Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 228, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1912 — “HAUNTED” HOUSE IS RAZED [ARTICLE]

“HAUNTED” HOUSE IS RAZED

M*ny Tenants Have Inhabited It, but the "Spirits" Have Driven Them All Out After a Short Time. Trenton, N. J.—Famous as a haunted house for 25 years, an old brick residence in this city, owned by Warren Quinn, is about to be torn down in the hope that its ghostly inhabitants will be driven out. A revival of the spirit manifestations, it la said, has determined the owner to raze the building. While the house has been Occupied despite the ghostly noises, the occupants have kept constantly changing, driven out. they say,' by ghosts. John Nickold and his family were the latest occupants. They were there considerably longer than any other tenants, but after ignoring tho strange

happenings for a time they fled and no one else would move in. Nickold declares that of late the manifestations have been of almost nightly occurrence. Sheets would -be pulled off the beds violently; the lamps left burning at night would be turned down mysteriously and then as mysteriously would bfe turned up so that the wicks would blaze. Footsteps would be beard In the attic daring the night; shades would be run up, apparently by ghostly hands, and clocks would be wound at all hours of the night and thrown with force to the floor. A nurse employed by the Nickolds remained in the house only a week because of the disturbances, and no other nurse could be obtained. It was impossible to keep a servant, and the members of the family got Into snch a nervous state that the least sound frightened them.