Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1914 — TOOK GHOSTS WORD FOR IT [ARTICLE]

TOOK GHOSTS WORD FOR IT

New York Woman Declares Father’s Spirit Told Her That Friend Had Purloined Ring. Through the proxy ,of Mrs. Ida Shapiero of Brooklyn, the ghost of her father appeared as a witness before Magistrate Miller in the New Jersey Avenue police court of that borough, aleging that Mrs. Clara Steiner, who occupies an apartment on the same floor with Mrs. Shapiero, had stolen a |l5O ring belonging to her. Mrs. Shapiero charged that Mrs. Steiner had visited her on July 3 and we# upward of an hour in her bedroom. which Mrs. Shapiero bad occasion to leave once or twice. In a drawer of the dresser reposed the ring. On July .4. when Mrs. Shapiero missed her ring she went looking for Mrs. Steiner, and learned she had gone to Paterson, N. J. “But sure as I am here, your honor,” said Mrs. Shapiero/ “the figure of my departed father appeared to me. 1 could see him as plainly as you your self sitting before me. He spoke slowly. He said: ’Mrs. Steiner bas your ring. She took It from a drawer in your dressing table. Take her into

court and recover your property.’” Whether Magistrate Miller pinned faith in the evidence of the astral father of Mrs. Shapiero or was unsatisfied with the answers made by Mrs. Steiner, who. among other things, declared most earnestly she did not steal the ring, does not appear as a matter of record, but he held her in 1500 bail for the grand jury. *