Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1914 — Ghost Brings Wagonload of Police to a House [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Ghost Brings Wagonload of Police to a House

PITTSBURGH, PA.—No character conceived in the fertile mind of A. Conan Doyle, no bandit of the time of the James brothers, no kidnaper of the type that purloined Charlie Ross, no bank burglar of the “good old days”

when bank burglary was a safe and sane pastime, ever proved more elusive to the officers of the law than the creature' who has terrorized a section of East Liberty and for whom a wagonload of police searched in vain. There are grave doubts in the minds of the authorities if the perpetrator of several scares in the Howe streetDenniston avenue section ever will be brought before the bar of justice. In the stillness of the midnight hour there was a shriek that aroused

slumberers in that usually quiet neighborhood. A telephone Call to the Frankstown avenue police station brought the patrol wagon and a detail of reserves. The officers found in a faint a young woman residing with her mother in a rooming house at Denniston and Howe/ She had been enjoying the balmy zephyrs of midnight on the veranda of the house. As she entered, so she told the police, she saw a white figure, with shawl over its shoulders, pass the hallway. That was all she remembered until she was resuscitated. Then, upon peeing a great, blue-coated officer standing near her, she shrieked and fainted again. The officers searched the house from cellar to roof and back again, but nary a trace could they find of the ghost There was a decidedly active breeze stirring throughout the East end that night Lace curtains, in their ghostly whiteness, flaunted startlingly from windows that had been left open. "We had a vague suspicion as to the identity of that ghost,” remarked Police Captain Ford, "but we never can hope to get him behind the bars."* “Whom do you suspect?" “Old Man Boreas," replied the captain with a smile, “the most notorious and vigorous of all who*perpetrate ghostly outrages.”