Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1915 — Tales of GOTHAM andother cITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Tales of GOTHAM andother cITIES

Philadelphia Ghost Has Fondness for Jewels PHILADELPHIA.— An old, ivy-covered mansion in Philadelphia, which for years has borne the reputation of being haunted, has once more come to the front as the council chamber for wanderers from the realm of spirits. Miss H. Maybard White, an artist,

who has lived there Just to show that she does not believe in ghosts, has never been able to keep colored help because they said they saw night prowlers gliding silently across shining floors. Persons whom she had there as guests have quickly gone home after hearing strange noises like the slow tramp of hundreds of persons and the wail of a child. Her latest guest Miss Netty Barry, deserted the mansion when an unprincipled

••han’t” robbed Miss White of fI,OOO in Jewels. Miss Barry Insists she heard the ghost walk, heard the swish of its garments. With chattering teeth, she fell limp in a chair. A few minutes later the noises died away. When Miss White arrived she made search and found that her jewels were missing. Miss Barry Is confident the noises she heard were not those of a human being. Four times Miss White has been robbed and each time her heirlooms and Jewelry seemed to attract the eye of the burglar, whether he be a “spook,” as supposed, or a masked human robber. Years ago an unhappy girl, a bride of but a few months, shot herself as she sat in the spacious dining room of this house. She had been a “sacrifice upon the altar of love.” Her parents had forced her into a loveless marriage with a rich man aqd she sought death for freedom. Now, the story goes. Just as the last stroke of twelve booms across a sleeping city, a tall, stately figure clothed In white, exhaling an icy breath, appears In the dining room.