Show PRAMS PRANK LANDS JOKER JOK R IN JAIL North Norh Dakota Youth Faces Grave Charge Spook Rigged on Hal Ka Halloween loween Scares Girl Gir to Death Deth Minot N D July 8 Deputy Sheriff Sheri Williamson of Ames Aes county Fla Pin passed through here on his way to get Lester Swain who is wanted on a charge of having caused the death of ofa ofa ofa a young woman by fright Last hallo halio halloween halo a party was given at the home of Miss Ivy Nicholas a young lady in the southern city from which Sheriff Sherif Wil Williamson WI Williamson Hamson comes As is the custom on such occasions uncanny tales were told and ghostly pranks indulged in until the midnight hour Just as the time for breaking up the party arrived Swain is said to have de decided decided to perpetrate a joke upon Miss Nichalos The house in which the Nich Nicholas Nicholas Nicholas olas family lives is an old one full ful of rambling passages To enter Miss Nicholas sleeping s apartment It i was necessary to go through a long hall hail hal At the end of this hall hail hal is a sharp curve and here Swain arranged a dummy draped it i in white whiteland land nd placed on It I a hideous face fae smeared with wih phosphorus After their guests had gone Miss Nicholas and a younger sister went wen t up upstairs upstairs upstairs stairs to their room The minds of the young women were still filled fled with wit the ghost stories told during the evening and coming suddenly upon the ghost Swain had arranged they were terror stricken Miss Ivy screamed and fell fel to the floor foor while her sister ran for as assistance assistance assistance Doctors were summoned but Miss Nicholas went from one spasm into another for several days finally losing her reason altogether Last month she died Swain remained in Florida lorida until the strain upon his nerves became too great and then came west On 01 the young ladys death he was wa charged with be being being being ing the cause and a warrant issued for his arrest When Swain heard of it he telegraphed the te sheriff sherIf to come on as ashe ashe he was willing to return and would not resist extradition |