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Show JI Tl WALL Spooks Hold Midnight Revels in a Boise House. A MESSAGE WRITTEN IN LETTERS OF FIRE. Doors Eattled, Chairs Moved and Loud Tappings Were Heard. DANIEL O'BRIEN IS NEARLY RENDERED REN-DERED INSANE. An Uncanny Something That Is Sow the Talk of the Entire City Over Thirty People Sow Have Proof of the Strange Visitations I'nable to Solve the mystery, Rut Satisfied Satis-fied That the House Is Haunted Strange Doings. Boise, Idaho, Nov. 16. Special. Boise City has the distinction of containing a haunted house. ' The house is located on Eighth avenue, between State and Washington streets, and is at present occupied by Jesse Black, the proprietor of the Free Coinage cigar store, and his family. Daniel O'Brien, a cigarmaker in the employ em-ploy of Mr. Black, has a room in the house. Last Saturday night about 10 o'clock .Mr. O'Brien was asleep in . bed. He suddenly awoke and seemed aware that some one else was in the room. He called out, but received re-ceived no response, and finally went to sleep again. In a few moments he awoke with a start. This tim the door was rattling violently vio-lently and one of the chairs was being moved. . A something whispered to the man that the room was occupied by spirits from the other world who desired to converse with him. He thought he was the victim of nightmare and tried to go to sleep. He could not do so, but lay awake, in the dark, covered with cold perspiration, listening to the rattling of the doors and other noises. So he spent the niffht. The next morning (Sunday) he related his experience to Mr. Black. Mr. O'Brien was so sincere about the matter, however, that Albert E." Werner, a young man well known in . this city, told him he would -spend the night. with him and see Jot himself what was the matter. . - , . ... WRITING OST THaW Ait. '; J. " , Sunday night about 10 o'clock Mr. Werner was. suddenly awakened by- O'Brien, the latter being paralyzed with fear, the cold sweat standing all over hla body. Mr. Werner Wer-ner heard the door rattle several times, and then his attention was called by O'Brien to a bright zig-zag light on the wall. He told O'Brien he could not see it, but after looking look-ing intently for some time at the spot indicated, indi-cated, he saw the light. It resembled someone some-one writing on th wall with a trail of tire. The lamp was burning brightly all the while. Werner, thoroughly - alarmed, called Mr. Black, who came into the room. O'Brien told them the spirits had told him his dead sister would write him a letter on the wait. He pointed the soot to Mr. Black and he, too, was horrified at beholding the fiery thing, The men moved into another room and spent the balance of the night, although sleep was out of the question. O'Brien would, so be said, see horrible faces, and it was thought for a time he was going crazy. TT a ura nupfao H tiiAn1 V nwsvnr 1. 3 tUUU).U AVI f. .11111, U U IT .. .1 He was perfectly rational, however. OTHERS ARB CONVINCED. Monday about thirty persons, including Mr. Black and his family, gathered at,-the latter's residence. All the parties are perfectly per-fectly reliable and include some of our leading lead-ing business men, who will vouch for what follows. At intervals loud tapping would be heard in different parts of the room. They were very audible. Twice Mr. O'Brien entered the bedroom with others. Strange noises were heard. Of a sudden O'Brien would point in some direction, a look of horror on his face. He said a face appeared several times. The last time he entered the bedroom bed-room was after being entreated for some time by those anxious to see something. He entered hesitatingly. Noise were heard by all. Soon he began trembling, and finally, with a yell of horror, bounded out of the room. Those present were unable to account for the state of affairs, but they are aware of the fact that O'Brien is suffering untold agonies from what he sees. The faetathat Messrs. Werner and Black witnessed 'the strange handwriting on the wall and those who were present last night saw and heard what they did, elves credence to the affair, otherwise it might be supposed O'Brien was the victim of some terrible hallucination. ' A prominent man in this eity who does not want his name . mentioned recently moved from the house. He said doors were continually opened without any visible aid, and there was at times an oppressive something some-thing about the house that made it intolerable. intolera-ble. He frequently heard strange noises. m m |