Show A GHOST A AT T NOONDAY i t the spirit of a dead felon who re turned lunic dlo to assert lib ills innocence cence we wa have received the tha following is trod inary narrative from ft a correspondent pon dent 1 1 fur r whose rood good falth faith and professional acuteness acut enesi of observation we can vouch ile he substantiates h his Is at story 0 ry with full details of detec n names line an and d place 1 which however to for r the mke make of the survia arsho does n not of wish to be without ally further preface wo we lay his letter before our readers As my wife and I 1 were sitting at t with it if aest whom I 1 will call mr A then on a 11 visit for the first time to lo our house and neighborhood our mald malde servant ervant passed out of afie loomon buom on her way to the kitchen As she closed cloned the door mr dir A startled me by baying 1 I saw the tha spirl tota ram man following that woman w who he as he pawed said distinctly in my mj bell r I 1 n g god ju d go th not aa ma n judieth jude jud geth oth I 1 was innocent of the murder delfor for which I 1 have been hanged I 1 was there hut but I 1 did not strike the blow ti what la Is it like I 1 asked ile ija replied by describing a young irishman whom lat I 1 at once recognized as ad the husband ofay domes executed oo on the charge of murder mr A it a complete stranger st in the local locally lyo had only met me for the first time two tto days before end and be was totally ignorant len orant orthe of lie crime crima la in which my servant wits WH ile BO deeply interested te for obvious reasons ls subject wall waa noves novel alluded to to la our household howe hold where the tha widow was regarded with fueling feelings of syn pitt liy which led us torvold Rs much lh its as possible nil all reference to her husbands fate I 1 had previously good reason to doubt whether tho the evi ci derice dance against him J justified his empett tiou ue he hall had died protesting protest lne ills his innocence ills wils wife and friends were firmly convinced that RI though he had find been in the fight it wits was not by it hid Is hand band the fatal blow had ben debilt lo in addI addition tIou to this I 1 had gond reason to believe that the real murderer was wai still 1111 at large you can easily eally imagine my astonishment when hon mr A thus suddenly ventured upon forbidden ground and abruptly declared dei that tho the spirit if a man who hild suffered buffered capital penalty penally and whose personal coincided with ili that 11 t of the unfortunate rr irishman ishman actually follow following itic the house proclaiming his innocence in accent w inaudible to me in my y guest declared were pertecta flu dible to him I 1 had heard that mr A had bad been u seer rie cr but I 1 was not a little startled at tills this striking illustration of ills his particular faculty I 1 remarked that it was very strange and informed him that the woman whom lie he had just bat seen for the first time with her ghostly companion was waa really the widow of a an executed felon some time afterward lie he exclaimed there lie he Is again repeating the same name words I 1 in tense ly interested by this sudden and a ap P N bently supernatural confirmation of my suspicious determined to put the of 0 my guest to what I 1 regarded as aa a crucial test I 1 told mr A that shortly afterward I 1 wits was going into the town find its as 1 I should be passing the spot where the he murder was committed perhaps hla his ghostly visitant might indicate the place where the dead man lay soma boma time afterward we started fur for the town when we left the house mr A remarked there he la Is following us alluding to tha spirit when via no had proceeded part of the way alog the tha road which was wai quite unknown to my friend I 1 made a detour to make a buil nesi call and went alone another street af mr r A following mi me just kia ii without it a word on my part we vire were turning out on the main login road mr A said the spirit la Is standing at the corner ile says we are ale not lot going the right wy way toward the place where the murder was committed find and which he hns has promised to point out to m me I 1 replied oh we shall come out in the main road by and by before we reach the spot we proceeded on about ft A quarter of a mile and having done my bust busl nebs apes and struck the main real road ogain which differed din ered I 1 may remark remi irk from none of the tha other roads wo we had tra trav fried vreed mr A declared there is that man just juist on there waltin z for us tp As we continued our walk I 1 purposely retrained refrained fro from m uttering utter ln a word or even from thinking as far as I 1 could about the murder oo do as to prevent any possibility of my companion obtaining any clew As we were passing through one of th the is lowest parts ot of the town mr A su suddenly d tells me m that 1 was here the murder wascom was coin it was just there pointing to the P place ace in the rood road where here the murder pd ed man fell ell I 1 see ace the hubbub and confusion rise up before mo me as a picture with the lh people round ile he however again tells me that he did not strike ills fital fatal blow lie ile does not excuse himself from being morally guilty as being bein mixed up with those who lie accomplished the death of the man but strongly maintains I 1 that he was not the murderer twill I 1 will only add la in le lation to the list last incident that mr A des described the exact spot where the murder was committed and the circumstances in connection therewith how con can you account for that mr A had never been bean in the town before he had never lived within a couple ot of hundred miles of it he hadid did w till within a day or two before he or ar rived that ho he would ever visit it h be could not by any possibility hav have known that the iho poor woman in ID my iny employ was the tha widow oral oa man who h 0 bla was wits hanged lie had IV interest ln in deceiving me nor ws 11 he concerned to prosecute to the rust matter ter any further jurth cr I 1 have in vain at tempted to account for his story atory nor can ion I 1 on any of the popular hypotheses explain to myown my own satisfaction how bow he saw that ghost at noonday that he did see eee it he assured me lue much to my surprise when no one expected any such revelation and whatever lie ho saw it certainly led him to the exact place e the baurder was committed 4 W ti |