Show HOST IN MISCHiEf lysterious Goblin at Work in Stettin Practical German Police However Ascribe Uncanny Proceedings to an Altogether Mundane Source Public Willing to Believe A stranger passing through Stettin recently would have thought that a socialist so-cialist demonstration or something equally dreadful was taking place The streets were closed to traffic by tho police and large crowds assembled In tho neighborhood manifested their dls pleasure at this step hour after hour by hooting and cat calls But all the pother was merely due to the anxiety of tho public to devote itself to a lit tlo practical psychical research For at the center of tho cleared area stood a haunted house and that was what tho people were trying to get at It appears that a ghost had been at work for a long time past though It only becamo an object of general In terest a couplo of days ago after It had been taken notice of In the newspapers news-papers The center of Its activity is the tenement of a laborer named Btichsler in tho Karkutschstrassc where it is reported to have brought many strange things to pass Cred ible witnesses saw cups and saucers pots and pans Jugs and bottles lift I themselves up without any visible assistance I as-sistance and sail through the window win-dow Into the courtyard Brooms hovered hov-ered In the alras if inviting to a trip to tho Brocken Cupboards llung open their doors and precipitated their contents con-tents on the floor These spectral activities seemed as is so often the case to center around a young girl tho 11year old daughter of the tenent a sickly and undergrown little thing who Is however credited by tho neighbors with wonderful mag magnetic netic gifts Tho story however which got about was that tho uncanny uncan-ny proceedings were the work of a hobgoblin who camo to tho house in 1 search of Frau Buchslers housekeeping housekeep-ing money and showed Its anger 1 in wanton destruction when It found that the key of her cash box was hanging around her neck and not to be got at It appears to be a fact that tho ghostly demonstrations were occasionally occasion-ally accompanied by the disappearance ot sums of money but for that there Is spiritual explanation of a different kindWhen When the police took the matter In f hand they were somewhat at a loss as to tho cause to follow One officer called upon Frau Buchsler to produce tho ghost or at any rate cause it to t give somo signs of Its existence Tho reply was that was impossible as she had done nothing to annoy the disturbing disturb-ing spirit What tho head and front of her offending had been she declined to say on the ground that the revelation revela-tion of such mysteries would bring untold un-told disaster upon her head Tho police however were not satisfied sat-isfied to let the matter rest there and their further inquiries convinced them that the mysterious doings were duo moro to sleight of hand than to spiritual spir-itual agencies They also learned that Buchsler had been spending a good deal of money at tho public house of late which perhaps might account for tho disappearances from his wifes cash box So the family have been informed that should the mischievous spirit recommence Its tricks they will bo taken Into custody under the gross nuisance clause which can be made to cover everything to which the authorities au-thorities object but is not specified In the Correspondence London Telegraph |