Show DUCK PLAYS GHOST Fowl o In a fled Bed and Thoroughly Alarms a Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago cazo lIou Household Visions of spirits and spooks created A 5 commotion in the home of Mrs PaulInc PaulIne Pauline Paul Paul- ine Inc South Canal street Chicago during a greater portion portio of Friday n. n night For several hours neighbors neighbors neigh neigh- bors and friends crowded into the rooms and distinctly heard what appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap to tobe be the smothered half quacking quacking quack- quack ing big of a aJ duck u Tb The house was searched thoroughly thorough Y but the origin of the tt H I I t r GHOST REVEALS ITSELF strange sounds could not be found Finaly the quacking was tr traced ced to Mrs sleeping room and here the thea a stricken awe neighbors gathered Still they could not lOt discover whence the noise proceeded Frightened children clung to the dresses of their mothers and would not go to sleep Finally Finay the police at the Maxwell street s station were notified and Capt Wheeler sent an officer to search for forthe forthe forthe the supposed gho ghost t. t The policeman strode in the bedroom tapped on the walls with his cl club h and anel defied the wraith to show w itself Still the sounds continued At search cleared up th the mystery Beneath Deneath a blanket blanket blan blan- ket on w was s found a live duck Further in investigation i n developed that William Connors of f West Vest Fourteenth Fourteenth Four Four- str street et had rushed rushed through the thc house early in th the he 7 day carrying three ducks which i it is said he had bad stolen from Jacob Solomon A poli chasing hir him and Connors concealed one of the ducks ducles beneath the blanket of the bed Connors says says says' the C Chicago Chron- Chron cle cle le was fined by J Justice Dooley after the court had been told all nIl about the supposed r. r |