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Show 1 j l ni V f - :js i:r.!:c Discovery That Dears Out Claims cf Fa-n:us Fa-n:us HcdiuDs of Long Aso. V P-OCHESTm. N. T., Nov. :8.-A discovery dis-covery of (-pedal Interest to Spiritualists . ra teen rcaie ty Y'ii;;am H. ilyde, a reputable citizen of Clyde, in the former home of the Fox sisters, the founders of ( Fplrituallsm, In the hamlet of Hydes-ville. Hydes-ville. The little house In which the famous fa-mous A-aprlngs were beard In 1818 is tied fcyMr, Hyde. - ' ohool children playing- In the cellar fjund bonea and .upon Investigation Iyde found An almost entire human teleton between the earth and crum- j fcling cellar walls-, undoubtedly that of the wandering peddler, who It was alleged al-leged was murdered In the east room of the house and whose body was hidden In the cellar. ' Mr. Hyde has notified relatives of the Fox sisters and notice of the l9covery will be sent to the Nation-al Nation-al Order of Spiritualists, many of the ; members of that organization having made pilgrimages to the "Spook House" as it is commonly called. The finding of the bones In a Way cor-aoboratea cor-aoboratea the sworn statement made by Margaret Fox, April 11, 1847. The Fox sisters alleged that they were disturbed by rapplngs and finally by a system of signals, they got Into communication with the "Spirit." According to Margaret Mar-garet Ftox's statement, the "Spirit" was that of a peddler who described how he had been murdered In the house, his body being buried in the cellar. Many people said they also heard the rap-pings, rap-pings, but although the cellar had been dug up many times, no trace of the body was ever found until the crumbling crum-bling cellar walls revealed the skeleton discovered by Hyde. The name of the murdered man, according ac-cording to his revelations to- the Fox sisters, was Charles 'Ttofna, and the murderer a man named Beck. |