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Show A MURDEROUS APPARITION. Two boys, each about 13 years of age, got badly scared on Saturday night last. They had been put in the city "jug" for fighting, and on that night were placed in separate rooms - one below and the other in an upper "cage." About 7 o'clock that night the boy below set up the most unearthly screaming and was soon after joined by his former antagonist a story higher up. They screamed and kicked at their prison doors for a considerable time, before the officer in charge emerged from the Court House and went into the jail to see what was amiss. By this time a crowd of persons had gathered around the jail and were watching the frantic gestures of the youth lodged upstairs, who was clutching at the iron bars of the window and yelling as loud as his lungs would let him. As soon as the officer entered the jail, he found both boys pale with fright; they pleaded to be taken out - anywhere rather than that place. They had both seen a ghost - the boy below had first seen it walking toward him with a long bladed knife clutched in his hand; then the boy upstairs had received the same visitation, but as a harbinger of the approaching ghostly visit he has first seen a broom that stood against the wall of the room he occupied, cutting certain peculiar capers. The terror of the urchins was so great and evidently real - so the officer thought that he was convinced the boys were not putting up a job on him and he removed them to his own house where they still remain. Nothing but physical force could induce the youngsters to go back to their cells. They tell, with bated breath, and pallid cheeks, the awful appearance of that terrible spectre with the long bladed knife, and are sure that he meant to do them bodily injury by the threatening gestures the apparition made as he appeared to approach them. Some of the knowing ones are positive that the walking ghost was the spirit of the departed Wallace Wilkerson, returned to earth to warn wicked boys against the direful consequences of fighting. - Territorial Enquirer. |