Show THE LATEST GHOST STORY A marvellous marcellous MARV ELLOUS TALE thaw THAT THEY wiley TELL JELL IN HAVANA A large audience assembled yesterday afternoon in the harvard rooms roams to bear hear about the wonderful twitch ti witch of havana rk a pretty village eighteen miles from elmira new york dr J B newbrough of west thirty fourth street who lately made a visit there told the following ghost stories mrs airs peter compton Comp ton toD the wife wire of an invalid husband and mother of seven children is descended from froni the old farmers of havana a well weil known and not rich yet respect a ble file stock A woman of w sound arld un cultured intellect she married a carpenter and builder tm i ilder lider and on his sperm permanent anent fallu faliu failure re in health fourteen teen years ago and their suase quent destitution desti tu tion of or other she supported stio ported him ant and their n numerous u menous lia lla iia erous enous children by washing the clothes loth iii iki and scrubbing the houses of lin len her heigh neighbors bors 1 two amri Compton was a medium of the most wonder work ing kind ind jerown her own body changes into str strange irge ruge other and sometimes beautiful fo I 1 bodies according te whatever spi lit it takes posses possession klon kion of her she may be fastened in a cabinet in inana any ady manner the cords are arelous loos ioos ened nul nut cut or untied the nails are taken out and a new being wanders forth man woman or child ancient sage or modern savage and the new person walks about talks can be felt of or shaken hands with patted on the shoulder and meanwhile there is not on this earth to bo be found the tho body of mrs birs peter compton the c cabinet abinet is empty no nd kirs peter compton or her clothes dr newbrough procured some i shoemaker thread and theman thoman tile tilo man who was waxing the ends eno for him said paid they would be of no use nse for tor or she was possessed of a devil dr newbrough used them however he also procured nails without leads heads and so senino fine that pincer sf could not got get hold of them and with them closely nailed her ber gown gorji all around the bottom to tb the floor out of the tho cabinet walked a strange and fine lady of different stature complexion complex ibn and lanneis from the plain the homely washerwoman moman woman who a few moments before was nailed to the tho floor in ili the alpaca gown dr lar newbrough rushed to the cabinet it was empty his nails were nowhere visible and and his waxed ends had also evaporated the new ladys dress wih waa a brown summery texture that looked as though it ml might have been made on a material loom dr newbrough said to the ghost kind lady I 1 have a pair of remarkably mar kably sharp scissors in m my pocket will you oblige me by a allowing me to clip a souvenir from your robe tho beautiful being smiled on him graciously but answered nothing to wear aly ily my medium has but ono gown if you cut a piece out there will be a hole in it and she will be entirely destitute but persisted the doctor 1 I will see that she has money to buy at iother another gown ah my dear sir sadly answered the beautiful spirit perhaps you would but I 1 do not know it for mr thir olcutt was horo hero and dr storer of boston was here and they both and many others said sald that they would do something to relieve the poverty of our medium but they have not and I 1 cannot let you cut a piece out and make a hole in her only gown after the beautiful lady had I stepped away and after a six foot t all tall ghost had bad come and gone and no more ghosts would be evoked dr newbrough again inspected inspected inspect el the cabinet there sat the homoly and motherly mrs urs compton with the waxed ends all rigidly fast and her alpaca dress nailed to the thi floor again tho the fine little nails being with almost perfect ex exact exactness actress actu ness ess driven into the tho holes they had bad previously occupied mrs sim yim compton ilas has lately been assisted iss isted the overseers of the poor for the county for these changes to which her body has been subject during two years have ruined her health and in addition to being unable to work the reputation of being poss possessed hessed by spirits has deprived her of her former employers pl the people of the town say nothing against her except that eliat she is a sorceress the lettla children had mended tb their thein ein eln clothes with yarn and with twine or with whatever they could got get A mortgage on their house added to other obligations harat harms harys sed sd them with debts amounting to nearly and the prospect of the county poor house bouse for fon a more permanent home dr newbrough announced e 1 that lie he raised for the poor family before he be left havana ant and from the meeting yest yesterday erlay mor morning ning ding in republican hall 52 51 91 one of his hearers asked whether the persons in havana who contributed tri buted the were infidels I 1 spi BPI or christians he answered that they were two infidels one and him bim himself sele seit three or four ladies ladles ad es passed among amon the audience and collected 52 A pillar of the society suggested that chat this collection and aud all ail ali alf others should be entrusted notto not to the solicitor hut but hut to the treasurer of the society in a regi regular ular w way ay was hooted by the audience who seemed to be familiar with dr newbrough and on being put to a vote 0 te was waa almost unanimously voted voted down money aloney has been now liow raised to nearly t he am ou on tj rit tit t of mrs MM com corn debts y N Y sun april 1 26 16 |