| Show california HOSPITAL HAS A VERY UNCANNY VISITOR los angeles A more uncanny visitor than death whose silent en trance of its portals there Is not a day that falls to record has appeared at the county hospital according to inmates this weird apparition Is not the rider of the pal horse who Is wel come but a ghost which Is terrible the ghost of a man who died there months ago lawrence hanley the actor lawrence hanley in the wraith garb of the spirit world enacting the role of hamlet at midnight in the darkness of the corridor upon which opened the room where he died august 28 last lawrence hanley smoking a cigarette and leaning with one arm lansed upon thin air and with his feet crossed saying yes have another thanks the doctors und the nurses luh or YES ILL HAVE ANOTHER THANKS pooh pooh when they hear these re ports but doctors and nurses are of un superstitious fiber they believe in scalpels and saws and such obviously material things and if a ghost should appear to one he mient call it a areu h of smoke a shaft of moonlight or son e other easily explicable thing the nurse who was with lawrence hanley when he died II 11 S rea don when refused to discuss the alleged spectral manifestation mr rea don glared when he was asked if he had not chased the lumin ous j antom up and down the ball with A club to drive it from the build ing those to whom the specter la said to have appeared are II 11 hoes frank hartwell wd charles L morell they tell substantially the same story a as related by each without collaboration lab oration with the other it especially strange that a artory should be told of lawrence hanley lie knew more about ghosts perhaps thin any other patient who ever died there for hia long and brilliant stage career acquainted him intimate ti mate with shakespeare s ghostly company As hamlet and macbeth be had held communion with avenging spirits in the first year of his acting he had even impersonated banquot banquo s ghost and that 0 the danish king but the persons mentioned gave him a part more ghastly than any of these the eighth act in the human drama lawrence hanley s death was itself as tr alc as that of any character be portrayed for he died miserably the wreck of a man once fired with genius hauley s ghost Is said to have appeared a month after his death A luminous pearly vapor having the form of a roan emerged from the southwest room on the lower floor it was m opalescent apparition it wore a stiff straw hat set jauntily a light suit ana a cane it a ted down the long corridor with the se of a stride the tread of the actor upon the boards and walled ir a voice itself the ghost of vocal to morrow and to morrow and to morrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day and so on to the end he was hamlet mournfully reciting to die to sleep to sleep perchance perc hince to dream all of the great characters of his past he enacted he strode quickly forward they say made as it to draw a sword leaned hid chin upon his hand and mused beetling his brows until his eyes rioted with greater intensity threw bauc his head end laughed and then bowed and disappeared the last time these men saw thu spirit it was in a bibulous vein it stood long it a bar of its fancy and down glasses of nothing until its wraith form began to caig ger it sang a song of revelry then stopped short straightened up and said I 1 must go home hospital authorities do not attempt to account tor the weird stories which have circulated except to say that they maist have emanated from the distorted fancy of some insane patients |
