Show california HOSPITAL HAS A VERY UNCANNY VISITOR 1 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 in maag th s weird apparition Is net the rider of the nal 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 th 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 saving yes have another thanks the doctors and the nurses 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 mate and it a ghost should appear to one he mient call it a wrea h of smoke a shaft of moonlight or some other easily explicable thing the nurse who was with lawrence hanley when he died H S rea don when interviewed refused to discuss the al eged spectral manifestation mr rea don glared when he was asked if he had not chased the lumin ous p antom up and down the hall with club to drive it the build ing tho e to whom the specter Is said to have appeared are willis H hoes frank hartwell and charles morell chev tell substantially the same story was related by each without collaboration lab oration with the other it ef ms especially strange that such a tory story s should be told of lawrence hanie he knew more about ghosts perhaps thin any other patient who ei er d ed there for his long and brilliant stage career acquainted him intimate ti mate with shakespeare s ghostly campat As hamlet and macbeth be had held communion with avenging spirits in the first year of his a ting he had even impersonated banquot banquo s ghost and that of the danish aug but the persons mentioned gave him a part more ghastly than any of these the eighth act in the human rama lawrence hanley s death was itself as tr alc as that of any character he portrayed tor he died miserably the krecl of a man once fired with genius hauley a ghost Is said to have ap pearci a month after bis death A luminous pearly vapor having the form of a man emerged from the sout room on the lover floor it was an opalescent apparition it wore a stiff straw hat set jauntily a light suit ana carried a cane it fl abed down the long corridor with the semblance of a stride the tread of the actor upon the boards and walled ir a voice itself the ghost of tn vocal to morrow and to and to morrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day and so on to the end he was hamlet mourn fully reciting to die to sleep to sleep perchance to dream all of fie great characters of his past he enacted he strode quickly forward they say made as it to draw a sword leaned his chin upon his hand and mused beetling his brows until his eyes plowed with greater intensity threw bak his head nd laughed and then bowed and disappeared ane last time these men saw the spirit it was in a bibulous vein it stood long it a bar of its fancy and tossed down laseen glasses of nothing until its wraith form began to stagger it sang a song of revelry then stopped short straightened up and said I 1 muot go home hospital authorities do not attempt to account for the weird stories which have circulated except to say that they must have emanated from the distorted fancy of some insane patients |