Show GHOST PICTURE CAUSES TRAGEDY woman Is driven to divorce and death by freak of doctored photograph SAW WORK OF SPIRITS ardent believer in spiritualism takes take her own life after likeness of husbands first wife reap pears in photograph topeka kan how a ghost picture was the cause of 0 a domestic separation and subsequent suicide an example of tile the effect often produced by a freak practice frequently engaged in by professional photographers lit Is related in an article in the topeka dally daily capital F 0 wll lard a photographer tells the following farly early in ills his experience as a photographer said mr willard Wll lard he was working in a big establishment in the east which made a specialty of retouching and reprinting old photographs or chro chiomos ch romos one day a middle aged irish woman came to the shop she had been married recently she bhe said to an irish ward politician whose first wife had been dead for soine same years the present wife was excitable and high strung all efforts to get a good picture ot of her husband had met with III fortune she complained what she wanted was a copy of an earlier photograph of her husband arm around brides neck there was one drawback the early photograph was taken short shortly ly utter after her husband had been man married led the first time ills arm aria was about ills his brides neck she bile explained that she wanted the bride removed moved le her husbands hand and brought brou glit back in front of him with no suggestion of en folding another woman in its embrace the photographer set to work and in a few days sent the woman a very good print of lier her husband without the first bride and with a new arm aria cleverly pointed painted into the picture cletur in about six she months he ral astonishment that tha t the the woman had left tier her husband who later secured a dl di 41 aLo looka okill sho she cried ashes C coming om ing bacal ashes she coming bacal 11 vorce then on the licely of tile separation and divorce he read of the sul suicide of the woman ile he did not know for several weeks what was the cause of the suicide then he be saw the irishman and asked him about it it was all caused by that you made for her tile politician explained pla ined right after the p picture I 1 was made my wife became interested in spiritualism believed she was coming back then one day she come came screaming fed earning into the 11 vine living room and dragged me into the parlor 1 look V 1 she cried coming back I 1 ashes coming back 11 I 1 1 I looked and there on oil the which reposed on the parlor casell way was the faint outline of another form sitting beside tile me every day she watched the ure it was uncanny up canny As em each 1 d div h y 11 passed aasel the outline of my first alfe became more distinguishable I 1 sprouted spi another arm anil in ili the picture which seemed to reach leach out toward boivard my first wife my illy wife declared it was a visita imitation of tile the sahit of ray iny first wife re ic turning from mother another world to point out tile the sin of remarriage then she left ule inc after that lt it was a succession of weird spiritualistic stances with her ber until she became unbalanced on oil the subject time passed and I 1 obtained it a divorce dt voice then one night I 1 learned that she had been attending a sen nee during which slie site believed belli eved my illy first wife a appeared P and condemned lier her for ing me As nn mi upshot ups liot of tills this deanee she bhe killed herself the story except that I 1 burned the picture |