Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-06-20 | Page 3 | Fire Buck Shot at Farm Ghost

FIRE BUCKSHOT AT GHOST Wraith Causes Owner t to 0 Abandon Home Uncanny ny Actions GREAT BEND Kan June 20 By By The Associated Press His ancestral home Is not large larg enough for tor both himself and a ghost so Fred red Koett year old 41 old ear i farmer near wood Ellingwood Is preparing preparing ing to abandon to-abandon the place until the th I spook that has destroyed his rest for tor several months decides to de de- partI part partI I believe this fellow tellow wants me meto m e I to leave Koett said today Hes got something on Ills his mind and maybe that's It He wouldn't keep kee p I up his pestering me if ir It wasn't Ho He hangs pictures backwards blacked ed my hired mans man's eye opened the family bible changed the statute of the Virgin VJ ln Mary Iary Last winter we all saw him peer peer- peering peerIng peering ing in windows ws when but but when we e went outside we found no jio traces in the snow Climaxing months of hair rais rals- raising raisIng ing activities the ghost tonight fil filtered fil- fil II- II several charges charge of ot buckshot through his wraithlike form torm fired tIred from ambush by five embattled farmers and gently flitted away leaving no tracks or traces of ot blood Witnesses arc are ready to tomake tomake tomake make affidavits that the spook floated soundlessly over a six foot toot wire fence tence like lII e a a. slow motion moving moving movIng ing picture of or a pole vault J J. M. M I McGuire Koett's brother- brother law in-law of or Fort Scott Kan Itan and three young neighbors Intend to stay slay on the place and harvest the crops while Koett stays with his hires hire's relatives e in Rice county