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Show puncTi v poire Siimim bnlbAuU Knocking and Screeches Terrorize Entire Neighborhood Neigh-borhood CHK'AOc i t irt. A Despite a ipe-1 elal guard of police, the presence of a squad of newspaper reporters and photographers and more than l.OOu curious persons, there was a repetl- i tlon early Tuesday nlht of the weird knocking and screeches which terror- lzcd an i n 1 1 re neighborhood on the : North Side Monday night. When the blood-curdling cries first Issued from the purple shadows of the quiet residence district around. Clefton and Seminary' avenues Monday Mon-day night, a riot call brought special quads of blnecoats scurrying throughout the district The moonlight moon-light had later transformed the famll-lar famll-lar landscape into one of unreality, and the unearthly moaning, rising to j a screech that chilled the marrow of the policemen's hones, kept up a!l ! luring the night . In the garish light of the day it seemed like u bad dream, but at sunset sun-set Tuesday little I quads of patrolmen patrol-men began filtering through me neighborhood again determined to solve the mystery. Tbey were fol-' lowed by crowds of sight-seers. And ' then as the moon rose the weird I clamor begun again. Tho patrolmen set systematically to work and searched even house In a square ! block, but all In vain Late at night ' th "spook" was still making the wcl-l kin ring and defying all efforts to- 1 ward Its detection. The nerve-racking shrieks were i nrled now and then by mysterious rapplngs or thuds, described by a po-I lce lieutenant as resembling the I sounds of padded bricks dropped o.xl empty coffins After a brief period of quiet ended Jy the horrid banshee's cry, one of the watchers, confused by the shi-dows shi-dows cast by the full moon, emptied his pistol at a fancied spectral shape, which proved" to he only a shadow. I The erowfts scattered at the sound of the shots and the policemen In tiiel district were ordered not to use their pistols under any circumstances, but to grapple barehanded with the "syook ' on sight.' After a scream more ghastly than usual, the bluccoats beat on the foncc with their nightsticks and Then Investigated the vvoodsheds and dog kennels, but found nothing and the neighborhood composed Itself to sleep. "I guess we laid It all right." renin re-nin rkeil the sergeant as he departed with his force Hut a half hour later another call summoned the police, who then settled set-tled down to an all-night vigil. |