Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-08-24 | Page 8 | Haunted=House Mystery Reported

HAUNTED-SiODSE MYSTERY REPORTED Newton. N. J.. Aug. 24. A haunted house mystery is occupying the attention at-tention cf Sheriff Harris and hl3 deputies depu-ties here George Dunlap, a wealthy farmer, reported yesterday that for two months his big colonial farmhouse farm-house has been haunted and he aud hs wile driven almost frantic by rap-pings rap-pings and other weird noises and acts of .vandalism. He s"ld pieces of clothing cloth-ing had Irt'Cn cut in places canned goods had been spilled and his rubber rub-ber boots, which he leit In the kitchen, kitch-en, had been thrown Into a cistern. On four occasions articles had been thrown down stairs when no one was on the upper floor and later three fires had been started In the house. Mr. Dunlap's stories of tiie strange happenings In the old mansion are corroborated cor-roborated by a score of neighbors. The sheriff, after a preliminary Investigation, Inves-tigation, arrested a female relative of Dunlap's. but she denied any knowledge knowl-edge of the ghostly doings, and a further fur-ther Investigation is being made.