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Show SHILOITS HAUNTED HOUSE JINXED SINCE BEARING "13" a . . . . One Woman Murdered There, Another Died After Auto Accident Nearby. Shlloh, Pa. The wrath of the hoodoo hoo-doo has descended again on Sblloh's "bannted house." Believed by auperstitlous folk to have been JInxed by a tenant'a prank that Inspired him to paint the number 13 on the mall box In front of the place 20 yeara ago, the "haunted house" haa been a borne of mystery since. The 13 bas atayed on the mail box. I The man who painted It there still rie-j rie-j livers mall at house No. 13. But tenants ten-ants have come and gone two of them to come no more. One wua the mailman's wife, Mrs. Archibald Slilmp Lupton. She was murdered, ner slayer was hanged. Another was Mrs. Leila MInch, wife of Walter L. Minch, who moverfonto tbe farm In the spring. She dlt'd a few i w 1 daya ago In the "haunted house" aa a result of an automobile accident nearby. near-by. Lupton looks askance at No. 13. So doea MInch. So do many others, who view with alarm the mystic numeral aa a symbol of misfortune. The first of fate's freaks at house No. 13 came soon after Lupton Jocularly Jocular-ly designated the mail box with painted paint-ed numerals. Frank Rayslnger, a farm hand, came upon Mrs. Lupton as she was Ironing In the kitchen. There was a quarrel, full details of which never were divulged. Rayslnger seized a shotgun and pumped death at the woman. He (led but wus soon captured and eventually banged. Lupton moved awny. Other tenants, who stayed but briefly between Inter-vela Inter-vela when the "haunted house" waa unoccupied, added to Its ill reputation. They reported queer noises, unbear- . . - - .- . - able loneliness, echoes of iiiiStfK" wben no one waa near in qii.-inei.f-A |