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Show ifWU RERS' t;3. CUJB Rat Steals GirVs Hair By FLOYD GIBBONS -Famous Headline Hunter. AND here's as strange a true tale, boys and girls, as Poe ever conjured up in his most imaginative moments. While the dub secretary jots down the name of Mrs. Ralph Johnson on my well-worn note book, I'll spin you the yarn. Incidentally, we've had a lot of hair-raising tales in this "thrill rnrnpr" of ours, but in this one Mrs. Johnson's hair not only rose on end, but it actually LEFT HER HEAD! Mrs. Johnson was unmarried and not yet twenty when her unusually terrifying experience took place, but, she says, if she lives to be & great-grandmother great-grandmother she will never forget It I can do her one better. I claim that when you've read It, you'll never forget it. I know I won't. Margaretta that was her name then used to sleep on a glass-enclosed sleeping porch and the head of her bed was close to a window. One night as she lay dreaming that a big man with a pair of scissors was chasing her to cut off her hair she wore it long then she felt a distinct tug on her scalp and woke up with a start. Hair Pulled Out by "Ghost" The sensation that her hair had been pulled was so strong that she turned on the licht and looked around the room. Seeing nothing alarming, however, Margaretta says, she decided that she had been dreaming the whole thing and went back to sleep. She took the precaution, however, of closing the window at her head, but as-nothing more happened that night she said nothing to her family about the Incident. The next night the same thing occurred. She was awakened from a sound sleep by a stinging sensation on her scalp exactly as though some one had pulled her hair. The feeling was so vivid this time that she knew she had not been dreaming, and she sat up terror-stricken in bed and called to her father. Well, you know how fathers are. Margaretta's was no exception, and he just laughed and said she had a good imagination and suggested that she go back to sleep. But Margie wasn't ready for sleep yet so she did a little sleuthing herself. She looked the room over very carefully not forgetting to look nnder the bed but all she could find out of place was a little boudoir doll that sue nad Jett sitting up on the dresser. The doll had fallen over on its side with its hair all disarranged disar-ranged and that doll had natural hair! Was She Mad or Dreaming? Well, sir, Margie began to think she was about due for the psychopathic ward. She glanced again at the window by the head of her bed. The window was closed, but Margie swears she saw the shade move! All thought of sleep driven now from her mind, the panic-stricken girl kept the light on and taking a book tried to read. Her hand strayed I to her scalp and she found it sore to touch. She lay there quiet as a mouse, listening for the slightest sound and wondering fearfully If the house were haunted. Suddenly Margie sat straight up in bed and nearly screamed the w.ndow shade at her head had rattled as though shaken by a terrific gale. But the curtains of another open window were not even stirring! stir-ring! Margie says she was now simply scared to death. The rattling of the shade soon stopped and she lay shiverin- as the long hours of the night slowly dragged on. Daylight-that solver of She Was Awakened by a Stinging Sensation. her body UnSTZZ' WheD SnMe ever "e in . In Which the Ghost Becomes Alive An ear-piercing scream-from inside the ha.' Margie was out of bed In a flash w . l"e "1USR concern for her mother Ti e n VD te''rr in her kitchen, where her mother had Zl S E W"S tl,e first to the her mother pale MnMaf bMast' nn" s,,e drawer. S flolt1hS her foot firmly against a closed w Vnth draWer WnS a grent b'S t! had ftgteWr " "l a OrrSVc?:: T WCird -Per-ence-to find strange it seems she was Ln to I'PPer''' kitChe"' but-It but-It is: S S00n t0 learn a" amazing fact Here s aTd r0fd tto ToToZS After that rat had been Tsna ched ', 7? E""'S' wl,,,e 1 You're .right! Margie's hair! . . . "cr aaugmer's hair and strand . m, V ouna 8trards of nest! Strands of th doll's hair lining the rat's ThanTsWMrs'S 3 ha""-raiser or nc in her hair! buTu" grandmother wearing n "rat" rodent and I hope It won't come V0S ' W.u Service |