THE LATEST “TALL" STORY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1430, 13 December 1886, Page 3

THE LATEST “TALL" STORY

The following astounding story was published in ttie San Francisco Bulletii as a telegram from the town of Mockport, dated October 14ch inst last. VVe shoulo think the circumstance did cr--it ■ intense excitement ; and although it reads •■yarailr, ’ there may be more truth fn it than the “ quid nuncs” are prepared tc admit. We live in on age of queer eventualities. The telegram said : —Wilde Brough, twelve years Old, who created -xc'tement amorg superstitious paop e near T irlcck by apparently setting fi e to aii objects by his glance on Sunday last, and who. is held responsib e for the destruction of 9 000 dol, w rth of farm p-op-rty, has been expelled from the Madison . Oiuty school, ne?r Turlo k, on account of fis w'-tdorfol friaks. A tar Sunday’s fir-t Brough’s family re used have scything to do with him, believing h:m possessed of a de 11. Ihe boy *as taken in by a farmer tnd sent to school. On the first day there were five fires in the school—one In the centre of the ceiling, one in the teacher’s dost, ones in the teacher’s wardrobe, and two on the wall. The boy discovered all. and cr.ed from fright. The trustees met and expelled him that night One Turlock insurance agent has given notice that he will cancel all policies on property occupii d by the boy. The neighborhood of Tu lock is in a furore of excitement about the mystery