HAUNTED BY HIS VICTIM.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1579, 8 June 1887, Page 2

HAUNTED BY HIS VICTIM.

Edward Unger, who was sent to Sing Sing for life a month ago for the murder of August Boble, is now In the hospital of the prison, a sufferer from nervous prost ration, and almost a maniao. He killed his room mate, out him up, and sent him away m a trunk. His physical strength before his trial was great, and his steadiness of nerve m Court was sur* prising, but his stamina is all gone, and he has become a miserable, cowering wreok. On his first morning m the prison he to.'d a keeper that he had been visited during the night by his dismembered vlotim, who had proceeded to recoaatraot himself la the terrified prisoner's presence. Of this delusion he oould not be disabused. He firmly believed it was reality. Every night It cams to him, and at the end of a week the superstitious oonvlot was delirious. In the hospital it has been the same with him, except when he Is kept under narcotic inflaence. Every night he sees the mangled pieces of his friend strewn about the room, where they He awhile inanimately} as | they did before he paoked them m the ! trunk, and threw the head into the river. Then the fragments bepin to quiver. Soon they move slowly towards eaoh other until they are m a ghastly heup. Next they adjast themselves into a human form. But the head is missing. At length that, too comes into the room, with its hair dripping with the water of the river m which it was thrown. With a horrible smile on its face it plaoes itself on the shoulders of the figure, and menaoes the murderer. Unger shrieks out at tbty point, and the apparition vanishes from his imagination. All efforts have failed to relieve him of these awful v'lions, and the prison physician advises hi) removal to the State asylum for lunatic criminals,