HOSTEL GHOSTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 746, 19 February 1910, Page 13

HOSTEL GHOSTS.

STEAHQE DOtNGS IS A WELSH INN/ 2. .CONSTABLE'S BEPOBT. ' A quaint talo of a spook' comes from the small Carmarthenshire .village of Llanarthney, and in this case the ghostly visitant seems to be peculiarly vicious, missiles being hurled through the air by an unsoon hand. The mysterious happenings which have terrified tho peaceful villagers have taken place at the Emlyn Arms Inn, and a local correspondent says appearances . go_ to show that this oldfashioned hotel must either be haunted or that an exceedingly, marvellous, conjuror has been, able .to completely defy police and other detection. -

One night just after , closing the inn, Mrs. Meredith, the .landlady, whose husband was. spending his holidays in North Wales, was pelted with stones aa she was tending the cattle;' She attached no significance to this, but when her servant girl, aged thirteen, who- bore her company, responded to a knock at tho front floor, a /candle-stick ,:came whizzing through the passage. 'Tet not a Boul. was seen > either in' or about; the premises.

TRAMPING OF "PADDED FEET." ; More mysterious still, various missiles irare presently hurled from eveiy quarter of. the kitchen, and, terrified in tne'extreme, Mrs.; Meredith shrieked for help. Mrs. Jenkins, wife of the' villago constable, and; her sister-in-law, llisa Jenkins, hurried to the house of mystery at mididghti but. so eerie were the antics of the presumed visitant from the spiritual world, that' neither dared ,entcr the' inn, nor would others venture therein, until the arrival at 2.30 a.m. of Police-Constable Gwilym Jenkins, who had cycled through tho colliery districts on duty. He believed that his ; ;services, were needed to arrest a burglar, but search where and hew he would, no person could be found, although: he; heard the tramping of. "podded : feef'-ori'the stairwayand in the upper chambers. Bottles fell at his feet and were smashed, says'the correspondent. A heavy black varnished stone ornament "jumped off" a bedroom mantelpiece and foil close to.. his head a« he was looking under. the bed for a burglar, and stones which' had-' been immersed in 'white' 1 lime went, hither and thither 'in most - inconceivable .. 'fashion, whilst teapot cover? and covers of other things came hurtling down, to the astonishment of the constable, his wife, sister-in-law, post office' officials, and the occupants of the inn. . • •

SIMPLY INEXPLICABLE. The spectators,' it is said, saw. a . policed box fall from, Mr. Meredith's waist-' ooat, which was hanging; in the' kitohen.' This .waistcoat was ironed by Mrs., Meredith on .the previous evening, and, she oould not have failed to -notice the box had. it been, there : thfeh.. ..i.t, 5.30 <in the morning, mistress and.maid sought.refuge in tho .house; of - a' mason employed by Earl :Ca.wdor, who .owns the ■ inn, but wljeii they'returned the following morning with the constable tho mysterious happenings l were .resumed. These occurrences .were witnessed by other people, inoluding the vicar and eur*te of ; the: parish. ' Constable Jenkins, who hasbeen in the Carmarthenshire constabulary about nine. years, . asserts that tois narrative is true in; detail,.and' that it is; not the. imaginings of; Christmas hilarity, for the spectators: were perfectly sober, and ho is a strict teetotaller himself. ■ . 1 ■: ' The whole affair is simply inexplicable ; The oonstablo had. the :house surrounded; by workmen, and, had a :burglar been, at the inn he would havo been captured. , '■ The' "London Evening News," oomihenting on; tho. story, says:—Poor Mrs.; Mere-, dith, a tenant of Lord Cawdor, has taken refuge in another. house (owned: by that nobleman; and; is resting thero in uneasy, repose, whilst :P.C; Gwilyin Jonkins cob--tinues ,his\Tesearohes. - We should like to add that a faint, voice was; heard moaning for w " (here dying away), but; as thii .tale;is woidaro' not embroider .it.. May y it' .not be, how-' over, that. obsesscd ;by. thi Eadical papers, so popular in the Infernal Regions, the ghosts of Duncan, Banquo, and the injured Meance may be, beht. on' loworing the land ■ values of the Thane of Cawdor?.