POLICE GHOST HUNT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1498, 22 July 1912, Page 6

POLICE GHOST HUNT.

INNOCENT CAUSE. WHITE CAT!., COAT, AND LIGHTS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Auckland, July 30. Police investigation (says the "Star") has very effectively exploded the Kingsland "ghost" story. Considerable publicity was given to the affair, two special cases being cited. In one instance it was stated that a voting My had been awakened in Iter bed by the flashing of a. light outside her window, and, on looking out, had beheld an awe-inspiring spectacle in white, wheroupm she had rushed back to h?r bed and bidden her terror under the bedclothes. *"

The second case quoted was one in which two young women were scared by a mysterious figure in white, which confronted them as they wended their way homewards lato at night. ' Constable Wainhouse, who has charge of the Kingsland district, has made a thorough inquiry into the affair, and states that he lias foiled absolutely to find any person living in the district who had th'o iirst-iuentioned experience.

In the second case, it transpires that, on Monday evening, a taxi-cab, white in colour, had taken a. passenger down Third Avenue. When returning, it was necessary to traverse a road which is i.n process of formation, and the car was so much humped about that both the acetylene lamps went out. The driver, who was wearing a white motor-coat, got out of the ear, and, in the rain, had some difficulty in relighting the lamps. As the illumination was effected, two young woiiien on the other side of the street screamed, and appeared to be badly frightened, running up the street quickly without waiting to investigate. The police report from lungshind further state.s that nothing in the shape of a "ghost" has been discovered, though the streets have been patrolled nightly, and investigations made. On the evening of • Monday,, however, the constable saw two Fijian*, one dressed in white and the other with a'loiuelotb surmounted bv a dark jacket. "It is pointed out • in the report that, i at the tiinis mentioned in the first complaint there is a constant stream of people oa the streets coming from business, and it is eerbin that somebody else would have 'ecu "it," had it ten an apparition of th« character stated. Yet from no soulco an corroboration or substantiation' of th« complaint be obtained. Mk for. i'fiotrii" s.er£?d hoy