“TIPPED” BY A GHOST.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1012, 19 October 1912, Page 4

“TIPPED” BY A GHOST.

GAMBLER’S LUCKY WIN,

An extraordinary story of a gambling “tip” from the region of spirits is that of Signor Crotta, the stationmaster at Sicignano, near Naples. Signor Crotta (says a message on August 2 xst) speculated one franc at a weekly lottery, and now finds himself, in consequence, the lucky winner of ,£24,000. On learning the good tidings, Crotta’s first task was to telegraph to the directorate of the State railways his resignation. He i« a married man, and has a daughter who is a local schoolmistress.

The ex-station master is also setting apart a sum for masses ou behalf of his dead aunt, whose gnost, he avows, appeared to him in the early hours of the fateful morning, bidding him gamble on four numbers which she revealed to him, all of which eventually proved lucky ones. Mrs Morley, of Norton Maltou, Yorkshire, reported on August 19th, the disappearance of various articles of clothing, as if by ghostly agency. The ghost, first of all, took a fancy to her waistbelt, which, says Mrs Morley, she had laid on the floor. Suddenly, as if seized by that uncanny power which used to operate at Maskelyue and Levant's, the belt made a spring for the chimney, and was disappearing into its recesses when the alarmed owner snatched the end of it, and pulled it back. Later, a sheet, blanket, and a quantity of wearing apparel were missed, and found in the chimney in a sooty and charred condition. A lady’s night-dress, which had been missed, was also recovered from the chimney, with a large hole burned in it. A chimneysweep and a mason have tried to fathom the mystery, but have failed.

Yet another ghost story comes from Chicago. The owner of a house in South Oakley Avenue, in which a young woman had been murdered, protested against the assessment of the premises at ,£2,400, owing to the fact that the house had earned an unenviable notoriety for an unearthly visitant in the night.

He stated that ever since a mysterious murder four years ago he had been unable to let the house for more than a few nights, as all the tenants complained of being frightened out ot their wits by the awful spectre of a young woman in white cerements, who filled the air with her groans and shrieks, and called on them to revenge her murder.

The Board of Assessors therefore reduced the assessment by ,£Soo.