Extraordinary Ghost Story.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 466, 26 April 1890, Page 3

Extraordinary Ghost Story.

For some days the greatest excitemenb has existed in the neighbourhood of Marsh Lane, Wigan, which is a little street leading from Standishgate, The story is told by the neighbours A month ago a tenant of one of the cottages known as * Marget the Miser ’ died. The old lady, whose name was Margaret Simm, had attained the rips age of 85, and her reserved and eccentric manner had been the subject of comment during her lifetime. The house was to let after ‘Marget’s ’ goods had been removed, and owing to the convenient situation of the house it was readily taken up by a newly-married couple. The wife was alarmed the first night they slept there by a light tapping on her shoulders, and a ghostly appearance of a woman, who pointed to a flagstone in the room. Upon the stone being removed the following day it is asserted that £4OO was found by the new tenants, who being afterwards continually disturbed by the loud coughing and characteristic disturbances of spiritual visitahts, became alarmed and left the neighbourhood. The neighbours acquainted the relatives of the late occupant of the house, with the resulc that the matter has been placed in the hands of the police and a local solicitor. The police refuse to disclose any particulars up to the present, expecting to find the runaways, who are supposed to be in the town. The story is circulated by the neighbours, and several of them are prepared to corroborate the statements of the wife, who played prominent eature in this mysterious affair.