STRANGE RAPS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 190, 13 August 1928, Page 8

STRANGE RAPS.

EMPTY HOUSE MYSTERY. JJLTKD J; 1:11)K W ilg xj;\ Hi; 1- ()l;( ;< »T. Mysterious km>ek,nu- j:> an <■ i■: i»i \ house are intrijruiis;.' tin; residents <,: Bush Hill I'ark, J-Mniontoil. The story connected wit it this serted homo is reminiscent. «,[' SitiHouse in Dickens' "Creat Expect at inn- " in which the jilted Miss Ilavi-ham lived wearing always her wedding dn Exactly two } cars "Miss Mai.r.\ the last occupant, was f- =mit! dead In the house: she liad died >..nr<> w, ,k- before her body was diseoveved. i;!it there were no signs of foul play. No relatives could be traced. The kevs are held bv the coroner'- oliieer. and Miss Me(. lov s jewels and investments —totalling over £10111)— are held by the Treasury. Jt it said that Miss Met l,,y—like Miss Havjsham — received on the morning of her wedding day a letter fmni her lover saying that he had changed his mind anrl was going abroad. She w;i- brokenhearted. but could not. apparently. stifle her love. 'Roses, the favourite flower of her faithless lover, were the onlv blooms she would arrow in her irai'dev.: his photograph was ever on her wall, and it N believed that she left ' him all her pronertv. He cannot bo found. But neighbour*, say that a man driving a car lias recently visited the house. And the strange rappinrr® are said to come from the wall on which his grar> T ' " -d to hnnn r .