WAILS FROM GRAVEYARD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 15, 18 January 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)

WAILS FROM GRAVEYARD.

CAT'S VIGIL OVER BODY OF HARRY PACE. Eerie wails coming from the graveyard in the little village of Clearwell, near Coleford, Forest of Dean, led the more superstitious villagers to believe that supernatural forces were at work. The wails started soon after Harry Pace, the Fetterhill sheep farmer, was laid to rest nearly two years ago. And the sound seemed to come from the direction of his grave. The "ghost," however, was found to be merely a little tabby cat which has kept vigil over the grave since the date of "burial. • The cat refused to be caught until it became exhausted and was practically reduced to a skeleton. Sympathetic residents took milk to the cemetery, but the cat refused to touch it until the people had gone away. „ , .... Up to this day it still continues to visit the cemetery, where it spends many hours during the day, and Wails piteously at times over the grave of the sheepfarmer. Love of dumb animals was one of the chief characteristics of Harry Pace, whose death from arsenical poisoning was investigated in a case.which aroused nation-wide interest. ■