GHOST STORY.
A curious ghoet story attaches to the Devonshire home of the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe. A former lady of Edgciunbe —the family has been famous in the West fountry for six centuries—fell into a trance, was mistaken for dead, and was buried in the castle vault. At midnight a servant opened the tomb to steal her rings, and in doing so awakened her. When she sat up in her coffin, the man fled, a shrieking maniac, and threw himself into the sea. The lady lived for many years after her terrible ordeal. The shade of the thief (according to the "Liverpool Post") etill haunts the ecene of his crime.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 305, 27 December 1939, Page 9
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111GHOST STORY. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 305, 27 December 1939, Page 9
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