A VILLAGE MYSTERY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 498, 4 May 1909, Page 6

A VILLAGE MYSTERY.

. " t. WEED OCCURRENCES IN "HAUNTED" c j HOUSE. : Extraordinary interest is manifested in the 1 Country distnct suiTounding the town of Ec- £ cleshail, Staffordshire, in mysterious occur- 6 rences at.a house at Copmere, a little village f 60 mi ß miles distant from Eccleshall. Ihe village is very inaccessible, being miles s removed from a railway station, and the scene \ of the mysterious visitations is a house which .lor forty years has been owned and occupied „ by Mr. Richard Jones and his-wife—an ordinary country dwelling standing close to a bie 1 pool not far from a road. 6 o j past uncanny occurrences are reported to have been repeated almost daily 11 the last being on Saturday, March 13. When * Mrs. Jones and a fourteen-year-old girl who' has been living with her since the perplexing e M&iit began.were just about to sit down to o tea something came from "somewhere" and n smashed both their cups and saucers into many r pieces. , ■ ' a At the 6ame time—so the girl told a news- « , paper rop-resantative-a chair in'- the room sprang round and round on one leg. Frightened s beyond measure, _ they cried for assistance, t out when the neighbours came nothing coulH P be found to account for the affair 1 . Almost all c the windows in the lower rooms have been t broken by pieces of coal, apparently propelled n by some uncanny force from the fire-grate, „ wJuch has been taken down and rebuilt with- i .out >any diminution in. the frequency of the 7 occurrences. t. As fast as tho new windows are put in they are said to be broken. China' has also been smashed, furniture damaged, -and the ocoupants of the house hit by missiles. While a newspaper representative was in the house a gentleman entered, who stated that on- two occa- t] sions recently, when he called to eee Mrs. ri Jones, he had been violently struck in the back by lumps of coal. Although ho had turned g sharply he, could find nothing to account for > the singular, business. Mr. Jones is generally away from home during the day, and his aged a ir "quite, unnerved by the occurrences. '< Meanwhile the' house is visitod by many s< curious_ parties in motor-cars, carriages, and on cycles.—"Daily Nows." .