A VILLAGE MYSTERY.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 118, 17 May 1909, Page 6

A VILLAGE MYSTERY.

WEIRD OCCURRENCES IN "HAUNTED" HOUSE.

Extroardinary interest is manifested in the country district surrounding the town of Eccleshall, Staffordshire, in mysterious occurrences at a house-at Copmere, a little village some three miles distant from Eccleshall. .••■.,,,■■ The village is very inaccessible, being miles removed from a railway station, and the scene of the mysterious

visitations is a house which for forty years has been owned and occupied by Mr Richard Jones and his wife— an ordinary country dwelling standing close to -a big - pool not far. from a- road.'.' '' ;. "'. ' '■'' ' ■" ' ■ .'■ '"•

For a month past. uncanny occurrences are reported to have been repeated almost daily, the last being on Saturday, March 13th. When Mrs Jones and a fourteen-year-old girl who has been living with her since* the perplexing affair began were just about to sit down to tea "something" came from "somewhere" and smashed both their cups and saucers into many pieces. At the same time—so the. girl told a newspaper representative—a chair in the room sprang round and round on one leg. Frightened beyond measure, they cried for assistance, but when the neighbours came nothing could be found to account for the affair. Almost aH the windows in the lower rooms have been broken by pieces of ooal, apparently propelled by some uncanny force from the fire-grate, which has been taken down and rebuilt without any diminution in the frequency of the,occurrences. As fast as the new windows are put in they are said to be bfoken. , China, has also been smashed, furniture damaged, and the occupants of the house hit by missiles. While a newspaper representative was in the house a gentleman entered, who stated that on two occasions recently, when he called to see Mrs Jones, he had been violently struck in the back by lumps ■iot coal. Although* he v had turned sharply he could find nothing to account for the singular business. Mr Jones is generally away from home during the day, and his 4ged wife is quite unnerved by the occurrences. Meanwhile the house, is visited by many1 curious parties in motor-cars, carriages, and on cycles.—Daily News. ' -