A PHANTOM SNIPER.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 1396, 25 October 1932, Page 3

A PHANTOM SNIPER.

» ■-■—_' HAT-IRAISING iEXjPERIENCE. A series if- "mysterious -happenings at a reputedly haunted house on a lonely hillside at Hornell, m rural New York, has reached a climax with the attempted shooting of the Rev. Herman Lee Henderson, who . recently rented the house as a summer home. Five ' previous ' tenants had "been frightened -from the premises by ghostly noises m the' middle of ~ the night and by death warnings! The house is old ,and isolated from neighbours, and after the 'hair-raising experiences of" a succession^ of tenants was shunned as haunted.-' Mr Hen--derson, however^ ignored these manifestations, which had scared other tenants away, and the' supposed phantom took. mor c direct steps to get rid of him. * On a well outside the house the clergyman found 'a note weighted down by a rifle 'bullet, warning him to keep away. As he read this note a bullet, fired from a screen of trees, whined through the air, punctured his hat and lifted it from his head. Mr Henderson noticed that the rifle* report was fault and Lieutenant Vaine, of New York State police, said it seemed to have been fired from a considerable distance and sighted b) an expert mark~sman.»