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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12469, 19 February 1909, Page 4

J ; A Melbourne newspaper states th.at a senseless practical joke was attended by fatal results at Maryborough re- . cently. Martin Klein,- a young" man ■, was watching one Ostenfeldt building askiffin.a disused wharf shed, by the : aid of flare lamps. Unobserved by Klein; a young man named McPher- ■ ; son Tolled a stone along the. floor, arid •Klein exclaimed, "The place is haunt- ■ ed!" MacPherson, seizing the^ ghost theory as a good opportunity to scare Klein, rattled empty : tins and blew, the flares out, while. Klein- was looking -for the cause of the noises, produced by ' the stone. 'lilein fainted from shock.-' Restoratives we're immediately applied, and Dr.. Penny was called, but -he: declared that > Klein was dead. MacPherson at once re- • ported to the police the shocking 7 result of his' joke. . r - :". ■'■