THERE ARE NO GHOSTS IN TOWER OF LONDON.
LONDON, March 12.
Mr Walter G. Bell, F.S.A.. the London historian, lecturing on “The Tower of London" at Westminster School yep terdav in aid of King Edward’s hospital Fund for London, said ; There are no ghosts in the Tower of London I have, searched diligently, but lark conviction concerning any. Legend says that, on wild nights, when the moon shines through breaks in storm clouds, the dark shadow of an axe steals across Tower Green and stands silhouetted against the grev walls of the Norman Keep. I have found no one who has seen it. More circumstantial is the story of the sentry of the old 60th Rifles. When on sentrv-go before the King s House, below the window of Anne Holeyn's prison room, he saw the white figure of a woman emerge and move towards him. Very ungallantly he lunged at the shade with his bayonet. It met with no resistance. The man fell in a swoon, and I
court-martial of being drunk while on duty. He told his story and it was corroborated by other soldiers then quartered in the Bloody Tower. They said that, looking out, they also saw Anne Boleyn’s phantom and saw the sentry strike with his bayonet and
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17834, 30 April 1926, Page 4
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