Exorcising the ghost of Treves.
After the Holy Coat comes the ghost – in Treves, at any rate. Last autumn a rumour gained currency that a house in that city was haunted. Every evening the restless spirit tapped mysteriously on the walls, howled under the beds, upset stoves, and so forth, after the manner of its kind. The police were called in, and subsequently, as a dernier ressort, a clergyman; but neither the temporal nor the spiritual authority was able to solve the enigma or to allay the popular terror.
At length a woman living in the neighbourhood managed to lay hands on the goblin itself, in the person of a larrikin of 14. The ghost has just made his appearance in the local Police Court, upon what charge we do not exactly know – perhaps that of being a ghost not under proper control. Anyhow he got off, but – and this is the remarkable part of the business – his parents were sentenced to fourteen days a piece for not having kept the young hopeful out of mischief.
Dundee Evening Telegraph, 18th February 1892.