Peiping Suspicions Aroused.
Brick-tossing Ghost.
Peiping, Oct. 1.
Following a ten-night exhibition of supernatural skill, a brick-tossing ghost has quietly ceased his work and Peiping police and detectives are again pursuing their duties peacefully. At seven o’clock on the night of September 13 stones first commenced to drop in the vicinity of a small grocery shop. Bricks, pieces of tile and small stones were thrown about by some invisible hand until nine o’clock when the supernatural barrage was lifted. On each night thereafter, until September 23, the performance was repeated with regularity. It began to attract a large number of spectators and the attention of the police.
Ten policemen were detailed to keep a close watch in the vicinity and every house, tree, shrub and pole was carefully scrutinised. The barrage of missiles, however, continued until the night of September 23 when it ceased. Superstitious Chinese are convinced that human power had proved absolutely ineffectual in copy with a ghost. They regard the fact that the phenomena ceased on the night of the Moon Festival, as significant.
Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 16th October 1934.