(I’m assuming the first article matches the second)
Ghost bombards house. Villagers Explain Spirit’s “Irritation”.
Calcutta.
There is a widespread dismay in an Indian village in Bengal, where the house of a recently deceased woman has been mysteriously bombarded with bricks, stones and other missiles since her cremation. The police were called in to discover the unknown marksman, but their investigations proved fruitless, and now the villagers believe that a ghost is responsible for the manifestations. They are troubled, too, because, they say, a mistake was made in the ritual of the cremation ceremony. This is always said to “irritate” a departed spirit. Meanwhile the house has been vacated. The recent occupants hope that in time the ghost will soon regain its composure – or else run out of ammunition.
Malaya Tribune, 1st June 1935.
Ghostly Assailants
Stones and Brickbats from Mysterious Source
Calcutta, Wednesday (Reuter).
Mysterious happenings during the night have been spoiling the lives of two Indians, a schoolmaster, and a lawyer, who think they are being haunted.
Mr Kalipada Sarkar, a retired lawyer, of Dhanbad, Bihar, has been hounded out of house and home by “ghosts.” Tables were mysteriously upset, pictures unaccountably fell from the walls, and stones and brickbats from an unknown source fell on the roof. Life became a burden for Mr Sarkar. After repeated failures to trace the source of mischief he gave it up as a bad job, and has gone to live elsewhere.
Meanwhile Mr S D Bose, a schoolmaster in Cooch Behar, Bengal, is also having trouble with ghosts – they throw stones at his house every night with monotonous regularity. Mr Bose called in the police, but, undaunted by the posse of constables surrounding the house the ghosts kept up a rapid fire of stones. Three men were arrested on suspicion, but were later released for want of sufficient evidence. Now Mr Bose has called in an exorcist, who he hopes will be successful in ridding him of the unwelcome attentions of the mysterious stone throwers.
Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, 18th September 1935.