Haunted House
Nightly Fusillade of Bricks and Bottles
Detectives baffled.
Pelted at by some unknown person or persons with jugs and bottles as the residents at lot 23 Hogg Street, Albouytown [sic] have been for the past week, they come to the conclusion that their house is haunted. The property is owned by a Mrs George, and seems that for the last seven days or so the inmates of the house have had a rather lively time. Apparently each night a perfect fusillade of bricks and broken bottles has taken place, Mrs George’s house being the target.
It is stated that the family usually retire early, and nothing happens till about midnight when the missiles begin to strike the house from all sides. Who is responsible for the pelting of these bottles nobody is in a position to say, and to such a pitch have matters reached that the police had to be communicated with.
On Saturday night the pelting became worse than on the previous evenings: there was a steady rain of jugs on the house. But despite the vigilance of some detectives who tried to discover who was at the bottom of the thing, they were unable to solve the mystery. That some unknown person is playing a practical joke on the residents of the house is only too obvious, but not a few superstitious people in the neighbourhood are inclined to attribute the jug-throwing to the work of another “baccoo.” – “Argosy,” September 17.
Mirror (Trinidad and Tobago), 23rd September 1913.