Strange disturbances in village attributed to spirits.
Republic special.
Bowling Green, O., Dec. 19.
The family of Eugene Sly, residing on a farm west of this city, are greatly exercised over repeated but unaccountable demonstrations at their home. For several nights members of the Sly family have been alarmed by sounds of falling missiles on the roofs of their house and barn, as if there might be a shower of tin cans, brickbats and the like falling from the skies.
Word was finally brought to Sheriff Kingsbury of the mysterious happenings at the Sly farm, and he delegated his deputy, Alf B. Farmer, to detect and catch the “spook”. Farmer, armed with his trusty six-shooter, spent an entire night at the Sly farm, but while tin cans, brickbats and stones seemed to fall like hail around the Sly premises, the source from which they came could not be determined, and the origin of the strange demonstrations still remains a mystery.
Sly and members of his family are thoroughly imbued with the idea that they are being disturbed by spirit forces and seriously contemplate vacating the premises.
The St Louis Republic (Missouri), December 21st, 1902.