Mysterious “rockings.”
For some ten or twelve succeeding nights past, says the Galena ‘Advertiser’, the dwelling house of a respectable gentleman in this city has been assaulted with rocks and other missiles in a most mysterious manner. At the first onset several windows were broken in; but more recently the missiles have principally fallen, we understand, on the roof of the house. Large numbers of persons have watched the premises, and every means have been resorted to, to ascertain who are the assailants, or where the rocks come from, but so far, without any success; though the house is so situated that secresy in such a case would seem almost impossible. The matter creates quite an excitement in the immediate neighbourhood.
In ‘Age of Progress’, January 26th 1856.