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wife nitfnus. nu m uiu ^ivr.uhouse part of the time and is still a tenant, hut his domestic affairs areat sixes and sevens. A strange fea-of the demonstration is thatunless Mrs. llarri-;;oturethey never occurman i; present, and usually when the husband is present. The Harrimans are persons oJ respectability and arepuli up and down. !t was a ; true1 stand here and I 1 ck d every when for evidence of tin* cause.”1 thought at first that so ne kind of an animal had got into the wall and I bought five cans of chloride of limeand sprinkled theI haveesteemed us good citizens and neigh-Neither Harriman nor his wifej bors.is particularly superstitious. Another trying experience the Harrimans was on one i when Mrs. Harriman I leading to the cellaiyrelatednightsaw the door open slightlyand she threw herself against it, and it opened three times when she final-put the back of a chair under themade toknob. Next efforts were open another door in the same room and all the t'me the knocking in thewall continued.Mr. Harriman had investigatedevery nook and corner o! the unfurnished attic rooms, and as a last re-jsort h. ping to find the bottom of the trouble concluded to look under the hcuse, of which there is no cellar. Hetook a flashlight and with a clubfor a weapon, crawled in under and 1 coked for any opening in the floor or possibly any contrivance which might be planted and worked from the outside. He was unable to findand thecontents in the walls, but that did no good, tried everything and now am going to give up my position and be with my I family nights. Some think it is all a forewarning and my wife feared that some harm might come to me in my work at the car barn. I don’t take anystock in this. Others thought it wassome relative who has passed away who wanted to talk with my wife, and advised me to see a spiritualist, but I j can’t belief that. I have lived in this 1 house for almost a vear and we neverheard any noise out of the ordinary until I went to work as night watchman at the car barn. I was hired inplace of another man. The knocking and strange actions would take place while I was at my work. There are no limbs of trees dragging on the roof of the house to cause the knocking and I admit honestly that I am at sea as to the cause. It would be a great relief to my wife and daughter if we could determine the cause. Some people think it comes from the outside. Iwill tell you right here that if I shouldtflr«anything that was wrong, more he thought of the whole affair the more he got interested.‘T am not a rich man but I would gladly give two weeks’ pay to know the cause of it all,” said Mr. Harrison to the Journal. ‘‘It is beyond me. I am not one bit frightened and sleep in the house since my wife left and in the same bed where she slept when the plastering was knocked from the wall and the wash stand and chab*toppled over on the floor. There is no nbise going on when I am in the house. When 1 tell some peonle thexperiences that my wife and daught*anything ofIcatch anybody doing the kind I will leave him a fit subjectfor the undertaker. I have been comfortably situated in my little houseworkwith my family and liked my and the pay, and 1 tell you. I hate to give up the work. But my wife and daughter need my company nights and I hope we have seen the last of the terrible experiences encountered in the Drown house.”TROOP 1. BOV SCOUTS.Troop 1, Boy Scouts, will meet tonight at fi.JO o’clock at the home o
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Biddeford Daily Journal
Biddeford, Maine, US
Fri, Sep 16, 1921
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