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SUPPOSED TO BE HAUNTED. An interwting cablegram was pab- Joled pecomuy regarding the comnee hulk Gueeese, which during a voyage of 68 chase servus the Atlantic met with an siccuomion of tremendous gales. The captain of the Success reported by wireless to the captain of the Guard Uner Francona that he was having great trouble with his Hecaerat Pid envy weather, he reported, considerable damage and the crew absolutely refused to go below decks, declaring that the ship was haunted. ‘The hulk Success, was lying at Mel bourne for years oo exhibit as a relie ’: the ‘times when convicts were sent to Australia from England. Many stories have been told of dreadful bug penings and brutal scenes of violence and murder on board the oce, and for this reason when the ship was cut down to a hulk and turned into a ex hibition, it proved a profitable xurst wnt for those who tank on the vir me After a long time the Succes was sold, and taken back to England, where she Wis again at object of intercet as a helic of the daye of the Inch, the lec iron, find the brutal satence say the otly crime. Quite recently the Succes was heaveht Australian Aviot beaing a ditFwershi pr an American syndicate and fitted up in such a way as to enable her to ieass the Atlantic. Surely there are few vessels buying such a strange abory of crime and adventure (ayn the Daily News and it is little wonder that the crew now sailing her across the turbu lant waters of the Atlantic, fed up no forte ohh proeien and horrid tales of it happened on the very dards they slept upon, have allowed their superstitions full plas, ard in every shadow seen = ghost, and in every creak and moan of tackle or boom heard the anguish of Jane we dare from the blood tesses nf sinessy sprite. . Fir) Childrens’ Haeing Cough at aleht was Great Peppermint Cure, Me
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Boulder Evening Star
Boulder, Western Australia, AU
Mon, Aug 12, 1912
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Richard N.
