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Everyone on Farm Had Bad Luck After the Hired Man • Disappeared.fly Associated Press to Every Evening.Palnesvllle. Ohio, Aug. 12.—A '‘Ghost which farmers living near Paine's Holltow say has been haunting them for seven years, is at rest’’ tcday. It disappeared several days ago with the burial of the body of Henry LlpcnsUck which was 'found In nn abandoned well on a farm.Lipenstick. a farmhand, disappeared seven years ago. Since then the farm Is said to have had poor crops. A farm house burned down and the ghost’* was blamed for that. Owner after owner has come and gone.Carl L gies purchased the farm about a year ago. Whenever he went to his barn at night, Logies said today, he would see a white wraith-like figure walking about. At times he declared. he followed It with his gun In hand and it always disappeared in the direction cf the well.Determined to find out what caused the apparition, Logies cleaned out the old well, which had been filled with stones lie caine upon the body cf Llp-! enstlck. Sheriff Spink was called and he and his deputies suspected murder The next drty the sheriff ordered the body burled and now the ghost” la gone.Frank Lernan, who owned the farm at the time Llpenstick disappeared, is in Lnkd County JaJl. He is bound over to the grand Jury on chargia of murder.
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Wilmington Every Evening

Wilmington, Delaware, US

Sat, Aug 12, 1922

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