From The Times Leader of Wilkes-Barre, PA, November 1, 1892:

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THEY LAID THE BANSHEE.

Electric Car Men have Fun with a Hallowe’en Celebrator.

Just as two electric cars, one going to and the other coming from Plymouth, met on top of the hill at the turnout known as Sheridan’s Lookout at about 7:30 last evening, a large figure robed in a long flowing garment of pure white and with Its head enshrouded in the same ghostly covering, stepped from the side of the lonely road to a spot just between the tracks, and with outstretched arms silently motioned the cars to stop.

And stop they did. Mr. Ghost intended here to cut and run for It, but the crews of the cars were too quick for the visitor from the graveyard regions.

Motorman Beatty and Mulherrln grabbed ‘it’ by the arms, while conductors Davenport and Wallace got ‘its’ other extremities. Thus squirming and kicking, the 200 pound ‘ghost’ was thrust into the car bound for Plymouth, where he was finally turned loose for a quiet walk back to the classic precincts’ of Larksville or that vicinity.

The car men were considerate enough to allow the young man to keep his face covered and his identity was not exposed.

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