A Ghost Named Clark.
| Kadina 1933 {SLSA B 8738} |
In August 1880,
Kadina on the Yorke Peninsula was haunted by a ghost. The ghost was seen in the
evenings. It purposefully scared women and children, jumping out from behind
trees, and around corners.
One evening, Foot Constable Murray of the Kadina police patrolled the streets. He spotted the ghost as it floated through the town and followed it. He approached the ghost, and grabbed it, expecting to pass through it - as you do – but the ghost was solid. He unmasked the Kadina spectre, a man in a white bedsheet, and took him to the police station! FC Murray may have been South Australia’s first ‘ghostbuster!’
Hosiah Clark was charged by Foot Constable Murray with
‘unlawful use of a disguise to frighten women and children.’[1]
Clark was deemed idle and disorderly, he was sentenced to pay 15s for his
crime and serve fourteen days in the Wallaroo Gaol.[2]
