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 theevenings. It purposefully scared women and children, jumping out from behindtrees, and around corners.
One evening, FootConstable Murray of the Kadina police was patrolling the streets at night. Hespotted the ghost as it floated through the town and followed it. He came up tothe ghost, and grabbed it, expecting to pass through it - as you do – but theghost was solid. He unmasked the Kadina spectre, a man in a white bedsheet, andtook 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.’Clark was deemed idle and disorderly, he was sentenced to pay 15s for hiscrime, and serve fourteen days in the Wallaroo Gaol.
'POLICECOURT—KADINA.', The Wallaroo Times and Mining Journal, (18 August1880), p. 3.
'NEWS OF THEMONTH.', The Illustrated Adelaide News, (1 September 1880), p. 1.
