t 3
a.m. Just a glimpse of you. It's funny, isn't
it?--Yours,

"'CLAUDE BURGESS'

"Miss Steele's cook made the following statement to Mr.
Baggally:--

"'_13th March 1912_

"'On Wednesday morning, the 6th March last, Miss
Emma Steele came down from her bedroom at 8.30. I
saw she was looking pale. I asked her if she were
not well. She replied that she had had a strange
dream. She heard Mr. Burgess call her three times.
She told me that she suddenly jumped up and put
her dressing-gown on. By the time she had put on
her dressing-gown and lit the gas she remembered
Mr. Burgess had left the house. She said it was
about 3 o'clock a.m. when she heard Mr. Burgess
call.

(Signed) "'SARAH POLLARD'

"The following statement was written by Mr. Baggally on 13th
March 1912, from Mr. Claude Burgess's dictation:--

"'On Tuesday night, 5th March 1912, I woke up at
about 3 a.m. with a start. I saw Miss Emma Steele
standing at the door of my bedroom. I had closed
the door, but she appeared to have opened it. She
was attired in her ordinary dress.

"'I was much surprised. It was an absolutely
distinct apparition. I had not been thinking of
her the previous day, and I cannot tell why she
appeared to me.

"'The apparition lasted about five seconds. I was
not at all frightened, and went to sleep
immediately after.

"'I was so struck by what I had seen that, next
morning, the 6th March, at about 11 o'clock, I
wrote a letter to Miss Steele which I handed to
Mr. William Watkins, the proprietor of the
establishment where I now reside, for him to send
to Miss Steele. In this letter I told Miss Steele
that I had dreamed that she had appeared to me on
the previous night.

(Signed) "'CLAUDE BURGESS'

"In reply to Mr. Baggally's personal inquiries, Mr. Claude
Burgess stated that it was the first time that he had had a
hallucination of this kind, and he had not had one since.

_Statement by Mr. William Watkins_