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The World's News (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 1955), Saturday 9 July 1910, page 10

National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article128261759

Mwteriw f tie AostraBwiPlains.

CHK wuurrOK COACH-HOBSE.nUHK KBBM).

TOT eirromatanees I prpM to Un relate are as extraordinary and as vatderfnl as anything vrar read in theveriest fiction. TtU, bowoTr. is not fiction, tat a raeord of actual happenings. Hie?^explainable ocrorrences and mystifying pheno .bom occmrtng la that part of Aostr-lla-thenorthern border country, lying immediatelyvest of the Great Dividing Bange-at the timeof bMi I write would not alone astonnd theordinary man, but mystify theexperienced psychologists of agnen^ieB.

Of tUi ta4 other incidentsof which I write I can supplyfullest particulars as to place,person, and circumstance toanyone desiring them.

Wild Black D , horseloTer. thief, and daredevil rider, was dashed?pint a tree and killed ractog home from the township,?is horso-a magnilcentiyftOfiUnmifl, shiny-coated(MMHni also so badlyinjured by the impact that hehad to 1* shot where ho layby ii from the station, whofound tho unfortunate I>dead The hone was notburnt, but left on the plain.D hod bought him out Oftho -II Dosih service.ISM fsw years after this

lanH-t tales began to circaInto over tho surrounding districts of a ?fiilmi animal,isaiil with the arts of station and other homes, roomingtoo timbered country and?brins. It did not belong to

It did not belong tothe ststleo, nor to anyone uoo(thoos porta. Mo one oouM befound to claim it. it wasnever to bo mm In the daylimn'--|y at mftt. A number of attempts were made bystation hands and others tomfo the animal, but it la-variably detached Itself fromtoo mob. Tfcero was no chanceof getting It to the yards withtho others.At a glance it could be eeentho -h**1 was a uapileni.one, worth a hundred pounds ifo gassy. The most aecompHilsl riders, on their fastesthotsss* tncblod the Job; buttoo stranger always ihowodthem a particularly clean pairaf hK and the strnageot

part of tho tbing wus that whentoo -mounts of the pursuerswere completely fagged-out

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ad biitw tto parsaed timfjIts fe*t aa freah aa when Itrtarta*^^^BMm ma case from tki far fjanaatfaaflskia, kindreds af milee i.vay-tared by ft*tales of this aacaaqueiaMe spriater of ttesight. Maaj earn* . aoefc for the *r-"--*.f tha chase aa far the poaatbility af a vata.Ma capture. They aat with ao mare rocceaathan the boaae SMB.The one who cat eloaaat t* tti apparttio*

or phantoai. ar Caterer (oa beat aatta waethe drfvar t tha wall naadfc traaa M - to thaborder tuaaahtp of N . . He had formerlybeea a attp ooacb driver ta theweaterm fltitw. aad baaatad ot betas afraid ataothiac. feawllaf alaas mm sight aver Ammiles aC gnaay gMfrfc awtntfag tha ntaa twrin hones, ha caKtieaaly ttdttM tMMi MIAaad after a tnr milts atvaktag QMkg m fWttwtM' arraHn to *.ka tha -at-naa ?!!- at gray) ha lnhil ap.

to Ma i-at ara itiwi, saw aptaat tha aff*of tha frost three aa ether baraabriskly aa If la hanaaa with. tha

Its gtaaay cast

glsa-d again fa ttt -onllght 81iiiltaneottsIy D , the driver, notleed that the Iw catchhorses ttoliiei Hm of great uneasiness, iwtfiMl from tide to aide, fidgeting about, andalmost fewontag unmanageable. He had, ofeonrae. heard of the phantom horse of theplalna. Pulling the team up as quickly m hecoold, he sprang to the ground and walked upto vie* more closely the extra horse. Whenhe reached the head of the team It was gone!It had disappeared-vanished!

After standing dumfounded oa the road forsome adnutes to try and grtap the situation,he fe-mounted the box, and drove on. In aninstant the sixth horse was again by theleaders! Reining them back on their haunches,he again aprang to the ground, whip. In hand.There were only bis own five horses! ThinkingIt all must be a dream, he re-mounted andetarted the team again. By thia time they didnot need much startinc.Tbe phantom horse waa again by the leaders!More mystified than crer, D- whirled kitwhip over the team-urging them to theirbitett Met, usSw to Had the company ofsomebad? !???>. He kqt Ma eye oft thephiat- Hr -nthlin like tea miles -till daydawa-whea it'disappeared as ajaicriNatr aadas silently u It CUM.At daybreak D drove tat* the border townat the oad aC Mb mcUm la state oC iatease

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state.setteaeatw Idrisd Am Jaded Immml Me iimvtrwm hi* awt, aad excitedly told hi* aUrr tothe pupli who had boea'awattiag U* tntiaLTai aot ftiraldef ovtliai mrtal,"^he MMwith ft titmrn h Ml Totee. Whoa It eomeeto MBai With spans Tm oft. *sr the laattwo hoars Ifabooa tf*f'TW hehtad a sixth horse,or the ghost of eae that appears aad disappear*like a llgfctatag Ct*. I dldat eoatraoi Carr-Tt." aal ho aitted the hacvSso there aadthaa, -d wait oirer the hogi*.

Ibrtar: "Pwey says thai 1 am the Irst girlha over hissed QoraMino: "Tea. lad doocn'the do it dellghtfallyr*