rj}fjC V0TCJ 0"' T{TE " 1RIDC 
 
   ten ,thl     the village, of .O..0ro,, west a - --of, .Oshkosh, was the
center 
of Spiritualist activity -in ..the stat'e.  Herethe First Spiriualist's 
Society hosted eminent spiritualists. a-andmediLmsafror all) .oerl the 
United Stats..... the Davenpot- bro the's ,$osa,-Jull0f Ildoston, -enjamin

             Tod of ~ichgan  Ss-a -ohnon  f a~ior~~ &ndr~any ioh~. Seances

multipliedsand spirits.s materalized, b.t,< -with Vpec lCi a irony. ,the
com- 
b.inebd - ,feors of local -and, visiting mediums -failedto. slve Qte .murder

of a loca*l citizen.-* 
 
   It was about1877 :that Jovan-, alocal farmer, was. .mysterious- 
lysain     Sometime between 9an.d 0o 6f'clock at-nght, he blet the vil- 
lage.~~,re-he --had spent -the--day..tradin. It had lbeen- along .weary day,

and- his(thoughts-wereno .-doubt .on ahorme ad be  ashe trudged over the

bridge: -sparnning the- Fox River.- 
 
   Sudd.enly.a-cry of alarm-rang- out, f ollowed-. by.the discharge, of a
gun. 
A- short-tie- later- sulli.van -was .found dead at. the side of the-bridgeo

-There-were no-witnesses,j -no knowi.motives, no suspects.  Law enforce-

ment..:officials were baffled. Who killed John Sullivan?    Seances buzzed

with .thequesttion as candles flickered. late intothe night in the homes

0of theG... psychics.  But there-was never an answer-, 
 
   Thenrone night a MAr.. Vilson was crossing the bridge wvhere the farmer

had met his death. Out of the darkness, he noticed a man just ahead of 
                                           1 Mr-       , sotThatý.

huiJ- shouldering a gun.. A voice whispered into Tr. Wilsons ear"That

   thew gun that, killed John Sullivan."' A terror-filled scream, then
a 
          loud-re~or<  -J- -I 
 .Loudreportrent the air, and the appai-ation vanished. 
 
   V ilson fled -to the village to relate his experience, swearing that 
he would- recognize ..the nurder.-- weapon .if he ever saw it again.  Later
he 
claimed-,,that he had seen it.  Who owned it? I'ilson would not say.'The

spirits weren't talking either, and to this day Sullivan's murder re- 
mains a mystery. 
 
     -.--From "Haunted Wisconsin" page 162 by Beth Scott and Michael

 Nor-an- -tanton ( Lee Publishers, Inc.     First printinff Oct. 1980.