The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-05-29
THE DAILY DISPATCH,
THE DREAM-wARNING.

THE M-WARNING.
4 remarkable circumstance is related by
Mira. Catharine Browe, in The Night Side of
Nature's as having occurred at Odessa, in
me wear 1912. An old blind man, named
Michel, had for many years been accustomed
10 get his living by seating himself every
morning on beam, IN one OF the tlmber-yards,
with wooden bowl at his feet, into which
the passengers cast their aims. This long
continued practice had made him weli-known
10 the inhabitants, and, as he was believed to
have been formerly a soldier, his blindness was
,tlr buted 10 the numerous wounds he had
received 10 battle. For his own part he spoke
ltlle and never contradicted this opinion
One night Michel, by some accident fell in
with little girl OF ten years old, named Paw
lrsha who was tfiendless, and on the verge of
pelishing with cold and hunger. The old man
took her home and adopted her; and from that
tine instead of sitting in the timber-yard he
sent about the streets in her company, asking
aims at the doors of the houses. The child
Gale him father, and they were extremely
happy together. Bat when they had pursued
tbs mode of life for about five years a misfor-
tue befel them. A theft having been COM
mltted in house which they had visited in
lie morning, Pawleska was suspected and
arrested, and the blind man was left once more
alone. Bat. instead of resuming his former
habits, he now disappeared altogether, and,
tins Circumstance CHASING the suspicion to ex-
tend to him, the girl was brought before the
magistrate to ibe interrogated with regard to
his probable place Of concealment.
Do you know where Michel isl" inquired
the ma gsuate.
He is dead" replied she, shedding u torrent
OF tears.
As the girl had been shut up for three days
without any means of obtaining information,
from without, this answer, together with her
Unfeigned distress, naturally excited consider
able surprise.
Who told you he was dead? ? they inquired.
Nobody
Then how can you know it 2
4 saw him kiledns
But you have never been out Of the prison? =
But | saw it, neverthelessn
But how was that possible? Explain what
yOG mean'
i cannot. All can say s, that saw him
killed.
When was he killed, and how?'
1T was the night | was arrested
That cannot be; he was alive whenyou were
seized!'
Yes he was killed one hour after; they stab
bed him with u knife!'
Where were you then?'
4 can't tell, but | saw it,
The confidence with which the girl asserted
what seemed to her hearers impossible and
absurd, disposed them to imagine that she was
either really insane, or pretending to be so; so,
IeuVlng Michel aside, they proceeded to inter-
Zogate her about the robbery, asking her if she
was guilty
oh no. she answered.
Ihen how came The property to be found
about you?'
i don't know; saw nothing but the mur-
der
But there are no grounds for supposing
Mlchel rs dead; his body has not been found;
1T ls IN the aqueduct.'
And do yoa know who slew him q
We esi IT'S woman. Michel was walking
very slowly, after | was taken from him.
woman came Lehind him with large kitchen
kntie; but he heard her, and turned round; and
then the woman flung piece of grey stuff over
his head, aud struck him repeatedly with the
knlte. The gray stuff was much stained with
Tie blood. Michel fell at the eighth blow, and
'Ae woman dragged the body to the aqueduct,
aHG lei II tai! in without ever lifting the stuff
which stuck to his face"
As II was easy 10 verify these latter asser-
TONS they dispatched people to the spot and
there The body was found, with the piece of
stuti over his head, exactly as she had de-
ScHDed. B4t, when they asked her how she
khe" all this, she could only answer, Il don't
know
But you know who killed him
mol exactly II is the same woman that put
out his eyes but, perhaps, he will tell me her
name to night and if he does l will tell it 10
ysu.'
VINO do you mean by her
" ny, Michel, 10 be suIeT
during The whole of the following night
nj In tb.,1e
tAey watched her; and it was observed that she
never lay down, but sat upon her bed in a sort
u lelhargIc slum0er. Her body was quite
'Hohonless, except al intervals, when this re
pose was inIerrup pied by violent nervous shocks
"nlch pervaded her whole frame.
oh Inc ensuing day, the moment she was
Drought before The judge, she declared that she
" as now able 10 tell them the name of the as
sassu.
But stay, suId the magistrate; did Michel
"7'et teii SOa, when he was alive, how he lost
his sight
NO, but the morning before was arrested
-'1 Pio'lleeo me 10 do so; and that was the
cause Of his Death
How cQud that be 7!
Last nIgbt Michel came to me, and he point
81 10 the man hidden behind tiie scnffoIding on
"A'Ch he ana had been sitting. lie showed
'.F 'Ae n'ah listening 10 us, when he said, 'I'II
''.' You ali about that tonight and then lhe
;LtA-
10 you know the name of this man?'
II Is Lact he went afterwards 10 a broad
7''eet tiIut leads down 10 The harbour, aud he
e'.,lcd the lhiTd house on the right.
"hat Is me name OF the street,
b, I don't kEow, but the house is one story
,9"er Ihan the adjoining ones. Luck told
Ia'hetine what ne heard; and she proposed TO
I'm u assassinaie Michel, but he refused, say
lng, II vas bad enough to have burnt out his
eyes hiteen years before, whilst he was asleep