Daily American telegraph., 1852-06-07
AMERICAN TELEGRAPH.
The Dream-Warning.

An old blind man, named Michel, had for many
years been accustomed to get his living by seat
ing himself every morning on beam, IN one of
the er-yards, with wooden bowl at his feet,
into which the passengers cast their aims. This
long continued practice had made him well known
to the inhabitants; and he was believed to have
been formerly soldier, his blindness was attrib-
uted to the numerous wounds he had received in
battle. For his own part he spoke little, and
never contradicted this opinion. One night Mi
chel by some accident fell in with little girl of
ten years old, named Pawleska, who was friend
less, and on the verge of perishing with cold and
hunger. The old man took her home and adopt
ed her; and from that time instead of sitting in
the Undergrad, he went about the streets in her
company asking aims at the doors Of the houses.
The child called him father, and they were ex-
tremely happy together
But when they had pursued this mode Of life
for about five years, misfortune befel them A
theft having been committed in house which
they had visited in the morning, Pawleska was
suspected and arrested, and the blind man was
left once more alone. But, instead of resuming
his former habits, he now disappeared altogether ;
and, this circumstance causing the suspicion to
extend to him, the girl was brought before the
magistrate to be Intercepted with regard to his
probable place of concealment
Do you know where Michel 81" inquired
the magistrate.
He is dead!" replied she, shedding torrent
of tears.
AS the girl had been shut up for three days
without any of obtaining information
from without, this answer, together with her un-
feigned distress, naturally excited considerable
surprise.
"Who toldyou he was dead % they inquired.
g Nobody.
'Then how can you know it,"
g saw him killed.
6 But you have never been out of the prison !"
g But | saw it, nevertheless! -
{" But how was that possible? Explain what
you mean"
" / cannot. All | can say is that saw him
killed.
"When was he killed, and how ?"
'tIt was the night was arrested"
:" That cannot be; he was alive when you were
seized'
Yes, he was he was killed one hour after
that; they stabbed him with knife !"
"Where were you then ?"
81 can't tell, but saw it,
The confidence with which the girl asserted
what seemed to her hearers impossible and alb
surd, disposed them to imagine that she was
really either insane or pretending to be so so,
leaving Michel aside, they proceeded to interro-
gate her about the robbery, asking her if she
was guilty
''Oh no !" she answered.
"Then how came the property to be found
about your
81 don't know | saw nothing hut the mur.
DER"
'But there are no grounds for supposing that
Michel is dead; his body has not been found"
. 1t is in the aqueduct"
"And do you know who slew him 20
" Yes 1T is woman. Michel was walking
very slowly after | was taken from him. A wo-
man came behind him with large kitchen knife,
but he heard her, and turned round and then
the woman flung a piece of gray stuff over his
head and struck him repeatedly with the knife.
The gray stuff was much stained with the blood
Michel fell at the eighth blow, and the woman
dragged the body to the aqueduct, and let it fall
in without ever lifting the stuff, which stuck to
his face
As it was easy to verify these latter assertions,
they despatched people to the spot; and there
the body was found, with the piece of stuff over
his head, exactly as she had described. But
when they asked her how she knew all this, she
could only answer, 9 | don't know"
"But you know who killed him."
"Not exactly; it is the same woman that put
out his eyes; but, perhaps he will tell me her
name tonight; and if he does will tell it to you"
"Who do you mean by he2"
"Why, Michel to be sure -
During the whole of the following night, with
out allowing her to suspect their intention, they
WuUCueu anu IL was ODSeTNeu Inat Slc never
lay down, but sat upon her bed in sort of
lethargic slumber. Her body was quite motion
less, except at intervals, when this repose was
interrupted by violent nervous shocks, which per-
vaded her whole frame.
On the ensuing day, the moment she was
brough tbefore the judge, she declared that she
was now able to tell them the name of the assas-
sin.
"But stay" said the magistrate, did Michel
al rhnn L. II
his sght?"
"No; but the morning before l was arrested
he promised me to do so and that was the cause
of his death"
GLOW could that be?'
" Last night Michel came to me, and he pointed
to the man hidden behind the scaffolding, on
which he and had been sitting. He showed me
the man listening to us, when he said, III tell
you all about that tonight and then the man
" Do you know the name of this mann"
at is Luck; he went afterwards to n broad
street that leads down to the harbor, and he en-
tered the third house on the right"
"What is the name Of the street ?"
81 don't know, but the house is one story
lower than the adjoining ones. Luck told Cathc-
rine what he had heard, and she proposed to him
to assassinate Michel but he refused, saying, 1T
was bad enough to have burnt out his ewes fifteen
years before, whilst he was asleep at your door
and to have kidnapped him into the country
Then went in to ask charity, and Catherine put
piece Of plate into my pocket, that | might be
arrested then she hid herself behind the aque-
duct to wait for Michel, and she killed him"
But, since you say all this, why did you keep
the plate Why didn't you give information p
"But | didn't see it then. Michel showed il
me last night"
"But what should induce Catherine to do
this? ?"
Michel was her husband, and she had for
saken him to come to Odessa and marry again
One night. fifteen wears ago, she saw Michel