Worcester daily spy., 1861-08-27
Mr. Il, of Thirty,eighth street, also be-

| Mr.. Il, of Thirty eighth street, also be-
ing present
We set the whole affair down as an optical
illusion, produced by the fact that the Doctor
had been sitting moodily for an hour or so in
the fading twilight, thinking about his first
wife and recalling the circumstances of her
death upon that day. 1t was not, we contend
vision, vision which lie had seen previous
to the swoon, and causing the swoon but a
dream which had come to him while he was
swooning from another aud purely physical
causes.
"Well, well" he would reply, ait may be
so. But if so, can't have long to live; as
awake and in my senses when ! saw that pic
ture, or thought l saw it, Or, if it was really
an Illusion. my liver must be SO badly out Of
order that may as well prepare at once for
the last shuttle The thing, however, which
puzzles me most to account for, was the pres
ence Of NJ" mentioning the name of
his eldest son, with whom he was not on good
terms, 'at that girls bedside Either he must
be living under an assumed name, or the FAM
lily could not have known him while / was
staying at THEN house. Surely nothing would
be more natural than for them to have mem
toned that they knew a young mau of my
name and from my city, if such had been the
case"
Next morning. DR.. L. W. received tele.
gram, sent the night before, but to late for
delivery at this end of the line. 1t read as
follows -
SYRACUSE, 10 P. NJ, May 17th, 1850.
Take the first train and come. The sudden
death of Helen gave Mrs. R--n a shock
which brought fainting fit. Artery under
cancer broke, threatening death from loss of
blood. She specially wants to see you"
This was signed by one of the two doctors
whose faces Dr. W. had seen in his vision of
the evening before. 1t told him. then, that the
appearance in his library had indeed been a
vision, and that Helen had actually died
whether in the way he had seen her or in some
other way.
Taking the first train he arrived the house
near Syracuse without any loss of time that it
was possible to avoid Aud on ringing the
door bell, mutfled with Grape at about 10 NJ,
on the morning of the 19th the door was open
ed Tor him by his eldest son, whom he bad not
seen for several years, and whom he might
possibly never have seen again but for this
circumstance.
We have not time to dwell on the minute
particulars of Helen's death, but the following
outline must suffice. She had been more than
usually careful of herself for several days,an
more than usually tender to her father and
mother-a kind of forboding having seized
her that something was Every wrong with
her lungs. Having gone into Syracuse on the
morning of the 18th to do some shopping, she
made several visits and did not think of re-
turning until twilight began to creep over the
laud. She then started in evident alarm, and
said she must hurry home at onue, declining
to accept the escort of gentleman whose
daughter she had been visiting. When next
heard OF, about two hours after she was found
by young M W, the doctors son, ian
entire stranger to her and only casually pass
ing that way lying at the top of rather steep
bill between her fathers house aud the place
she had Just lett-a large quantity of blood
mixing with the ella, of the road beneath her
tGce, and blood still oozing out of her mouth
The cause OF this disaster, it was not diff
cult for those who knew her TO guess Hur.
rying home, and frightened, no doubt by the
appearance of thunder storm which was
orerhanglng the neighborhood, she must have
eXerted herself unduly hTrying up the hill
and the excitement of her feelings, together
with the deeper respiratiohS brought on by ia.
Vtsses Ilaas; hha is tgn tGRnftf se ef 1 rfp@p 3p t Ta w
rhage which ensurd. Terrified anl unable 10
move, she had lain on the road about half
an hour in state OF unconsciousness; and
when young W mounted the hill to where
she lay, She had only strength to point family
10 the yellow house ON the next hill top as the
place to which she wished 10 be conveyed.
lie was in Il wagon which he used i'll his
business as all agent for Hecker's Farina, and
at once lifted her into it-taking her as gently
as he could to her fathers house. He then
drove into the city and brought back with
him two doctors-those recognized by DIR. W.
in the library aud in this way it came to pass
that he had been standing at her bedside, just
as his father had seen him in that vision which
transpired at the very same moment of time
with the actual enactment OF the scene.
On further inquiry DIR. W. discovered that
just the same persons and none others had
been round the couch Of HELEN when she
died. And we may sum up the remarkable
condolences of this case as follows HELEN NJ.
II. was born on the same day-the third of
June-as the first wife Of the doctor, though
about thirty-fve years later She bore the
most wonderful physical resemblance to what
Mrs. w. had been at the same age. She died
the same day, the 18th of May, and as closely
as possible at the same hour in the evening.
The husband of Mrs w. had vision CT Hell.
lens death, and the exact manner of 1t the
moment it was transpiring; and this death
was made the means in the hands of an over.
ruling providence, for reuniting the eldest son
of Mrs. w. to his father. We drop the cur
tain, but will furnish full names and proof to
any parties applying with proper motive.