Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1864-1869, 1869-06-26
Number 3.
A REMARKABLE CASE.
A Man Warned by q Prcsentl.
ment Prevents q Crime-Truth
stranger Than Fiction.
From the Detroit Free Press.l

PuritAnic times, with their attendant
ghost.seeing and WITHDRAWING horrors,
have so long since passed away that only
the unlettered revive the tales over the long
embers Of the dying evening fire. The.
hsunted houses Of to-day are but the play
things Ct the midbight wind, and the ghosts
seen now and then are flesh and bleod to
the touch Of the incrsdulous. But that peo-
pie may be warned Of impending evil In
dreams, or that the nervous system may to-
legraph TO the brain the danger that bsset
absent friends, has been 80 often demostrat-
Cd that many firmly believe the theory, II
theory 1t may be termed.
On Tuesday evening last Bernard Rolfe,
German farmer, residing about nine miles
from this city, on the Pontiac road, had
business with q hardware firm on Wood
ward avenue. He had German laborer In
his employ named Henry Artles, and him
Mr.. Rolfe left at home busy with the team,
and procured a passage in with neighbor.
1t was about s o CLOCK in the afternoon when
Rolfe left his home, and, as 1t was unders-
TODD that the neighbor would not return be-
fore the next day, the family, consisting OF
wife and three small boys, knew that they
would be alone with the hired man for the
night Artles was comparative stranger
to them all, having been at work for two
weeks only. He was quiet and peace
able'appearing man, and spent his leisure
hours by himself, never indulging in con-
versation when not directly appealed to.
Still, neither Role nor wife found fault or
even had occasion to suspect that the labor
or was other than what he seemed.
On his arrival In tho city, Mr.. Role par
tally concluded his business with the mer-
chants and engaged lodgings at hotel on
Larned streets. About 0 o'clock in the ev-
ening, while seated in the office smoking.
Mr.. Rolfe relates that he began to tremble
and feel nervous shocks, which so increased
that in short time be could scarcely hold
his Pipe between hsteeth. lie walked sew
eral times across the room, went into the
open air, but the feeling did not in the least
pass away. His thoughts kept recurring 10
the laborer at home, and he called to mind
the features of Artles, and the hitherto un-
suspicious, fact that no had several times
caught him peerlng about the room, where
a bureau was standing that contained tho
hard earned dollars that were to 90 toward
putting an addition on the house as sooL 90
a few more could be added to them. At 10
o'clock Rolfe decided to 20 home. He was
laughed at by his neighbor, who told him
that tho feeling was the first symptoms Of
chill fever; Rolfe weuld 20 home next day
and find everything had passed off peaceful
ly. Rofe hesitated for some time, but at
last started for home on foot promising to
return In the morning on horseback In time
to secure tho balance of bis things before
e the noighbor should be wanting TO return
home. He reached home about midnight,
awakened his wife, and to her expression ol
aatonishment could say nothing only thai
he felt that he oughtto return. Inquiring
as to Artles, the wife replied that he hasS
performed the farm "choses," as usual, 70
mained sbout the house for while, and
q then informed her that, the night beini
!. warm, he would sleep In the barn. Rolf
passed through to tho kitchen, where b,
i, found window up that looked directly OF
n the bsrn-yard. His wife was certain tha
9 she had shut all tho windows on retiring
u As they stood for moment looking out
they saw the barn door swing open, ant
| AA'su' 'uSu WV WV VI tHo HVTbbs. hb tnoN
!. watched, he led the horse through the gate
/. and, going to the 'front.' they saw that h,
had tied the animal to the door-yard gate
Rolfe Immediately opened the door ant
walked down to the gate. He was within
ten feet of Artles when the latter espie,
him, and, giving uttsrance to on oath o
angry astonishment Immediately fed dow
the road. Rolfe pursued him for some 40 o
50 rods, and then gave up the chase. Oh
returning to the horse block, tho CLEAN 0
steel caught bis eye, and no picked from /
an ugly.looking naked sheath.knife. Tn
open window, tho pretense Of sleeping |
the barn, the horse and knife, all went !
prove that Artles was william, and intend
! cd to have robbed the house, even fhe ha
not made use Of tho murderous knife. tn
facts are given exactly as narrated by Nj
Rolfe himself, and the reader 10 free /
judge Of the truth or absurdity Of the pre-,
sniiment. On Friday, Artles had not rs
turned to the neighborhood, neither bad Ii
slightest, cue to bis whereabouts boon di,
covered.