The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-08-27
From the ElgIn I'LL Advocate.
DREAMING TO A APURPOSE.
How Dream Led to the Prevention
or Arson and Horse Stealing
Spirits, or What?

During the night Of Wednesday OF
this week remarkable affair tran
spired in this city, which We will pro-
ceed to relate;
Milo ByingtOn is brotner-in-laW to
Hon. Geo. s. Bowen. The residence
OF the latter is in the southeast part OF
the city, on what is called st. Charles
street. ByingtOn lives directly op-
posity. During the night Byington
experienced dream that Bowen's
Darn was enveloped in flames, and
jumped from the bed into the middle
of the room, which athletic effort
brought him out of somnambulism
He was very much excited, and could
not for 6 moment comprehend the
situation. Impressed, however, with
the thought of the barn being on fire,
he proceeded to the window and dis
covered no sign of blaze. His wife
inquired of him what was the matter,
and he replied that he had q dream
that BOwen's barn was on fire, and
it frightened him very much. The
lady said to him that he had better
lie down, and not be disturbed on ac-
count of q dream. Byington returned
to bed, but trembled like q leaf, and
was unable to quiet his nerves, or
divest his mind of the impression Of
fire at the barn. He says he could
not lie there, and felt impelled to go
to the barn that he could not sleep
or rest until he had followed the i'm
pulse. In spits of the remonstranee
of his good wife he put on his pants
and shoes only, and taking q revolver
in bis hand, made tracks quietly for
BOwen's barn, distance of Is or IS
rods. As he neared the barn he
thought he heard movements Of men
inside, and instead of entering the
barn, as he would have done had he
not heard the noises, he stepped
lightly around the north end of the
barn, and as he looked around the
corner two men walked out Of the
barn door on the east side anJ
stepped around to the south end of
the barn. Byington stealthily fol-
lowed to the next corner, aud when
he reached it be discovered the two
men talking, and heard one say to
the other "NOw you 90 in and get
the horse and I'll fire the thing"
Whereupon Mr.. Byington disturbed
IuC VI llC OJ say
ing: mo, guess you won't" Al
most instantly one OF the men fired
at him, and the ball hit the corner of
the barn, within two or three inches
of Byington's left side. Byington, in
an instant after, YVES popping away
at the fellows, and after the second
shot was fired, one of them, who was
running south from the barn, cried
out: "DOn't shoot / am hit
Byington said to him "StJp, or Pil
shoot again" The fellow did not
stop and Mr.. ByingtOn sent two more
bullets after him.
In the morning bride was found
on the stable floor behind one of the
horses, and at the south end of the
barn where the men was standing
when ByingtOn first disturbed them
Mr.. BoWeh's driver picked up 3 ball
of rags about the size of q eocoanut,
which was bound with a string and
thoroughly saturated with kerosene
oil. He also found on the same spot
three or four matches. The purpose
ofthe two men was, we must neces-
sarily conclude, to steal one or more
of the good horses which Mr.. Bowen
is possessed of, and then burn the
barn to lead the public to think the
animals were burned, and thus
enable them to make good their es-