The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-04-30
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HANGED BY 4 DRExn
DETECTION OF A CRIME BY BoY's DREAM
WONDERFUL, IF TRUE

was staying for a short time in NJ.d;,.
county, Ohio. when the following occprraa.
A boy, living in s. Cen,re ,,;,,, -
parents was bound OUT for year to
Dir. Evans at Medina, the county seat. H;.
work was to chop wood and run errands
AS the boy was perfectly honest and NOT
afraid of work, he soon gained the oood
VIII OF his employer, who when the wear
was out, made him present. in additio, 70
MS wages, of a fine copy of seRobinso,
orusoe. The boy had been kindly treated
during his term, and this with the addition
Oh the present gained his employer his es-
TEEN. The boy wished 20 stay another
year, but his parents had need of him at
home, and SO he returned.
ABOUT three months afterwards he vis;ted
MS old employer. He remained a dav mr.
two, and during that time s'struck mn, an
acquaintance with man who had succeed-
ed him in the old merchants service No,v
as all boys are social and wish for oomn.,v
1t is not surprising that he went with the
hired man good deal. AT night he was
allowed to sleep with him, yet the man al.
ways viewed the boy with dislike.
Mr.. Evans extended him a cordial ;,r;
tation to come again, and once mole the
boy returned home. Not a week had pass-
ed when one morning the boy, coming down
from his room, pale and embarrassed. asked
LOT morse to proceed to Medina. Such a
request was not common, and the parents.
py close questioning, succeeded i'm elicitinp
the following story: ''When went tobed
ias1 night L soon got to sleep. do not
believe slept over an hour when sometbino
awoke me. l lay there thinking and
thinking, and then turned over to co 4,
sleep. All at once l felt as if a sword had
oeeh struck through me, and Immediately
jumped, or rather floated from the bed.
Ii seemed rather curious, so cast a glance
towards the bed and saw somebody was
there, to all appearances sleeping soundly.,
Inc mother then interrupted him saving
Il guess you ate too much supper and had
| the nightmare"
| The boy made ne reply EXCEPT 10 nrocead
Win MS story. 81 tried to feel the body
IN the bed, but by some invisible agency I
was whirled out of the window, and with
terrific speed was hurried toward gJef5ip,
How 1t was done / know not; vet am sura
was absent from this house last night in
| spirit or body as l am that I now live.
asSihg over the fields, noted every house
and farm until Medina was in SIGHT. Fast
er than the wind l went until I was loot;,,
into the chamber window of Mr.. Evans
lie was sleeping with his wife calmly and
peacefully. l looked toward the door. II
creaked on its hinges, opened and tbres
men entered softly. One of them was .be
hireo man. The others know not vet
could recognize them among a thousand.
One was halfbreed, and the other anna.
rently Scotchman
"1he hired man opened drawer in the
stand' and took from it the old mans own
razor =; he went to the bed, and with IL en-.
the Old mans throat as calmly as if he was
outchering COW. The hot blood spurted
iorth the old man gave but one groan, and
he was dead. The blood fell upon the face
OF his wife. 1t awoke her. There in tho
moonlight, she saw her husbands mprderer
his hands dripping with blood. Then
Sue turned toward the murderer. She
seemed endowed with a giants strength,
onatchlng the razor from the bed vbere II
mad fallen, she sprang like tigress upon
the murderer. He shook her off. Their.
with one superhuman effort she drove .ba
razor deep into the breast of the one who
stood nearest. 1t was the half>breed T,.
! other two seemed transfixed with horror q.
put the Scotchman, recovering himself
seized hatchet which he had brought. and
literally hacked Mrs. Evans to pieces,
Their devilish work being done, they rifled
the pockets of Mr.. Evans, and raising the
mattress, took from uEder it a package of
bills, round which was wrapped a piece of
writing paper. 1 saw no more. I was
conducted back to s. Centre. and r
awoke from sound sleep. 1t was morn
ing.''
When the boy began his story the pa
rents ridiculed him, ,Ibut his earnestness and
the knowledge of his integrity had con.
WINGED them that there was sssomething l.,
it - "
So. according to his repeated reoues,s.
he was allowed to go to Medina. He ar
rived at noon and found that Mr.. and Mis-.
Evans had been murdered; that one of the
murderers had been killed by Mrs Fvsns
and that the police were on the traclx of H.
hired man. who had not been seen since
the murder.
The ooy remouuted and started home.
ana when the news came that the murder
eTs had been captured, he went up TO Me-
dina and satisfied himself that they were
really the murdereTs. The trial came off.
Silas hetcham, the hired man, pleaded nor
guilty, and SO also did his comrade. Tie
prosecuting attorney had heard the BOYS
story and began an address i'm which be de-
scribed everything the boy had related.
When he came to the part where the
Scotchman had been killed by Mrs. Evans
the prisoner started up and cried one
"0h, God Silas, we're lost-some orc
has seen MS. To the judge): will con-
fess. w hat Mr.. - SAYS is Gospel truth:
we did Kill them Nav Gnd h.,-, -.