Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1880-01-28
struck her twice on The head, She

they lifted the body aud carried !:
away out Of her sight, AiIerawhlle
they came back, found the bundle OF
Sunday 6nery and the shoes aud
stockings, all Of which we're stained
with blood, There was u ruined old
mill near the road they went Into It,
! lifted a Loose board 10 the flooring,
put the bundle, shoes, elcu With the
/ haichel, underneath, aud replaced the
board. Then they separated aud went
through The woods IN different dlrcc'
tlous, The farmers wife told her
husband that night the next day
Sunday, going to a little coan'ry
church, she remained during the III
lermisslon between the morning aud
afternoon services, The nplghhoN
who had come from = olrcglt Of TWEEN
~ miles 10 church, gathered, accord
me- 10 their homely habit, In the
ehuruhyard TO eat their lunch aud eS'
change the news, Our dreamer told
her story again aud again, tor she was
impressed by II as II Vt had been
roaity, Alter the afternoon service
the congregation separated going TO
their widcly-soi,iered homes. There
were thus many witnesses ready to
certify 10 the tact that the woman had
told the dream the morning after the
murder was eomm:I,ed at Il dis''hee
Of forty miles, whenit Sas absolutely
impossible that the news should lave
reached her. There were no lelc'
graphs, wo mus, remember an' no
railways in those doys, mol even
mail carriers in those secluded dis
,ricts.
When the story ol the girls dis
appeorance was told over the conltry
az the end OF tho next week, the pco-
pic 60 whom the dream had bceu re-
pca,cd recalled it. Nowadays the
matter would only serve as good
material Tor the reporters, hut the
men OF those days still believed 'ha,
God took an oversight even Of their
dreams, Might oot Thu he hint
from him 7 The Rev Charles Wheel
ct, Bsp,is, clergyman Of Washing
ton, well known in Western Penn.
sylvania and Virginia generation
ago. and Ephraim Blai", Esqo n
magistrate, father of the present SEN
stor from Maine, aud as popular a
man IN his narrower circle, drove over
to see the woman who had tod the
dream. Without stating their pur'
pose, they took her and her husband,
on pretoncc OF business, to the Ply.
n,ire farm. 1t was the first time in
her life that she had left her own
county, and she was greatly amused
and interested. They drove over the
whole of the road down which R"chel
Plymire had gone.
"Have you ever seen this nelghbor,
hood ?" one Of them asked.
"Never,' she replied.
That ended the matter, and they
turned back. taking a litte-used cross.
road TO save time. Presently the
woman started up in great agitation,
crying, "This is the place / dreamed
of! They assured her that Rachel
Plymire had not been upon that road
at all. "I know nothing about her."
she said, "bu, the cir! ] saw in my
dream came along here there IS the
path through which the man came,
and beyond that turning will find tine
LOG on which he killed her," They
did find the log, and on the ground
the stains of blood. The woman,
walking swiftly, led them to the old
mill and 20 the board under which
lay the stained clothes and the Ratchet
The girls body was found afterwards.
buried by creek near at hand. RAJ
chefs lover had already been arrested
on suspicion. 1t was limited that be
had grown tired of the girl, ard for
many reasons touud her bard to ,hake
off. The woman recognized him in
crowd OF other men, and startled her
companions still more by pointing out
another young fellow from the West
as his companion in her dream. The
young man was tried in the town Of
Washington for murder. The dream
err was brought into court, ard an
effort was actually made to put her
on the witness-stand but even then
men could not be hung on the evil
dence of dream. Without it there
was not enough proof for conviction,
and the jury unwilingly enough, we
may be sure, allowed the prisoner to