St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-10-09
Two Odd Dreams.

Two Odd Dreams.
There resided at 407 West Eigh-
teenth street John A. Dillon, who had
been many years in the employ of
Messrs. Simpson, Crawford & Co. as Il
parcel and delivery clerk, his duties
being to receive the cash from drivers
for payment of bills and check the re-
turn of goods that had been sent out
for appreciation. The firm discovered
that there was something wrong in this
department but did not blame Dillon,
in whom they had the utmost conf
! dence. An investigation showed that
there had been peculations to IA large
amount, and one of the drivers and n
clerk were arrested and Dillon repri-
manded for his apparent carelessness,
though he was eXonerated from all
completely. This was on the oath of
February, 1883. On the following day,
being Sunday, Dillon went to the store
with Mr.. Crawford, and spent the day
examining the books, and about 6
O'Clock left for home. There had been
no unpleasant words passed between
the men, nor had anything been said,
| Mr.. Crawford AYERS, about holding
Dillon responsible in the affair, be-
yOnd rebuking him for carelessness,
and yet the latter went home very
much depressed, talked about his dis
grace, his fear of again meeting his
employers and dread of a discharge,
refused to eat his supper, and finally
retired at his usual time calmly. He
slept in separate room from Mrs.
Dillon, in consequence of two children
being i'll, but otherwise did not in the
slightest degree differ from his usual
| habit. And now comes in what Mrs.
| Dillon says. At about midnight she
| had an unpleasant dream, an undefin-
able one, in which nothing came out
distinctly, but simply the voice of
somebody shouting in warning tone /:
"Dillon is going away. Dillon is go
ing away !" The voice awaked her in
alright and she sprang to her feet and
made her way quickly to her husbands
room, where she found him quietly
sleeping, and after few minutes re-
tired again to her own room, feeling
how foolish it was to be frightened at
IA dream, and went to sleep again.
Early next morning Mrs. Dillon's
brother found the hall door open, and
without at all connecting the matter
with her husband she told her brother
of the dream, admitting that she could
not drive away the effect of it upon her
mind. He smiled off her depression,
and about an hour passed when Mrs.
Dillon went quietly to her husbands
room, it being his usual time to rise,
and was surprised to find he was not
there. Instantly inquiries were sent
on foot everywhere that he could have
possibly gone, but not the slightest
trace could be found. From this time
until the 25th of April nothing was
heard of him, but upon that day, two
months after his disappearance, his
body was found floating in the WAFER
at the foot of West Eighteenth street
within hundred yards of his dwell
ing, his coat pockets loaded with
bricks and with every indication about
it of suicide. The theory of his friends
and experts was that Mr.. Dillon, dis
turbed as he was with the occurrences of
the past two days, had arisen, perhaps
uncOnsciously, in his sleep, dressed
himself, gone forth, and being man
of nervous temperament, and, it is al
legged, fir quently suffering with acute
pains in the head, had committed the
act without the slightest knowledge OF
what he was doing. But does that ac-
count tor the wife's dreamG Here was
warning not warranted by the cir
! cumstances and not connected with
the events, for even after she had told
her brother and heard of the street
door being open, she did not regard
both as of sufficient Importance to
again make her look after hrr husband
until it was time to call him to riS1 fol
breakfast.
Annie Firmin is not well known in
New York, but her husband, John
Jack, is. A short time since the two
actors were upon western tour. An
ME is possessed of a bouncing boy
baby. This baby has been left at home
; with her mother, and the parents,
though they knew it was well taken
care of, were always anxious. Well
Annie is too intelligent and too mucl
) of a woman of the world, having trav-
l elled round it, not in 80 days but il
, five years, with her husband, to be su-
perstitiOus, but she has pet theory
:: that if she ever dreams of crossing
water something terrible is sure to hap
! pen Immediately. Now she was at {
far western point playing, when she
=. had this dream very vividly. OfcOurst
the mind of the mother ran directly t.
J, her child, and no reasoning or argu
3, ment had any effect. 1t was her baby
e her baby, and all her husbands assur
J, ances that baby was all right or tina
{ they would have heard of it, had no
effect. No, they were keeping bacl
the news of its sickness, or death, 81
$ as not to distress or alarm her, and sh'
II must go home, and home she went il
e spite of everything. She describes he
feelings on the way-utter conviction
that something had happened to th'
baby and her agony because expires
trains did not run faster and steam
boats fly through the air. At last New
York was reached at 2 o'clock on
morning, and the subject discusse'