Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-06-01
A STRANGE DREAM.

What n DetroItor Saw In His Sleep and
What Transpirod the Next Day.
They were talking about fortune.
tellers, clairvoyants and such at de-
tcctive headquarters the other day when
a citizen who was present said:
mo doubt they hit the nail on the
head now and then, but l prefer to trust
to dreams"
At this there was general laugh,
but his face was very serious as he con-
tinued:
""Do any of you remember the So
called Weber case which happened
about twelve years ago on the Clevc-
land & Pittsburgh road? No? Well, l
had dream in connection with that
case which may interest you. | stopped
one night at Cleveland before taking
the train for Pittsburgh l slept
soundly until after midnight and then |
had strange dream. l thought l had
taken the train. In the same car was
a man about thirty years of age and a
woman fifteen years older. They
were man and wife. He was dissi.
patci-looking fellow, while she was a
well-preserved woman with many
natural graces and evidently in fear OF
him. That is he never addressed her
except in rough, petulant tone, and
Whenever he spoke she drew away as
il fearful OF a blow.
II dreamed that had watched them
for an hour or two when waiter en-
tered the car and announced supper.
1t was just growing dark, and it was a
winters evening. lpassed to the din
ing-car alone, and had finished my
meal and was on my way back when
met the pair. Five minutes later the
report went through the train that the
wife had fallen from the platform OF
the dining-car as the couple were about
to pass in. Tha train was stopped and
backed up, and after u long hunt her
body was found on the rocks at the
foot of an embankmcnt, bruised, bleed
ing and lfelcss. The man told a very
plausible story of how the accident &C.
Cured, but the effort he made to ap.
pear agitated and broken up convinced
me that he was her murderer. He left
the train ut the first station to have the
poor manglcd remlins cared for and
saw him no more. He was tall, dark.
eyed man, with black hair, scar or
his cheek, and wore diamond pin
He had cuf-buttons with wv en-
graved on them, and there was long
and bloody scratch on the back of the
right hand.
"Now, then, on the afternoon of the
next day took the train for Pitts
hugh, and the first people | saw in the
parlor car as entered were the two
of whom had dreamed. Both looked
at me with start OF surprise, and In
telling you the solemn truth that thu
man turned pale ps l looked iato hi
eyes. You are prepared to anticipate
what followed, but there were som'
changes from my dream. When sup
per was announced did not 60 on il
advance, but waited for the couple t
precede me. The man looked sharpl,
at me as they went out, but was bus!
with newspaper, as if l did not in
tend to go in to supper. They were
no sooner out than followed. 1 wa
only ten feet behind them as the!
passed out on the platform of the ca
ahead, and as l opened the door Their
was a shrek from the darkness, an
the man, standing alone on the plat
form, shouted at me:
Great God but my wife has fallel
off the platform'
1.-The train was stopped, backed up
and we found the poor body as ha
dreamed. 1t was placed in the bag
gage-car, and as the husband bent owe
it, seeming to try his best to shed tears
l boldly denounced him. rs
"'You are her murderer! I e1
claimed. You pushed her off tn
platform! Look at that scratch on you
hand where she caught at you in val
effort to save herself! You threw he
to her death!
"He looked at me with an expires
sion of terror and dismay, but coul
not utter word. picked up his III
resisting hand and looked ut his cuf
button. 1t was marked with w
, At the next station he wa' placed IN
/, der arrest for murder His name wa
=, William Weber, of st. Louis. II
: neither denied nor affirmed his gull
but he had no sooner been locked u
!, than saw had gotten myself into
Il box. was to be detained rs wi
ness, and the only straight testimor
= against him was dream. Before Il
p sheriff could get hold of me 1 hi
e skipped the neighborhood. and in
i day or two, rs | afterwards learne
y Weber was set at liberty and went /
/ way, the body having been buried
e the village graveyard. 1t was as Gle
II case of murder rs was ever know
and had things been managed right
first he would probably have confess
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