The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-17
DETECTED BY DREAMS:
Remarkable Instances ofthe Locating
OF Guilt.
From the Globe Democrat.

markable records Of this kind il connected
with a muir Ter trial which took ace IN
| E gland early in the reign Of the frs
| Chai les. Sir John MAYNARD. o G Of the
| first lawyers of the centu Y, is the authority
| for the supernatural events the IT al, al3
| in his quai t preface to his notes he says
| he thought good to report the evide c.
which was given, which many did hear
| that the memory thereof might not be
lost Y misca -riage Of papers or otherwise"
One Johan Norket', a flrmers wife, hal
died, and at the cO-Dnar's y lest evidence
was given proving that the vs. mans throat
I'D been cut from ear to ear. At first the
jury favored a verdict % feiO de Sc, and the
body was inferred But rImors became
general pointing o foul play, AID tbs body
was eXhumed.
Thirty DAYS after the death the jury as
sembled before the body, and four sus-
pected persons were brought in. The only
evidence against tue prisoners was tina
they had S ept IN adjOlnInr room and
that no me had pass d through tina ~
thereto e, If she did not urder herself
they must DO the murierers.n " nat TO k
place at the reml ~kable pOSt-mOrtem in
quiry may best be- described in the words
of a witle-s at tle subsequent trial. VINO
was describ as IAN anci mt aid grave
person mini ter 70 the parish where this
murder was ,omnitted.n This estimabla
gentleman said: They the prsoners) did
touch the dead body, W ereupon the brow
of the dead, iCh was before livid coior
began to have q dew or gentle sweat arise
upon it which creased by degrees till the
sweat ran down in dro IS uDon the face, the
brow turned and changed to a lively colo~
and the dead OF enet and shut one of her
eyes and SHUT 1t again, which she did three
several times. She likewise thrust 1t he
ring or marriage finger three times ID
uled 1t Ia agalh, and the fling r dropped
bl Cd on the grOu a."
Natur lily ough such remarkable evil
ience AS this was rec eivei VITA some sus-
Dicion by re court, a tn ugh the witness,
again q tote Sir John Maynard, wv IS
'evere d person, about 70 years of age, as
could be guessed. His ties .im0ny was de-
lvered gravely and tempera civ, but to the
great admiration of the aulItory." Ample
confirmation Of an obviously impartial
character was however forthc ming, and
the "admiratlonn changed to horror, SO
much so that the prisoners were convicted
aud two of them suffered death at the hand
OF the common hangman. Neither of the
victims, one or whom was an aged woman,
iuld ever be prevailed upol to confess any
comuhcity in the crime.
or much more recent date was the record
Of the RED Barn Murder" remarkable for
the fact that the murder wa, discovered
4
n drea a. The victim of the murder was
rustic beauty named Maria Marten, who
was source of perpetual jealousy among
the young men in a village near the En-
glish east coast. Maria's father was a mole
catcher, but the girl was educated beyond
he average of village maidens. Her first
accepted lover was rich young mal
AIMED John Gordon, who led girl from
the paths of vi tue and then abandoned he
y
IN turn was displaced bY Villa Corde1, a
rother of John. Under promise Of mar
riage Miss Marte1 was again led as6rav,
and, when she found herself soon t. become
a IN lther, she nportuned her betrayer to
fulfill his promise. Gordon tired of this
and, going to the house one evening. ar
ranged with great detail to run off with tn,
girl to neighboring city, where they were
TO be secretly married. The girl gladly
N ened, and agreed TO meet her lover at
red barn on his mothers farm. Cordel
met her there, aid, in compliance with
prearranged scheme, shot and RE her.
He then disappeared, returni z after
few days a dexplani lg the mole catcher
that the marriage h al taken place and that
ms bride was in lodgings at Ipswich.
Months passed away, the barn under which
the body lay was filed with graz /, and vet
no tldings came from Ma la Young Cor
den, however, explained that she hal hurt
her right hand, and c)uld not write He
subsequently, left the neighhorhood. Ole
light Mrs Marten drea ue1 that her daugh
ter had been murd red by Gordon, a dt6at
the body was i TERED under the barn.
Tue dream was repeated 50 frequently that
she repeated 1t to the mole catcher. who
after many .refusls and much ri licule.
finally went to the barn, got the grain re-
m we'd, and commenced TO dig at the snot
indicated in the dream. The body was i'm
mediately discovered and identified. Sds-
plcio of course, p inted to Corde1, VIII ,
was traced TO London, where he h id m r.
r ed schoolmlstreSs and was living OF her
earnings. He was arrested, convicted. and
executed 1t is remarkable p oof of the truth
II this story that Mrs. Marten applied to a
] ,stice of the peace for a war; .nt against
Gordon three m )nths before she CO verts
her skeptcal husband to a belief in he
drea u.
In l751 an Irish murderer was convicted
largely upon dream evidence A Waterfor
publican named Rogers dreamed one uigh5
that he saw a m IN murder another man GA
green spot on the sum nit of an adjoining
mountain. He vas able next dav to de-
| scr be both men with perfect accuracy. and
| did SO to many of his friend, One of the
| men was exceptionally strong, the ner
weak an puny, but it was the latter who
| II tue vision, committed the murder
lNos 10 rolS duSu lHe parish priest to ac-
company him to the rot, which he fnund
without difficulty, but ere the g SCENE /
to be no traces of murder or struggle
Hence Rogers got rather laughed at Next
day, however, two men entered the salo IN
and Mrs. Rogers q once recognized them
from her husbands description as the heroes
in the vision. Much alarmed, she fetched
her husband, VINO was also certain they
were the two men. When they r $50 to
leave Rogers begged the one he expected {,
be murdered to remain, but without avail.
He nearly tainted with fright after the men
had II, Il ii ally pers AIDED a neighb r
| TO accompany him to he green spoo on the
hill, where, sure enough, tue tragedy of the
dream had taken place in reality. The
murderer was tracked an caught and
Rogers was the p iIcipal witness His re-
| cital or his dream was SO vivid that the
prisoner at o &c confesse aiding that he
killed his companion exactly as fore,od in
the dream. The weapon used was a knife.
and as eight stabs were see bv Rogers ,
| his vision, SO the murderer limited that
| he drove MS knife up to the handle in his
/ companions body exactly that number of
/ times.
A remarkable interposition of providence
| is on rec I'd in Paris. Ia 1866 a youn p
! peasant girl went TO Paris and as hired as
domesti servant by man whose reputa-
ton was excellent but ~ no W as hvpocrite
| ahd a lbertlne. He made improper D %
posals 10 the young girl, who refused to
understand his meaning or give him any