Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-13
DREAMS OF MURDER.
A Neighbor of senseny Sees
Him Killed
At the Livery Stable of VIM.
Wheatley.
His Body, Covered With Blood, is Pitched
Into an Old Well ON the Promises
and Covered Up.
Correspondence af.Chronicle.j

New Providence, Tenn, were inter-
ested in the disappearance of John
Senseny, q man OF good family,
living in the edge of Christian coun-
ty, KY, who had come 10 town for
the purpose of drawing money on
his tobacco. On arriving he put his
horse in the livery stable of William
Wheatley, which stable, so / am in
formed, was also used by b. F. Ma
dole. He had made an engagement
to go out that afternoon with Len.
H. Smith, an intimate friend of his,
both intending to travel the same
road for several miles. Smith being
in hurry, and finding that Senseny
was not about, left without him. The
next day as Smith was returning to
New Providence he found Senseny's
horse with the saddle and bride on,
grazing on the road, and on arrival
in town he made inquiry for Sense
ny, and finding no one who could
give an account of him or who had
seen him, the fear that he had been
foully dealt with soon gained suffi-
cient ground to cause the citizens to
organize a search. Parties for this
purpose went in all directions from
the town and every hole and hiding
place that fell under the eye of the
different parties was examined care
fully, but not trace or clue could be
found.
A few days later it was published
that he was shaved at a certain bar
Der shop the night Of his disappear
ance and was seen to take south
bound train. This took the mind of
the public from the matter. Never
theless his mother and immediate
family and friends who knew him
well, never accepted the idea that he
had left voluntarily without inform
ing them of the fact, besides the con-
dition of his business, after investi-
cation, and the fact that he was
known to be sound mentally when
last seen, was evidence to refute the
statement of his having been seen to
leave on train.
Time passed, and with it memory
of the incident had grown dim when
it was revived in the minds of few
by a remarkable dream had by Mr..
Thomas Collins, a neighbor of John
Senseny.
THE DREAM.
81 was standing in the stable of
Wheatley, when / looked up, and
before me stood John Senseny. .Dl-
rectly another man came stealthily
up behind him and struck him blow
which felled him to the earth. / saw
him struggle, then another blow was
struck, then gasp, culver of the
face and John Senseny was dead. l
was spellbound, transfiXed to the
spot and could utter no cry for re-
lief. They take him to a deep well
or cistern, and opening the top pitch
him in. look and / plainly recognize
the features of b. F. Madole as the
man who struck the blow, and who
stood at the well when the body was
thrown in. l give scream and
awake to find it dream.
Again l sleep and the scene is the
second time enacted before me. n "
Again l awake with horror; sleep
once more overtakes me, and the
third time 1 am compelled to witness
the awful crime"
The dream of Mr.. Collins is en-
closed in quotation marks and is re-
lated just as it was told me years ago
by his friend, to whom it was told
at the time.
A few of the friends of the missing
man knew of this dream and few
of them were in favor of examining
the premises surrounding the stable
of Madole. Shortly after the disap-
pearance of Senseny, Wheately sold
out and Madole became the owner of
the stable.
Years rolled by, and nothing was
done towards ascertaining if there
was any truth in the dream of Col
Inns. 1t was nothing but a drem, and
who was there willing to credit a
dream? Dreams, like the visits
of angels, ceased to be verified when
the last of the Apostles died. Man
since then can hold no communion
with the saints nor the spirits of dead
friends. Truth cannot be impaired
except through the mind in a
state freed from everything that
would tend to cloud it, and when one
sleeps the mind is in no condition to
receive an impression that would APP
pear to be verified in a moment of
wakefulness. Dreams belong to the
days of the prophets and to the DAYS
of Christ. To this age of intelligence
and enlightenment such things can
not be for moment considered any
more than the tales of Sinbad.
In 1889 Mr.. Add. Catlett, friend
and former neighbor of Senseny was
doing business in New Providence.