The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-10-24
MURDERS, and DREAMS
How Some Great Criminals We're Found Out
and Captured.
CLERGYMAA's DREAM Ay!ERTs A CRIME
A Nan Who Saw the Shooting OF Chan.
IlorPerccvn, Bcrorc It II appcncd
lin EARLY Times all Nations re.
snrdcd Dreams as Divine Reveals
lions.
(New York IIerald.)


The following story, vouchcd for by
DR.. Abcrcrombic, Is that of Il murder
directly discovered through the dream
of an innocent party.
During the investigation In the north
of Scotland. respecting an atrocious
murder committed on Il peddler, q man
came forward voluntarily and declared
that he had had dream in which there
was represented 10 him a house, onu a
voice directed him to q spot near the
house. On which there was buried tlhe
pack, or box for small articles OF amer
chandiZe. OF the murdered person On
search being made the pack was found
mot precisely at the spot where he
had mentioned, but very near It, The
first impression ON the minds OF the
public authorities was that he was
either the murderer or an accomplico III
the crime, bTt tho individual accused
was soon after clearly convicted. BE-
fore his execution he fully confessed
his crime, and in the strongest manner
cSculpatcd tho dreamer from any nur-
dlcipation In or knowledge OF the muir
der.
ANOTHER CASE
IN point Is we'll authenticated, though
the dream played no part in the actual
convection OF the murderer. On rbhe
night OF May 18th, 1872, a Wclshman,
named Williams. who lived near Red
ruth, In Cornw.ll II, woke his wife and
told her In great agitation Of q strange
dream he had Just had He treamsd
that he was in the lobby of the House
or Commons. He saw a small man en-
Her, dressed in blue coat and white
"hscont. Immediately after he saw n
man. dressed In n brown coat. with
yellow metal buttons, draw q pistol
from mis- coat and shoot the man who
nad Just entered. The latter instantly
rel TO the floor bleeding from n wound
eooVe the left breast. Sc saw the muir
derer seized by some gentlemen present
and observed his countcnance: and on
asking who the gentleman was that had
oeen shot, he was Informed that It was
Slr. Percevhl, the chancellor OF tho OK
cheQuer
During the course OF the night the
dream occurred to Mr.. Williams thrce
times without the least variations In
any OF the circumstances. The ncyI
cay ne related the dream to some
friends, and had scarcely finished ts,o
recital when the sound of n horse ral-
topping to the door Of the house was
Nenrd Immediately after n son OF Mr..
Williams entered the room and sail
Ih'it ne had galloped from Truro. where
ne had heard news OF the shooting or
chancellor Pcrceyal by q man called
Bellingham.
AENTdSTt THE ACCOMPLISHMENT
which this intelligence crested n, 4
somewhat subsidized. Mr. Williams dos.
cf!oed most infinitely the dress and an
!earance OF tho man whom he had seen
III ms dream fire the pistol at the chan
cellor, as also the appearance and dras,
OF the chancellor
St!anSc to say, Mr. Williams had
never seen the chancellor, nor had he
ever been In the House of Comrrons
"A oGut, SIX weeks after the event AIR
Williams visited the House of Commons
Tor the first time. Immediately that he
canc 10 the steps OF the entrance to the
ioony he said: This place is as dis
tiactly within my recollection, in my
cream, rs any room in my own house. .
ana ne made the same observation
when he entered the lobby. lie then
PORTED out the exact spot where Boil
lnSham STOOD when he fred, and also
mat which MI Perccval had reached
when he W." shot down The drcrs
ooth OF Mr.. Pcrceval and Rcllincham
agreed with the description given Nv
MI Williams, even in the minutes, mar
ticularS.
MURDER AvERTED BY 4 DREAM
lSut better than the discovery Of n
murderer was the prevention OF a muir
ut1 t'toui tne medium OF II dream.
Rev. Hubert Powys. a clergyman of
the Church of England. saved through
dream the life OF q young girl who
had loved not wisely but too well. lie
dld so at the iNs.gation CT n voice
which called him from sleep ono dark
and miserable night. He dreamed that
daughter OF one OF his narishioners
had Just left her home and gone ont
INTO the darkness 10 mct. her hetrayer.
VINO had promised TO meet her IN n Sc
cluded snot and take her to n placa of
refuge where her child might be born
in secrecy. The man was at the nee.
Ing place before the appointed hour and
spent the period Of waiting in digging
a grave.
The clergyman woke with n STAR.
and, springing out of bed. dressed ran
idly, and hurried TO the field in which
the meeting in the vision had taken
place. He arrived in time to see ,.ha
meeting OF the former lovers and TO sec
the man hurl the girl to rhc ground by
the side OF the grave and raise his
spade to dash her brains out The par