Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-12-15
SOME QUEER DREAMS.
VISIONS THAT RESULTED IN THE CAP
TuRE or CRIMINALS.

I buIltN .ndtl WIS utlulHtn
In custody for a month, charged with
| the mLrder of her husband. \ week
| or 50 after her arrest she requested TO
see one of the prison officials and told
| him she had dreamed that an individ-
ual named George Ray had murdered
| her spouse, giving the official at the
same time full details of the tragedy
as witnessed in her vision. The man
Ray was not suspected at the time,
but the prison authorities were so
much impressed by the woman's OBJ
| vious earnestness that search was at
once made for him.
After some delay he was traced and
charged with the crime, the details Of
the same as seen ia the dream being
| tonishmeDt, he then and there con-
fcssed that he had committed the
crime. Curiously enough. the woman
had only met the murderer once and
/ believed him to be Oh the very best of
terms with her husband.
| Almost as remarkable was the case
of womun named Drew, who dream
! th OhS bi6ht tiht it-
tired sailor, had been murdered by a
peddler at Gravesend tavern, where
the said husband was In the habit of
putting up when visiting the town in
question. The first news that awaited
her on rising in the morning was that
| her spouse had been assa assinated at
the very tavern she had seen in her ex-
/ trnn N VOL m ha
burst into hysterical tears and cried
out that her dream had come true.
| She calmed down somewhat after n
few hours and then handed the police
| officials an exact description of the
| peddler of the vision, giving minute
account of his dress, which included n
| blue coat of very peculiar pattern.
Marvellous as the fact may appear, a
man wearing such coat and follow
ing the occupation of a peddler was
discovered two days later at an inn
some six miles from Gravesend, and
on being taxed with the crime, he at
once admitted that he was guilty and
that robbery had been the motive Of
| the outrSse. He was hanged soon aft
erward his doom having been brought
about by the fiimsy evidence Of a wom-
ans dream.
Women as dreamers seem more sue
cessful than men, but a rather peculiar
instance of crime being traced by a
vision and In which the dreamer was u
member of the male sex comes from
| Rcnnes, in France. 4 worthy mer-
chant, having quilted his office one
| Saturday evening, proceeded home to
dinner and nfter enjoying substan-
tial meal lay down on the couch and
| fell into light doze. A very vivid
dream then came to him wherein he
saw two men of the burglar type en-
gagged in riding the safe in his Office,
| and so much impressed was he by the
vision that he resolved, upon awaken
ing, to at once go to the office and see
that everything was undertook and key.
His amazemont may be imagined
when, on arriving there, he discovered
the door forced and burglary in prog
| ress. To summon couple of gen.
darmes was the work of an instant,
| and five minutes later the thieves, who
| proved TO be notorious housebreakers,
were on their way to the police depot,
| where the prosecutor told his extraor-
dinary story. In view of the fact that
| tue safe contained valuables to the ex-
tent Of some thousands of pounds, the
dream in question proved very for
| tunate one for the dreamer.
| How TO explain these marvellous man
ifestations, which prove once more
4, that truth is stranger than fiction. is
task beyond the ingenuity of man to
/ compass. Perchance the theory of te-
lepathy may have something TO do with
the mysterious business, but even that
theory would appear rather inadequate
in such cases as the aforementioned.
A skillrul forger who moved in the
highest circles OF society was once de-
tected by the agency of dream. The
affair occurred in Boston and caused
the greatest excitement of the time.
The forger a young man Of eight or
nine and twenty, had become acQuaint
ed with rich publisher. at whose
house he became Il constant guest One
day the publishers bankers discovered
that some one was forging their clients
signature to various large checks, and
two detectives were at once instructed
to look out for the culprit.
Z Their efforts proved useless, but one
evening thepubllshers youngest daugh-
ter. little girl of II, dreamed that
, she saw man whom she described as
like Mr.. Blank" the visitor to whom
| reference has been made, sitting in a
room in Maine street copying her ia
Tiers signature. The child's dream
was communicated to the police, who,
though inclined TO ridicule the same ut
the outset, eventually promised to have
the gentleman n question watched
with the result that his lodgings were
raided and n complete plant for the
making of bank notes found there. 1t
then transpired that he was man who
was wanted for manifold forgeres
throughout the Union, and he was sent