The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-15

voked the aid of bloodhounds. The trail
they followed was a devious and winding
one running from the Craig home on
Fayette street. north by northeast TO
Glen Oak park. thence in a westerly di
rection to Bradley park outside the citv's
limits and on it's western border. Here
the trail grew faint, and 1t was only with
difficulty that It was continued to tbe
EaSton farm, where 1t was lost and tha
dogs stopped and never after did thew
get any further
AT this juncture little Grace Holmes
appeared on the scene. She Is a child
about ten years old and especially BRIG bt
for her age. Her parents are uneduca1ed
people and not in the best of circum-
stances. but she has given scores of in
stances where it has been conclusivety
SHOWN that she is possessed of the most
extraordinary power in the matter of
cialrVoyance. She announced to the
grief-stricken family that while living In
her ped at nome more than a mile from
the Craig house she had seen the I'M
fortunate woman come out of the house
climb over the fence and make her way
Stealthily through the deserted Streets
and lonely alleys to the river, where she
had walked out on the ice and plunged
into an opening left my the icemen the
day before.
This statement was born out by the
the story technically as repeated on COM
ing down stairs In the morning, and that
this was long before she could possibly
nave had an opportunity of fearning the
facts in the case from any source what
sOeVer. The child was questioned closely
but she stuck to her story with a per-
sistence that began to disarm suspicion.
She described the garments worn by Mrs
Sommers at the time of her departure.
iSto
description proved to be entirely correct.
AT length in response to her earnest So
Hc1tations she was allowed to go out and
point out the resting place of the women
she insisted was in the river. She started
from the house accompanied by her ia
Their and others and followed the streets
she claimed to have seen Mrs. Sommers
follow until she came to the foot Of
Spring street. =.
From there she pointed out the exact
spot at which Mrs. Summers had gone
down. She said that she walked calmly
into the water and went down, down,
down. until finally she disappeared alto
gether. The next night She saw the body
again. It rose slowly from the bottom
of the river, being ca1ghlt in an eddy,
and after whirling around several times
moved away slowly down the stream,
sometimes floating and sometimes rolling
along the river bed. Once, according to
her story, it stood erect IN the water but
did not rise to the surface.
At her request she was then taken to a
point at the foot of Fayette street By
this time the. news of the child's attempt
had become noised abroad and the river
bank was lined with thousands of spec
tatorS eager and anxious to see what the
outcome would be- After sitting quietly
in her place for a few moments she rose,
quickly and with a hurried gesture point
ed to a spot few hundred feet from
the shore, exclaiE1ing as she did so: She
lies there"
The scene was intensely dramatic The
lowering clouds the wind-tosSed waters
of the lake and the hushed murmur of the
multitude in the midst of which stood a
frail child pointing steadfastly at the
troubled waters all made picture not
soon to be forgotten. The multitude
broke up ard a dragging party was at
once put to work searching the hidden
depths to wrest from them their secret
The hour passed, the afternoon and the
day, but nothing was brought from the
lake. In strict justice 1t must be said
that the dragging process was not car
ried on according to her directions. She
now declares that the net never touched
the body reposing on the bottom of the
lake.
When 1t was known that the dragging
had been unproductives those who had
based their faith on theechilds judgment
began to WAIVER and she was denounced
as fraud of the most pronounced type.
Then winter set In and the lake was lock-
ed in ice and the matter began to fade
from the public mind Not so the little
girl. II was useless to tell her that she
must be mistaken.
She declared that the body was still in