The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-06-29
BETRAYED
THROUGH DREAMS.

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tracing of a criminal by means of
dream recently occurred in st. Louis.
A woman named Mary Thornton was
detained in custody fora month charged
with the murder of her husband. A
week or so after her arrest she re-
quested to see one Of the prison officials
and told him she had dreamed that an
! individual 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 obvious earnes,ness that
search was at once made for him.
After some delay he was traced ald
and charged with the crime, the details
of the same as seen in the dream being
rehearsed to him. Overcome with as
tonishment, he then and there confessed
that he had committed the crime and
was, of course, arrested and is now
awaiting his trial. Curiously enough,
the woman had only met the murder
er once, and believed him to be on
the very best terms with her husband
as that the dream is the more inexpli-
cable
| Almost as remarkable was the case
of a woman named Drew, who earl y in
the present century dreamed one night
that her husband, retired sailor, had
been murdered by peddler at a
Gravesend tavern, where the same hus-
band 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 assassinated at the
very tavern she had seen in her extra
ordinary vision, whereupon she burst
into hysterical tears and cried out that
her dream had come true.
She Gained down somewhat after Il
few hours and then handed the police
officials an exact description of the
peddler of the vision, giving a minute
account of his dress. which included a
blue coat of a very peculiar pattern.
Marvellous as the fact may appear, a
man wearing such coat, and follow
the occupation of a peddler was discov-
cred two days later at an inn some six
miles from Gravesend, and, on being
taxed with the crime, he at once ad-
mitted that he was guilty and that
robbery had been the motive for the
outrage. He was hanged soon after
wards, his doom having been brought
about by the flimsy evidence of q
woman's dream.
Women as dreamcrs seem more sue
cessful than men. but a rather peculiar
instance of crime being traced by 4
vision, and in which the dreamer was
a member of the male sex, comes from
Rennes, in France( where the famous
Dreyfus trial was held). A worthy
merchant, having quilted his office one
Saturday evening, proceeded home to
; dinner, and. after enjoying substan-
tial meal, lay down on the couch and
fell into light doze. A vivid dream
then came to him, wherein he saw two
men of the burglar type engaged in
rifing the safe in his office, and so much
impressed was he by the vision, that he
resolved, upon awakening, to go to the
office at once and see that everything
was under lock and key.
His amazement may he imagined
when, on arriving there, he discovered
the door forced and burglary actual
ly in progress. To summon a couple
of gendarmes was the work of an in
slant, 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 extraordinary story. In view
of the fact that the safe contained valu-
ables to the extent of some few thou
sands of pounds, the dream in ques-
tion proved 4 very fortunate one for
the dreamer.
How to explain these marvellous
manifestations, which proved once
more than truth is stranger than iic-
ton, is task beyond the ingenuity of
man to compass. Perchance the theo-
ry of telepathy may have something to
do with the mysterious business. but
even that theory would appear rather
inadequate in such cases as the afore
mentioned.
\ skillful forger who moved in the
highest circles of society was once de-
tccted by the agency of a dream.
The affair occurred in Boston, and
caused the greatest excitement of The
time.
The forgcr, a young man of eight
or nine and twenty, had become ac-
quaintcd with rich publisher, at
whose house he became constant
guest. One day the publishers bank
ers discovered that some one was forg
ing their clients signature to various
large checks and two detectives were at
once instructed to look out for the cul-
prit.
Their efforts proved useless, but one
J evening the publishers youngest