The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-06-09

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CRIMINALS BETRAYED THROUGH DREAMS.
A very remarkable instance of the
tracing of a criminal by means of a
dream recently occurred it St. Louis.
A woman named Mary Thornton was
detained in custody for a month,
charged with the murder of her hus-
| band. A week or so after her arrest
| she requested to see one of the prison
officials and told him she had dream
ed that an Individual named George
Ray had murdered her spouse, giving
the official at the same time full de-
tails 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 earnestness
that search was at once made for
| him.
After some delay he was traced
and charged with the crime, the de-
tails of the same as seen in the dream
being rehearsed to him. Overcome
with astonisllment, he then and there
confessed that he had committed the
crime aud was, of course, arrested
and is now awaiting his trial. Curl
ously enough, the woman had only
met the murderer once, and believed
him to be on the very best of terms
with her husband, so that the dream
is all the more inexplicable.
Almost as remarkable was the case
of woman named Drew, who early
in the present century dreamed one
night that her husband, retired
sailor, had been murdered by ped
dler at Gravesend tavern, where the
said husband was in the habit of put
ting up when visiting the town in
question. The first news that await
ed her on rising in the morning was
that her spouse had been assassinated
at the very tavern she had seen III her
extraordinary vision, whereupon she
burst into hysterical tears and cried
She calined down somewhat after
a few hours and then handed the po-
lice officials an exact description oi
the peddler of the vision, giving a
minute account of his dress, which in
cluded blue coat of very peculiar
pattern. Marvellous as the fact may
appear, man wearing such a coat,
and following the occupation of ped
dler was discovered two days later at
an inn some six miles from Graves
end, and, on being taxed with the
crime, he at once admitted that he
was guilty and that robbery had been
the motive of the outrage. He was
hanged soon afterwards, his doom
having been brought about by the
fiimsy evidence of a woman S dream.
Women as dreamers seem more
successful than men, but rather pc
culiar instance of crime being trac-
ed by a vision, and in which the
dreamer was a member of the male
sex, comes from Rennes, in France
(where the famous Dreyfus trial was
heidi. A worthy merchant, having
quilted his Office one Saturday even
ing, proceeded home to dinner, and,
after enjoying a substantial 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 engaged in
rihing 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 be imagined
when, on arriving there, he discover
ed the door forced and burglary ac-
tually in progress. To summon cou-
pie of gendarmes 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 prosecu-
tor told his extraordinary story. In
view of the fact that the safe contain
ed valuables to the extent of some
thousands of pounds, the dream in
question proved very fortunate one
for the dreamer.
How to explain these marvellous
manifestations, which prove once
more that truth is stranger than fc-
ton, is a task beyond the ingenuity
of man to compass. Perchance the
theory of telepathy may have some
thing to do with the mysterious busi-
ness, but even that theory would ap-
pear rather inadequate in such cases
as the aforementioned.
A skillful forger who moved in the
highest circles of society was once de-
tected by the agency of a dream.
The affair occurred in Boston, and
caused the greatest excitement of the
time.
The forger, young man of eight
or nine and twenty, had become ac-
quainted with a rich publisher, at
whose house he became constant
guest. One day the publisher bank
ers discovered that some one was
forging their clients signature to va
rious large checks and two detectives
were at once instructed to look out
for the culprit.
Their efforts proved useless, but
one evening the publishers young
est daughter, a little girl of eleven,
dreamed that she saw a man whom
she described as like Mr.. -"
the visitor to whom reference has
been made, sitting in room in Maine
street copying her fathers signature.
The chi1d's dream was communicated
TO the police, who. though inclined to