Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1900-05-04
VISIONS THAT RESULTED IN THE CAP
TURE OF CRIMINALS.


but the prison authorities were so
much impressed by the woman's OBJ
vious earnestncss 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 in the dream being
rehearsed to him. Overcome with as
| constituent, lie then and there CON
| fessed that he had committed the
crime. Curiously enough, the woman
had only met the murderer once and
believed him to be on the very best OF
terms with her husband.
Almost as remarkable was the case
| Of a woman named Drew, who dream
| ed one night that her husband, a re-
| tired sailor, had been murdered by a
peddler at a 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 asSaSSinated at
| the very tavern she had seen in her ex-
| traOrdinary vision, WhereupOn she
burst into hysterical tears end cried
out that her dream had come true
She Gained down somewhat after a
| few hours and then handed the police
| officials an exact DIES "iptiOn Of the
peddlcr OF the vision, giving minute
| account Of his dress, which included 81
| blue coat Of a very peculiar pattern.
| Marvellous as the fact may appear. a
man wearing such coat and follow
| ing the occupation Of a pGddlCr was
| discovered two days later at an inn
some six miles from Graveaepd, 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 aft
erWard, his doom having been brought
about by the fimsy evidence Of q Wom-
ans dream.
| Women as droamers seem more sue
| ceSsfuI than men, but a rather peculiar
| instance Of 4 crime being traced by a
vision and in which the dreamer was q
member Of the male sex comes from
Rennes, In France. \ worthy, mer-
! chant, having quilted his office one
| Saturday evening, proceeded home to
!
! tial meal lay down on the couch and
! fell into a light doze. \ very vivid
! dream then came to him wherein he
| saw two men of the burglar type Ell
gagged In ritling the safe in his office,
! and so much impressed was he by the
| vision that he resolved, upon awaken
! ing, to at once 90 to the office and see
| that everything was undertook and key.
His amaZemCnt may be imagined
when, on arriving there, he discovered
| the door forced and a burglary i'll prog
ress. To summon a couple Of gen
darmcs was the work Of an instant,
and five minutes later the thieves, who
proved to be notorious housebrcakers,
were on their way to the police depot,
where the prosecutor told his eXtraOr-
binary story. In view Of the fact that
the safe contained valuables to the eX-
! tent Of some thousands Of pounds, the
dream in question proved a very for
! tunate one for the dreamer.
| How to explain these marvellous man
| ifestatiOns. which prove once more
| that truth is stranger than fiction, is a
! 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
III such cases IS the Aforementioned.
4 Skiiifui fUrger who moved III the
highest circles of society was once de-
tcctcd by the agency of a dream. Tie
affair occurred in Boston and caused
the greatest excitement of the time.
The fOrger, young man of eight or
nine and twenty. had become acquaint-
ed with 4 rich publisher. at whose
house be became q 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 lock ont for the cUlprit.
Their efforts proved useless. but one
evening thepuh!isber's Youngest daugh-
ter little girl Of II. dreamed that
she saw man whom she described as
like Nj Blank" the visitor to whom
reference has been made, sitting in a
room in Maine street copying her IA
Tiers signature. The chilQ'S dream
was communicated to the police, who,
though Inclined to ridiculc the same at
the outset, eventually promised to have
the gentleman in question watched,
with the result that his lodgings were
raidcd and 4 complete plant for the
making Of bank notes found there. It
:hen tranSpircd that he was man who
was wanted for manifold foTgerCs
throughout the Union. and he was sent
to prison for 4 very long term.
The child's dream was all the more
extraordinary in view of tie fact that
she was too young to understand the
leading incidents of the business and
attributed the copying Of her fathers
sigma ture in the dream to the ''gCHtlp-
man wanting to write nicely, like papa.
Strange, very strange. but none the less
true, and proving once more tEat, a.
Hamlet remarked. "There are moro
things in heaven and earth. HOratio
than are dreamed OF in your phloso
y."-Philadelphia Times.
The Fence VIII Stay.
Two AtchiSOn men decided recently
9hat their property would look better
with no dividing fence between anG
took it down 1t was down q week