The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-01-28
TRACKED By a DREAM.
Daughters of Rebekah Cause the Ar
rest of o Recreant Husband.

New York Jan ga wonderful
story Of the capture through detective
work done by a woman in dream is
involved in the arrest at Ogden, Utah,
Of Rev w I'll. Springfield a Baptist
minister Of Dunton, l. T., who, it is said.
deserted his wife last July.
1T the time Springfield went away his
Wife's niece. Mary Frances KerEhaW a.
beautiful school teacher, p years old
disappeared. She had with her S., 900,
her own money
The missing clergyman whose move
ments were revealed to his wife in
dreams. was run down with the help of
the women's branch of the Odd Fellows
order known as the Daughters of Re
belah. They tracked him from state to
state Five hundred women in all
worked ON the case and succeeded in
locating the man.
Springfield is in the hands OF the police
at Ogden. Where his missing niece.
Miss Kershaw, is, was not known to his
wife 1t has happened that several
members OF the Kershaw family have
been murdered, and her cousins fear that
There is nothing, however. ON which to
base such a belief
IN February last Miss Kershaw's
uncle. Samuel Wansey, died, leaving
about $4,000 to her. The following
month Mr. Springfield announced that
his health had broken down, and sug-
gested that the three Of them travel
through the west
1--WE went to Oklahoma city" Mrs
Springfield said. land there my husband
bought a prairie schooner and horses.
We went out on the plains to rough it.
We trekked through Oklahoma, Indian
Texas. and finally reached wyoming.
I'VE lived in a tent and in the wagon.
having the kind Of time gypsies might
have. On July last we were at Raw
Inns, Wyo. Our money was nearly all
gone, and we were tired Of our prairie
schooner life
Mr. Springfield said the best thing he
could do was to go UP to Cape Nome
and make his fortune. I cried, and said
he'd get smallpox there and no gold
but he said he was determined to GO
He wanted me to stay in Rawlinss but,
as knew no one there I said I'd go
back to my friends at Dunton.
Then Miss Kershaw said that as we
We're breaking up the party, she'd go to
Ogden and get a position as a school
teacher We separated nve days later
When came back to Dunton had
a dream that my husband was In Cali
fornia- I saw him riding on q wagon
Then I remembered that Miss Kershaw
had left a box Of her effects at Center
vile, Pa I wrote to the woman there
who had them and she replied saying
that a few days before she had sent the
box to Antioch, Cal, at Miss Kershaw's
request.
II am member Of the Daughters Of
Rebekah, a WOman's society. / wrote to
the mobiles grand OF the order at An
noch, RaWl1nS and Ogden, asking them
to try and find some trace OF the missing
ones.
cat this time had a remarkable
dream. Miss Kershaw came to me In
my sleep-pale. with long hair streaming
down her back. She said she had lost
all her money and that her life was
wrecked. She cried piteously and asked
me to take compassion upon her
AT the same time I saw a stout man
In my dream arresting my husband"
When a reporter told Mrs. Springfield
that her husband had been arrested she
wept bitterly She did not know what
the charge against him could be. a few
days ago she sent to the chief Of police
Of Ogden photographs Of both the miss
ing. ones. saying that she would like to
have them found