The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-01
MAN IN DREAM
LOCATES DUNN
Discovers the House to Which
He Went After Escape.
IT WAS ONLY A VISION
Dream Came te Him Three
Nights in Succession.
IT WAS ONLY A VISION

ne uItdEneQ three nights IN succession
that Dunn was in house-No. 1897 on a
certain street.
He told Howard Wheeler about his
dream, but Mr.. Wheeler positively re-
fused yesterday to tell an Eagle reporter
the name OF the dreamer-or the details
of the dream.
4 promised my friend he said never
TO tell what he told me. and never shall
without his permission"
But you went TO see the house didn' I
your
I must admit" said Mr.. Wheeler.
that 1 did"
And that everything your friend saw
in his dream was absolutely seen. by
you?
Yes, 1 must admit that, too. thought
1t was a joke first but myself and my
wife drove down
1T is south. then?"
Mr.. Wheeler baked here and would not
say another word about Dunn or his
friends dream.
4 reporter for the Ia gle learned from
another source few ADDITIONAL details
Ii was few nights after Dunn's escape
that Mr. Wheelers friend dreamed that
he discovered the much sought after
sick man. The house in which he was
&
knob. the bedstead, and everything stood
wildly before his sleeping eyes. but the
most vivid thing of all was the house
number-l337.
lie paid attention to this dream and
went about his business willing that
Harry Sutton. Charley Simmons and
other official gentlemen should attend,
exclusively, to the. case of Mr.. Dunn.
The next night he went TO bed again
rs sober as a judge and Morpheus soon
had him in her embrace. He saw that
house again aid Eaw well known profess
sional men here in town enter it, He
then ran up town as fast as his legs
could carry him and rushed to his tele-
phone
quick, he shouted.
My God, Dear. what are you calling
up the police station for?' asked his wife
IN an alarmed tone.
He thought it was the pie he ate down
town, turned over and went to sleep
again.
The next night he carried on awfuil-r
in his sleep. He had seen the house and
Dunn again.
My Dear" said his wife, you are
keeping secret from me-"
He protested that it was a foolish
dream.
You have a skeleton dear" she said,
sand for three nights it has haunted
you"
IT'S only a dream-that banana for
supper he said.
He thought he felt a tear drop on his
shoulder and was miserable. but sleep
soon came TO his relief and that was the
end Of ii.
The next day he met Mr.. Howard
Wheeler and told him Of bis troubles and
his dreams.
M Wheeler told Mrs Wheeler about
& and the more they thought and talked
over the matter. the more their interest
was aroused. And then out of curiosity
they agreed to drive down" TO the scene
in the dream. There they recognized
the house at once. There was something
peculiar about it. There was no sign of
life there. It had apparently been de-
serted and yet there were new curtains
on the Windows-all drawn down.
After the text of this story was told
Mr.. Wheeler, his lips were sealed tighter
than ever.
7 cannot tell you whether it is true in
detail or not" he said; I simply can't
tell you, l am as good as sworn to
secrecy. ] viii say. however. that while
] do not believe in dreams what my
friend told me. and what / afterwards
saw ia confirmation of it, set me to think
Ing. And ] am thinking yet about it."
II was the belief held by not few
DN almost everybody puL the poHGe-tne
morning that Dunn escaped. that he was
still iu town. The police protested
vehemently that he WASH THAT he was
fifty miles away. And yet two nights
after that the police searched the homes
of DR. Cave and Col. Amidon. for Dunn
That action was peculiarly inconsistent
with the talk the officers made the
morning after the escape. And in about
q week after that an officer told an Eagle |
reporter that il they had searched a Ger
tain house the night after the escape Of
Dunn they would have found him.
Was there a smallpox sign. or a scar
let fever card on that house2" asked the |
Eagle reporter
The officer looked like man who had
caught a new idea. for he looked far
away and remained silent. IL was after
wards learned that "a thorough investiga- |
zion had been made Of the conta gious dis |
ease signs tackled up since the morning of
Dunn's escape.
The signs would probably have been
put up "A week or ten days before the |
escape had il been the plan to conceal /
Dunn behind q scarlet fever or smallpox !
card And that would not be a bad place /
l. hide a man. at the same time. giving /
physician an opportunity 10 visit him /
without arousing suspicion.
For a week or ten DAYS after the es-
cape. there was persistent belief that 1
Dur-n was in wichita. Ii is believed by /
gone that he is suin here
Il hee
He was last seen here and has been
seen nowhere else. He escaped at > /
O'Clock in the morning IN a fearful storm. /
lie would have 10 be taken away in q 1
closed carrlage-an unusual vehicle out
aide OF the city. No living man has re- I
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