The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-25
SOME QUEER DREAMS.
VISIONS THAT RESULTED IN
 THE CAPTURE

Man to Explain and Which Prove
 Anew That Truth is Stranger Than
 Fiction.
 A very remarkable instance of the tracing of a criminal by means of a dream occurred in St. Louis. A woman named Mary Thornton was detained in custody for a month, charged with the murder of her husband. A week or so after her arrest she requested to see one of the prison officials and told him she had dreamed that an individ- ual 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 ob- yious earnestness that asearch was at once made for him.
 After some delay he was traced and charged with the crime, the details or the same as seen in the dream being rehearsed to him. Overcome with as- tonishment, he then and there con- fessed that he had committed the crime. Cautiously 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 woman named Drew, who dream ed one night that her husband, 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- i traordinary vision, whereupon she
 burst into hysterical tears and cried out that her dream had come true. ] She calmed down somewhat after a
 few hours and then handed the police
 officials an exact description of the
 peddler of the vision, giving minute
 account of his dress, which included a
 blue coat of very peculiar pattern
 Marvellous as the fact may appear, a
 man wearing such coat and follow 1 ing the occupation of a peddler was discovered two days later at an inn
 some six miles from Gravesend, and,
 on being taxed with the crime, he at
 once admitted that he was guilty and
 that robbery had been the motive of 1 the outrage He was hanged soon af-
 terward, his doom having been brought
 about by the flimsy evidence of wo-
 mans dream.
 l Women as dreamers seem more sue cessful than men, but rather peculiar instance of ac rime being traced by a vision and in which the dreamer was a member of the male sex comes from
 Rennes, in France. A worthy mer- chant, having quilted his office one | Saturday, evening, proceeded home to dinner and after enjoying substan- 1 tial meal lay down on the couch and 1 fell into a light doze. A very vivid
 dream then came to him wherein he ! saw two men of the burglar type en- gagged in rif1ing the safe in his office,
 and so much impressed was he by the vision that he resolved, upon awaken | ing, to at once go to the office and see
 that everything was under lock and key.
 l His amazement may be imagined
 when, on arriving there, he discovered 1 the door forced and burglary in pro- 1 darmes was the work on an instant,
 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 extraor- dinary 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.
 1 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
 telepathy may have something to do
 with the mysterious business, but even
 that theory would appear rather in ] adeuuate in such cases as the afore- mentioned.
 1 A skillful forger who moved in the
 highest circles of society was once de- i fected by the agency of a dream. The
 affair occurred to Boston and caused 1 the greatest excitement of the time.
 The forger, young man of eight or
 nine and twenty, had become acquaint-
 ed with a rich publisher, at whose house he became constant guest. One
 day the publishers bankers discovered
 that some one was forging their clients
 signature to various large checks, and 1 two detectives were at once instructed
 to look out for the culprit.
 Their efforts proved useless, but one
 evening the publishers youngest ! daughter, little girl of II, dreamed that she saw man whom she describ-
 ed as Hike MT. Blank" the visitor to
 whom refernce has been made, sitting
 in room in Maine street copying" her 1 fathers signature. The child's dream
 was communicated to the police, who,
 though inclined to ridicule the same at
 the outset eventually promised to have
 the gentleman in question watched, with the result that his lodgings were raided and complete plant for the
 making of bank notes found there. It
 then transpired that he was man who
 was wanted for manifold forgeries 1 throughout the Union. and he was gent to prison for very long term.
 1 The child's dream was all the more
 extraordinary in view of the fact that she was too young to understand the
 leading incidents of the business and 1 attrih1lted the conYing of her father S