The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-09-16

once more awakened her She said:
"Now, cannot rest; Mr.. Dacres' must
not 60 for i feel that did he go Lwould
thoughts of it would almost kill me-"
Indeed. ON tho strength of this dream,
Mrs. GrifIiths induced her nephew to
: send note Of apology to his friends,
who went without him, were caught In
a. sudden storm and drowned.
Here are three historical cases or
murderers brought to the gallows
through dreams: The Rev. William
Smithies, curate Of st. Giles, Cripple
gate, wrote curious matter or fact
account Of the appearance In dream
of a murdered parishioner, one Stock
den. Grub street victualer, to Mrs.
Greenwood, showing her, likeness OF his
murderers and giving her the address
I'm Thames street of their home. On
this evidence alone tlIeg We're arrested
and upon confessions Of the crime
hanged.
Then there is the red barn case,
where the stepmotlfer Of Maria Martin
saw In dream her body buried IN the
barn, and its discovery there led to the
| arrest. trial and conviction OF Corder,
who sixteen months before had first
seduced and then murdered the girl,
disposing of tina corpse as the dream
had indicated.
| Lastly there is the case which both
Frasers Magazine and the Quarterly
Review took note Of some years later,
that of the. conviction Of Hugh Mac
leod for the murder of the peddler
Murdoch Grant, chiefly through the ev'
idence OF Kenneth Fraser, who, hav'
ing been told in dream where the
murdered peddler's pack was lying, lee
the police to the precise spot.
OF course the best known and attest
ed Of all these historical dream visions
is that of the assassination Of the
prime minister, Spencer Perceval, BY
John Bellingham in the very lobby O.
the house as seen In sleep by Johi
williams of Redruth. In his dream
Mr.. Williams, being in the lobby OF tn
, house of commons, saw a small mai
enter dressed in blue coat and whit
waistcoat. Then he saw man dresses
In a brown coat with yellow baske
: buttons draw pistol from under hi
coat and discharge 1t at the former
who instantly fell, the blood tssuin
from wound little below the LET
breast.
Hereupon he awoke and told his wifi
Of his dream, Of which she made ligh
Even when he dreamed 1t a secon
!. time she observed, to quote from tn
Times Of the day, THAT he had bee
20 pqch agitated by his Former dreaI
! that she Supposed 1t had dwelt on hi
, mind and begged him to try to con
, pose himself pnd 60 to sleep, whic
J he did A third time the vision wa
repeated, on which, tiotwithstandin
her entreaties that he would be quie
and endeavor to forget it, he arose,
being then between ! and 2 O'CLOCK
; and dressed himself At breakfas
the dreams were the sole subject O
conversation, and in the forenoon MI
Williams went to Falmouth, where h
related the particulars Of them to al
his acquaintance that he met"
Six weeks later Mr.. Williams, VIII
, | Aou hSNSi, SASSPI Ill lhcec ueduS, Seel
either Spencer Perceval or his assassin
went to london and to the house o
commons and pointed out the exac
spot where Bellingham stood when b,
fired and that which Mr.. Perceval hat
reached when he was struck by tn,
ball and how he fell. The dress o.
both Mr.. Perceval and Bellinghan
agreed even to the most minute mar
ticulars with the description given BY
Mr.. Williams"