Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-25
STRANGE STORIES OF DREAMS.
Cases in Which Crimes Have Been Re-
vealed and Evil Doors Punished.

FROM Ilt-BitS.
Some of the strangest stories In the annals
of crime are those which tell of the part
dreams have played in the discovery Of
criminals One spring day in 1880 a farm
laborer, when passing a lonely mountain
lake in Sutherlandshire saw in the waters
a dead body, which, when rescued. proved
to be that of a wel-known peddler who had
mysteriously vanished about a month ear
lier The body bore marks of violence, the
pockets were empty. and 1t was clear that
the poor fellow had been brutally murdered
and robbed-but by whom2 That was q
mystery which for many a week completely
defied calculation.
One night, however Kenneth Fraser, q
tailor's assistant. saw In a dream the cot
tage of man named Hugh Macleod, and
heard voice say in Gaelic, THE peddlers
pack is lying in a cairn of stones in hole
near this house" He told the story of his
singular dream to the authorities, who ac-
companied him to Macleods house; and
there. sure enough. beneath heap Of
stones. the murdered mans property was
found. Macleod was arrested, confessed,
and was executed.
Another very remarkable story is told Of
a tragedy in Ireland. One evening two
strangers presented themselves at a way
side inn near Portland and after taking re-
freshment continued their tramp in the d.
rection of Carrick- on-Suir. The incident
was commonplace enough, but it led to
startling developments. for in the wayfar-
ers the landlady of the inn recognized two
men or whom she had dreamed a very
strange dream the night before. In her
dream she had seen one of them kill the
other with towards blow from behind,
rifle the pockets of the dead man, and
stealthfly bury him beneath a hedge go
impressed was her husband when this
dream was told him that he made his way
to the spot indicated and there discovered
the body of the buried man The assassin
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suing assizes was sentenced to death
There has seldom been a more mysterious
crime than the murder of Mr. Stockton a
London victualler, a great many years ago.
and the mystery would have remained nm,
solved to this day had it not been for the
Intervention of Mrs. Greenwood who came
forward with the statement that the MUIR
dered man had appeared to her In a dream
and conducted her to a house in Thames
street, where one of his assassins was to be-
found; while in another dream Stockton
appeared and showed her the likeness of
the man. On the strength of this dream
clew the man indicated was arrested, and
not only confessed his guilt, but betrayed
his accomplices = three criminals being
brought to the scaffold as the result of
these visions of the night.
Some years ago Mrs. Rutherford dream
ed that her aged relative, Lady Leslie. was
about to be murdered by man whom she
clearly saw. She Immediately set out on a
visit to Lady Leslie and asked permission to
sleep In the ladys room. In the middle Of
the night Mrs. Rutherford heard some one
trying to open the bed room door, She
raised an alarm and flung open the door,
when Lady Leslies two sons rushed out
and In moment had seized the man of the
dream.
The following story IS, perhaps. the
strangest of all. One night the Rev Her
bert Powys, Church of England clergy
man, dreamed that the daughter of one OF
his parishioners had gone out into the
darkness to meet her lover. who, at the
har L.,
spot and spending the time in digging a
grave for her. Jumping out of bed Mr.
Powys rushed to the place indicated in his
dream and arrived there just as the man
had hurled the girl TO the ground nv The
side OF the open grave and was about to XIII
her with his spade