The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-28
STRANGE STORIES OF DREAMS.

Cases in Which Crimes Have Been Re-
 vealed and Evil Doers Punished.
 Some of the strangest stories in tko annals of crime are those which tell of the part dreams have played in the dis covery of criminals. One spring day in 1880 8 farm laborer, when passing a lonely mountain lake in sutherlandshire saw in the waters dead body, which when rescued proved to. be that of al well known pe3dler who had myster iously vanished about month earlier The body bore marks of violence, the pockets were empty. and it was clear that the poor fellow had been brutally murdered and robbed-but by whom? That was a mystery which for many a week completely defied elucidation.
 One night, however. Keneth Fraser, a tailor's assistant, saw in dream the cottage of a man named Hugh Macleod, and heard voice say in Gaelic. '"The peddler's pack is lying in a cairn of stones in a hole near this house." He IC4N L44C GLOI OL 1i4S SlAlSIldT uIStIi1 to the authorities, who accompanied him to Macleod's house; and there, sure enough, beneath a heap of stones, the murdered mans property was found. Macleon was arrested. confessed and was executed.
 Another very remarkable story is told of a tragedy in Ireland. One evening two strangers presented themselves at 8 Wayside inn near Portland, and after taking refreshment continued their tramp in the direction of Carrick- on- Suir. The incident was common place; but it led to startling developments, for in the Wayfarers the Iandlady of the inn recognized two men of whom she had dreamed strange dream the night before. In her dream she had seen one of them kill the other with towards blow from belrind,' rife the pockets of the dead man, and stealthily bury him ebneath a hedge. So 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 was pursued and arrested. and at the en- suing assizes was sentenced to death
 There has seldom been Q more mys- terious crime than the murder of MT. Stockdin, London victualler, a great many years ago: and the mystery would have remained unsolved to this day had it not been for the intervention of Mrs. Greenwood, who came forward with the statement that the murdered man had appeared to her in a dream and conducted her to a house. in f Thames street, where one of his assassins was to be found; while in another dream Stockden appeared and showed her the likeness of the man. On the strength of this dream clue the man indicated was arrested, and not | only confessed his guilt, but betrayed his ccomplices-three criminals being brought to the scaffo1d as the result of these visions of the night.
 Some years ago Mrs. Rutherford dreamed that her aged relative Lady Leslie, was about to be murdered l by man whom she clearly saw. She immediately set out on visit to Lady Leslie and asked permission to sleep in the lady's room, In the middle of the night Mrs. Rutherford heard some one trying to open the bedroom door, She raised an alarm and flung open the door, when Lady Leslfe's two sons rushed out and in a moment had seized the man of the dream.
 The following story is, perhaps, the strangest of all. One night the Rev. Herbert Powys, & Church of England clergyman, dreamed that the daugter of one of his parishioners had gone. out into the darkness to meet her lovers, who, at the time, was waiting for her In a secluded spot and spending the time in digging g grave for h'er Jump ing out of bed Mir. Powys rushed to the place indicated in his dream and arrived there just as the man had hurled the girl to the ground by the side of the open. grave and was about to kill her with his spade, Tit Bits. --< @-,.h,~, ..,.
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