The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-11-21
STRANGE STORIES OF DREAMS.
Cases in Which Crimes Have Been Re.
vealed and Evil Doors Punished.

some OF the stfangeSt 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 1890 farm laborer, when passing
a lonely mountain lake in Sutherland
shire, saw in the waters a dead body,
which when rescued proved to be that
of well known peddler who had mys-
teriously disappeared about month
earlier. The body bore marks of vio-
lence, the pockets were empty. and 1t
was clear that the poor fellow had been
brutaily murdered and robbed but BIZ
whom! That was a mystery which for
many a week completely deiied eIucida-
| tion.
One night, however, Kenneth Fraser,
4 tailor's assistant, saw in dream the
cottage Of d man named Hugh MacI.eo
and heard voice say in Gaelic "The
peddler's pack Is lying in cairn of
stones in hole near his house" He
told the story Of his singular dream to
the authorities, who accompanied him
to MacLeod's 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
III tragedy in Ireland. One evening
two strangers presented themselves at
a wayside inn near Portland and after
taking refreshment continued their
tramp IN the direction Of Carfick on SUR.
The incident was commonplace enough,
but it led TO startling developments.
for in the wayfarers the landlady OF
The inn recognized two men Of whom
she had dreamed a very strange dream
the night before. In her dream she
had seen one OF them kill the other with
a towards blow from behind, rifle the
pockets Of the dead man, and stealthily|
bury him beneath hedge. SO i'm.
pressed was her husband when this
dream was told him that he made his
way to the spot indicated and there dis
covered the body Of the buried man.
The assassin was pursued and arrested,
and at the ensuing assizes was sentenced
to death.
There has seldom been 4 more mys-
FERROUS crime than the murder Of Mr..
Stockton, a London victualIer. great
many years ago; and the mystery would
have remained nnsolved 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 q dream and conduct
ed her to 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
clue the man indicated was arrested,
and not only confessed his guilt but
betrayed his accomplices three crimi-
mails being brought to the scaffold as
the result Of these visions of tie night
Some years ago a Mrs. Rutherford
dreamed that her aged relative, Lady
Leslie, was about to be murdered BY 4
man whom she clearly saw. She inn
mediately 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 Leslie's two sons rushed
out and in moment had seized the
man Of her dream.
The following story IL, perhaps, the
strangest of all. One night the Rev.
Herbert Powys, a Church of England
clergyman, dreamed that the daughter
Of one Of his parishioners had gone out
into the darkness to meet her lover,
who, at the time, was waiting for her
in secluded spot and spending the
time in digging a grave for her. Jump
ing 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 BY the side Of the
open grave and was about to kill her
with his spade. Tit Bits.