The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-21
SAW CRIME IN DREAM.
Girls Curious Forewarning of ths
Murder of Her Chun.
Omaha Cor. Washington Post,

Omaha Cor. Washington Post.
Less than a half hour before Miss jose
phine Rummelhart of this city was at
tackled and murdered by an unknown col
ored man. her intimate friend and ROOM
mate Miss Mary Liphardt foresaw the
tragedy In a dream
Sprlnging from her bed about 1870
o'clock on the night Of the murder, her
face as pale as death, look of terror
In her wide-open eyes, Miss Iiphardt
cried;
Josephine Rummelhart Is being muir
dered! Helpl Help oh. can no one save
herr"
Several women, attracted by her cries.
ran to Miss Liphardt's room, finding her
eXcltedly pacing the floor wringing her
hands, and declaring that her friend and
roommate had been killed.
Il saw colored man knock her down,
drag her into an alley, and there cut her
throat" she cried. "Oh, 1t is awful, aw-
full, awfull'
you have been dreaming. Mary" said
one of her friends. Miss Rummelhart
Miss Anderson, but she is all right and
will return to her room soon"
Yes; have been dreaming" said Miss
Liphardt, but the dream was so vivid
and saw it all so plainly that 1t seems
true to me yet"
| turn to her bed on the assurance that
Miss Rummelhart would soon return to
| her room, and by and by she fell asleep.
When she awoke in the morning she In
| stantly recalled her dream of the night
! before, and, glancng at Miss Rumnel-
harris bed, across the room from Der
| own, she was startled to Sc that 1t had
not been occupied.
| Dressing hastily she went downstairs
! and picked up the morning paper. The
+ first words that caught her eye were
those in a "scare head" telling of the
cold FLOODED murder of Miss Rummelhart
tho night before
Tho murder had been committed less
than half an hour after Miss Liphardt
had awakened tho household by spring.
ing from her bed and crying that her
friend and roommate was being MUIR
dered. Only two blocks from her board
ing house and but seven blocks from
the heart of the business district OF
Omaha, the young woman, on her way
home from the house of nelghbor, had
been knocked down by a negro, dragged.
bleeding and unconscious, to a dark spot
In the rear OF one OF the houses in the
nelghborhood, further maltreated and
then murdered. The negro cut her throat
with a razor and then made his escape.
Two young men, w. Il. Hughes and
Paul Lowe lodging in the house in the
rear Of which Miss Rummelhart was left
by her slayer, attracted by the dying
woman's means. discovered her a few
minutes after the negro had made his
escape. They promptly notified the police
OF the discovery and the young woman
was taken to a hospital, where she died
a few hours later without regaining con-
sciousness
A curious case OF mistaken identity oc-
CURED the morning after the murder. Hun
dreds Of people went to the morgue to see
the body of the murdered woman. Among
those who went there was Charles Ward.
n veteran street car conductor of the
city The moment Ward glanced at thu
face of the dead woman he grew deathly
pale, staggered back as If he had been
shot, and cried that the body was that
of his daughter, Miss Wilkes Ward.
Bowed with grief, Ward set out for his
home to break the dreadful news to his
wife on opening the door to his houss
the first person TO greet him was the
daughter whom he had believed to be
dead She had gone to the theatre with
n young lady friend the night before and.
missing the last car for her own home.
had spent the night with her friend, ar
irving home a few minutes before her
father arrived there to break TO his wife
the news OF her death
The murderer of Miss Rummelhart has
not been captured Several large re-
wards have been offered for his apprs-
hension.