The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-05-11
Gases In Which Crimes Hase
Been Revealed and Evil
Doors Punished.
ARE NOT ALWAYS RELIABLE
Still Some of the Most Battling My~.
tcries in the Annals Of Crime Have
Been Solved Through the Me-
dunn of These Visions.
From Tit-Bits

Some of the %strangest stories in the
annals of crime are those which tell 81
the part dreams have played in e
discovery of criminals. One spring day
in 1880 a farm laborer, when passing a
lonely lake in sutherland
shire, saw in the waters a dead body.
which, when rescued, proved to be that
of a we'll known peddler who had ays
teriously vanished about q month car
lier. Tho body bore marks of violence
the pockets were empty, and it WAR
clear that the poor fellow had been
brutality murdered and rohhed-but by
whom? That was a mystery which Cox
many q week completely defied eluci-
dation.
One night, however. Kenneth Fraser.
u tailor's assistant, saw in a dream the
cottage of a man named Hugh Macleod
and heard a voice say In Gaelic: The
peddler's pack is lying in a cairn OF
stones in a hole mean 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 a heap of stones. the
murdered mans property was found.
Macleod was arrested, confessed, ana
was executed.
How 1t Happened in ireland.
Another very remarkable story is
told of a tragedy in Ireland. One even
ing two strangers presented them
selves at a wayside inn near Portland
their tramp in the direction of CarTick--
on-Suir. The incident was
place enough, but it led to startling de-.
velopments. for in the wayfarers the
landlady of the inn recognized two'
men of whom she had dreame a very
strange dream the night before. In
her dream she lhad seen one of theIs
kill the other with a towards blow
from behind, rifle the pockets of the
dead man. and s%tealthily bury him be
meath a hedge. So impressed was her
husband when his dream was told him
that he made his way to the spot In
| dictated and there discovered the body
of the buried man. The assassin wac
pursued and arrested, and at the en-
suing assizes was sentenced to DEATH
There has seldom been a more Inys-
FERROUS crime than the murder Of MI
Stockton, a london victualler, "a great
many years ago; n the mystery
would have remained unsolved TO this
day had 1T not been for the interyer-
ton of Mrs. Greenwood, who came for
ward With the statement that the muir
dered man had appeared to her In 20
dream and conducted her to q fftsr*x.s
in Thames street, where z of bis.
assassins was to be found. while ira
showed her the likeness of the a
On the strength OF this dream cleWv
the man indicated was arrested, ssnt2
not only confessed his guilt, but be-
trayed his accomplices-three criminals
being brought to the scaffold as he
result of these visions OF the night
One Woman's Warning.
Some years ago a Mrs. RUTHERFORD
dreamed that her aged relative, Lady
Leslie, was about to- be murdered by.
a man whom she clearly saw. She i'm
mediately set out on a visit to Lady
Leslie and asked permission 20 sleeI,
in he lady's room. In Che middle, OF
the night Mrs. Rutherford heand some
one trying to open her bed room door.
She raised an alarm and flung open the
door. hen Lady Leslie's two sona
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, a Church Of EngExzua
clergyman, dreamed hat the daugh-
ter of one of his parishioners had gone
out into the to meet her lover.
who. at the time, was waiting for he,
in a secluded spot and spending tsas
time in digging a grave for her. Jufap-
ing out Of bed. Mr.. Powys rushed &c
the place indicated in his dream .igst,
arrived there just as the man had
hurled the girl to the ground by the
,ide of the open grave and was about
. kill her with his spade.