Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-05-17
Cases In Which Grimes Have
Been Revealed and Evil
Doors Punished.
ARE NOT ALWAYS RELIABLE
Still Some of the Most Battling Mys.
tsries in tho Annals Of Crime HAYS
Been Solved Through the Me-
dunn Of These Visions.
From Tit-BIts.

Some of the 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 II farm laborer. when passing a
lonely mountain lake in Sutherland
shire. saw in the waters a dead body.
which. when escued. proved to be that
of a we'll known peddler who had mys-
teriously vanished about a month ear
Her. The body bore marks of violence.
the pocket were empty. and 1t was
clear that the poor fellow had been
brutally murdered and robbed-but by
Whom? That was a mystery which for
many 4 week completely defied eluci-
dation.
one night however. Kenneth Fraser.
II taiiors assistant. saw in a dream the
cottage OF a man named Hugh Macleod
and heard IA voice say in Gaelic: The
peddler.s pack is lying, In. IA cairn OF
stones IN a ole near this house." He.
,old 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 ths
murdered mans. property was found
Macleod was arrested. confessed. and
was executed.
Row u. Happened in Ireland.
another very remarkable story In
told OF a tragedy in Ireland. One even
ing two strangers presented them
selves at a waystde inn near Portland.
ana after taking refreshment continued
tneir tramp In the direction OF Carrick-
The Incident was common
place enough. but 1t led to startling de-
eiopments for In the wayfafers the
landlady Of the inn recognized two
men OF whom she had dreamed II very
strange dream the night before. In
her drQA IN che had ooop AVE NJ fhop,
kill the other with a towards blow
from behind. rife the packets of the
dead man. and s%tealthtiy bury him be-
meath A hedge. So Impressed was her
husband when'this dream was told him
that he made his way to the spot in
dicated and there discovered the body
of the buried man. The assassin was
pursued and arrested. and at the en-
suing asstzes was sentenced to death.
There has seldom been a more mys-
FERROUS crime than the murder OF Mr..
Stockton. a london vfctualler. a great
many years ago; and the mystery
ould have remained unsolved to this
day had 1t not been for the intervene
ton of Mrs. Greenwood. who came for
ward with the statement that the muir
dered man had appeared to her in a
dream and her to a house
in Thames street. where one OF his
assassinS was to be found: while i'm
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 be-
trayed his accOmplices-three criminals
being brought to the scaffold az the
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 abou to he murdered by
a man whom she clearly saw. She im-
1nediately set out IN a 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 her bed room door.
She raised an alarm and flung open the
door. when Lady Les!iets 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. a Church of England
clergyman. dreamed that the daugh-
ter OF one of his parishioners had gon"
out into the darkness to meet her lover.
who. at the time. was waiting for her
in a secluded spot and spending the
time in digging a grave for her. 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
ide of the open grave and was about
, kill her with his spade.