Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-04-05
SAW CRIME IN DREAM.



Girl ourtduaIy Forewarned OF the
Murder or Her own Chunn.
Less than half an honr before Miss
Josephine Rummelhart, Of this city,
was attacked and murdered by ON un-
known colored man. her intimate friend
and roommate, Miss Mary Liphardt,
foresaw the tragedy In a dream, says
an Omaha correspondent Of the Wash
Ington Post.
Sprlnging from her bed about 1880
O'Clock on the night Of the murder. her
face as pale as death, look Of terror
In her wide-open eyes, Miss Liphardt
cried:
Josephine Rummelhart is being MUIR
deredI HelpI Helpl oh, can no one
save herT'
Several women, attracted by her
cries, ran to Miss Liphardt's room, find-
ing her excitedly pacing the door,
wringing her hands and declaring that
her friend and roommate had been
killed.
II saw a colored man knock her
down, drag her into an alley, ana
there cut her throat" she cried. "Oh,
it is awful, awful, awful"
"You have been dreaming, Mary"
said one Of her friends. "Miss Rum
melhart has gone out to spend the
evening with Miss Anderson. but she
is all right and will return to her room
SOON"
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Miss Liphardt, ''but the dream was 50
vivid and / saw 1t all so plainly that
it seems true to me yet"
The yonng woman was persuaded to
return 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
Instantly recalled her dream OF tina
night before, and, glanclng at Miss
Rummelhart's bed across the room from
l'cr own, she was startled to see that
It 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
co!d-blooded murder Of Miss Rumrael-
hart the night before.
The murder had been committed lcus
than half an hour after Miss Llphardt
had awaken the household by springinR
from her bed crying that her friend
and roommate was Delng murdered.
Only two blocks from the boarding
house and seven blocks from tile heart
Of the business district OF Omaha tue
young woman, on her way home from
the house OF a 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 neighborhood. Tho negro cut her
throat with a razor and then made his
escape.
Two young men, w. B. Hughes and
Paul Lowe, lodging in tue house IN the
rear Of which Miss Runneihart WAS
left by her slayer, attracted BY the
dying woman's means, discovered her q
few minutes after the negro fled. They
promptly notified the police OF the dis
covery and the young woman was IA.
ken to a hospital, where she died 4
few hours later without regaining CON
seriousness.
A curious case Of mistaken Identity
occurred the morning after the muir
der. Hundreds Of people went TO thu
morgue to see the body OF the murdered
woman. Among those who went Their,
was Charles Ward, a veteran street-cal
conductor of the city. The moment
Ward glanced at the face OF the dead
woman he grew deadly 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 ont FOL
his home to break the dreadful new
to his wife. On opening the door d
his house the nrst person to greet hin
was the daughter whom he had b
lleved to be dead. She had gone TO th,
theater with a young woman friend th,
night berore and, missing the last cal
for her home, had spent the night viii
her friend, arriving home a few min
utes before her father arrived there b
break to his wife the news Of her death