The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-02-21
SAW CRIME IN DREAM.



Murder of Her own Chum.
Less than. half an hour before Miss
Josephine Rummelhart, of this city,
was attacked and murdered by an IN
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.
Springing 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 Liphardt
cried:
Josephine Rummelhart is being MUIR
deredl Helpl Help! Oh, can no one
save herY'
Several women, attracted by her
cries, ran to Miss Liphardt's room, find
ing her excitedly pacing the floor,
wringing her hands and declaring that
her friend and roommate had been
killed.
Il saw a colored man knock her
down, drag her into an alley, an6
there cut her throat" she cried. "Oh.
1t is awful, awful, awful 70
You have been dreaming. Mary"
said one Of her friends. Miss Rum
melhart has gone out to spend the
evening with Miss Andersen. but she
is all right and will return to her room
soon"
"Yes; have been dreaming" said
Miss Liphardt, but the cream was so
vivid and / saw it all so plainly that
1T 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 the
night before, and. glancing at Miss
Rummelhart's bed across the room from
Ter 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
coid-blooded murder of Miss Rumrael-
hart the night before.
The murder had been committed less
than half an hour after Miss Liphardt
had awaken the household by sprinsing
from her bed crying that he- friend
ard roommate was being murdered.
Only two blocks from the boarding
Eonse and seven blocks from the heart
of the business district of Omaha the
young woman. on her way home frohi
the house of neighbor, bad been
knocked down by a negro, dragged,
bleeding and unconscious, to dark
spot in the rear of one or the houses In
the neighborhood. The negro cut her
throat with razor and then made his
escape.
Two young men, W. B. Hughes and
Paul Lowe, lodging in the house in the
rear of which Miss Rurimelhart was
left by her slayer, attracted by the
dying woman's means, discovered Ter a
few minutes after the negro fed. They
promptly notified the police of the dis
covery and the young woman was Ia
ken to hospital, where she died a
few hours later without regainlng con-
sciousness
A curious case of mistaken identity
occurred the morning after the muir
der. Hundreds Of people went to the
morgue to see the body of the murdered
woman. Among those who went there
was Charles Ward, veteran street-car
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 out for
his home to break the dreadful news
to his wife. On opening the door to
his house the first person to greet him
was the daughter whom he had be-
lieved to be dead. She had gone to the
theater with young woman friend the
night berore and, missing the last car
for her home, had spent the night with
her friend, arriving home few min
utes before her father arrived there to
break to his wife the news of her death.