The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-07-22
EVIDENCE FROM BEYOND"
Things That Shake Ones Ideas
About Dreams and Things
Savoring OF the Supernatural.

Greensboro Record.
People hoot at dreams and
things savoring of the super
natural, yet occasionally some
thing takes place that shakes
ones ideas on such things. In
1907, as we gather from con-
densed account in The Char
lotte Chronicle, Lieut.. James N.
Sutton, of the United States
Navy, was found dead at An
napolis, shot through the head.
A naval court of inquiry decided
that it was a case of suicide.
Sutton, however, had a sister
living in Colorado, who was
never satisfied with this verdict
and upon her determined insis-
tence, re-investigation of the
death of the lieutenant has been
ordered. From the new evidence
gathered, it is evident that some
interesting developments are to
be expected. This sister of
Lieutenant Sutton claims to have
secured the name of the man
who killed the lieutenant through
the medium of a vision. She
says her brother came to her in
a dream and said that he had
been murdered-shot in the
back of the head-but that they
would say that he had committed
suicide. He told her not to be-
lieve it and chen revealed to her
the name of the man who shot
him. She came East and found
the circumstances just as her
brother had related them. The
sister disclaims any belief what
ever in superstition, but the in
vestigation which she instituted
as a result of the dream, brought
to light evidence of such a
nature as to made the authorities
to order a second investigation.
Should this new investigation re-
suit in a reversal of the suicide
verdict, the believers in dreams
and visions will have scored a
point, and it will be a hard mat
ter to argue against their argu.
ment.
The trial still under way is
causing a lot of excitement. But
sometimes astonishing things
are revealed in another way
The following incident is alb
solutely true and can be proven
: by the best of evidence, long agt
f as it occurred. One of the bes
known women in Greensboro
had a brother to go to Missouri
+ before the way, perhaps in 1876
, or $50. He was a handsome fellow
: and would not brook an insult
. fighting at the drop of a hat
: though he was a gentleman
y One day this lady was sitting il
. her room sewing; it was abou
+ II o'clock in the forenoon; sud
denly she burst into a flood 0
: tears, crying as if her hear
would break. Her husband wa
finally sent for and it was a lon
time before he could get her t
: tell him the cause of her grief
= !, She said he would laugh at her
% and he did, but it did not shak
6, her in the least. She said Will
= sitting at her work, she saw he
brother and another man clinc
i in a fight; others interfered an
: y separated them; as her brothe
+ turned to walk off, the othe
i man suddenly drew pistol an
> shot him in the back, killing hi
~ instantly. All efforts to col
:, q vince her that it was a freak {
g imagination proved futile. Thel
h was no telegraph in those day
= but in due time a letter can
= and it told the story just as tt
!, woman saw it and related
j even to the hour of the day.
!; What was it, how was it tn
! information was conveyed
" this woman? Solve it if 81
can, but the story is absolute
. true.