New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-20

vember II and u. toward morning, she dreamed
that SIZE saw her husband, looking anxious and Ill,
upon rhich che Immediately awoke, much agltat-
- II was bright moonlight, and, looking up, she
perceived the figure standing by her bedside
He appeared in his uniform. the hands pressed
across his breast. the hair disheVelled, the face
very pale His large dark eyes were fixed full
upon her Their expression was that OF great eX-
element and there was a peculiar twist Of the
mouth habtual to him when aeitated She saw
him. even to each minute particular Of his dress,
as distinctly as she had him in life, and
she remembers to have seen between his hands
the white of his shirt BOSOM unstained, however,
with blood The figure seemed TO bend forward,
as # in pain and to make effort to speak, but
there was no sound. II remained visible, the wife
thinks. fer as long as minute, and then dis
appeared.
"Her first idea was to ascertain if she was ac
tualy awake She rubbed her eyes with the sheet
and felt that the touch real. Her little
nephew was in bed with her. She bent over the
sleeping child and listened to its breathing. The
sound was distinct and she became convinced that
what she had seen was dream. II need hardly
be added that she did not again go to sleep that
night
THE w OFFICE CONFIRMS THE WIRES
FEARS.
Next morning she related all this to her mother,
expressing her conviction that though she noticed
no marks of blood the dress, Captain W. was
either killed or grievously wounded. SO fully i'm
pressed she with the reality of the apparition
that she thcnceforth refused all invitations. In
December a dispatch published stating that
CAPTAIN W. had been killed in the afternoon of
the 18th. Mrs W. asserted positively that there
bav bno r,ic in crifa nF fha eta
mont Of the War Office, and that her husband was
killed on the 18th. Investigations were made and
it was found that this was correct-Captain w.
was killed on the afternoon OF the nth, and not
on he 18th, as stated Thus, he appeared to his
wife few hours after his death. The wound
from which he died not upon his chest, upon
which there no blood-as indicated by the APP
partition"
The following narrative was received from Cap
tain Russell Colt. Of Goatbridge N. B.:
81 had a very dear brother, Oliver, lieutenant
in the eth Royal Fusiers. lie was about nine
teen years old and had at that time been some
months before Sebastopol. | correspondent fire.
qucntly with him. and my last letter reached him
Just about to receive the sacrament
from a clergyman who has since related the fact
10 me. Having done this, he went to the in
trenchnents and never returned, a few hours
aftcrward the storming of the Redan commenced.
He. on the captain of his company falling, took
mis- place and led his men bravely on. He had
just led them within the walls though already
wounded in several places. when bullet struck
him on the right temple and he fell among heaps
Of others where he was found in a sort of kneel-
ing posture being prOpped up by other dead
bodies) ;hrty-siN hours afterward. His death
took place, or rather, he fell, September g.
THAT night awoke suddenly and saw, facing
the window of my room, by my bedside.
rounded by a light sort of phosphoreseent mist,
it were, my brother kneeling tried to speak,
but could not. buried my head in the bed