The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-10-31
HER DIRE ANS Z FAD
OKLA HOA4A WOMAN
70 DIVORCE COURT
Had Visions of Motor Cars and
Other Women, She Tells
&, Judge.

OKLAHOMA CITY. oct. so.-Al-
though Mrs. Adele Smith, wife of
my Smith, Of Arcadia, is a
young woman Of education, she be-
.siieXes in dreams to such an extent
It has broken up her home and
HE has suit for separation pending
m the divorce court. Smith is resist
Ing the divorce on the ground that
he wants their three year old boy.
Smith and his young wife came
here from Kansas about four years
ago and lived on farm at Arcadia.
The husband bought some land in
Texas, close to the Mexican border,
and wanted to move there. but his
wife had dream about giant Mex
lean with a big knife in his hand and
\ refused to go that close to the Mexi-
cans.
The vision of the big Mexican
came to her time and again, and
every time the giant was about to
stab their baby. The dreams did
not cease until Smith assured her
that he would sell the Texas land
and give up the idea Of going there,
But Mrs. Smith had recorded her
dreams in a book, and every time
she thought her husband was think
Ing of Texas or the Mexican border
she would get the book and read the
dreams to him. Smith finally sold
the Texas land at sacrifice.
Had Other Dreams.
After the vision of the bad Mex
lean had faded there was nearly a
year in which Mrs. Smith had no
vivid dreams except when she want
ed something. and then she would
dream that something dreadful was
going to befall them unless 1t was
Forthcoming. She recorded all these
dreams and read them aloud to her
husband.
Usually she got the things she
wanted, OF she kept on dreaming I'M
til her husband was forced to buy
them to stop the horrible visions.
The climax came when Mrs. Smith
tried to dream herself into an auto
mobile. She had vision OF the team
running away and mangling all Of
them in a most. horrible manner, but
there is no mention Of an automo-
bile In the first dream. At that time
her husband did not know the pur-
port of the strange hallucinations she
was having in her sleep. but She
gradually led up to 1t.
All the visions were recorded I'M
the dream book kept by Mrs. Smith,
which is now In the hands of her
husband and an exhibit in the di-
vorce suit. This book shows that the
young farmers wife had set her
heart on an automobile.
They were only hallucinations,
however," said the sturdy young
farmer, for / was not able to buy
an automobile"
Smith told his wife. he testified,
that she might as well quit dream
ing about an automobile, but she
kept right on, The dream book is
filed with some horrible nightmares
experienced by Mrs. Smith, and An
ally the visions turned in the direc-
ton of her husband.
Dreamed about Hubby.
The dream book records that she
had visions Of her husband in the
E company Of other women. She saw
him, in her dreams, gallivanting
around with the wives of the neigh
bors and with the unmarried women
B. AZ tA4G vi ftICduld. 0u6
kept faithful record of these Wis
ions and at first only laid the dream
book around where he could look at
1t. As Smith refused to read the
dream book she finally read the
dreams to him herself and accused
him of having committed the Of
lenses contained therein. The dream
book mentions the names Of nearly
all the women in the neighborhood,
some Of them having only speak
ing acquaintance with the young
farmer.
Smith said on the witness stand
that he had tried in many ways to
dissuade his wife from indulgence
in the visions. but that she persisted
In having them. He wanted to de-
stroy the dream book and start all
over again, but his wife finally be-
come obsessed with the idea that all
. her visions were true.
by that time," said Smith, at
had gone so far that could not stop
1t, even by buying an automobile"
Finally Mrs. Smith left. her hus-
band, taking the boy with her. She
brought the suit for divorce, charg-
ing her husband with some OF the Of
lenses she had seen in her visions
Smith found the dream book and has
put It before the court as evidence
i that his wife is not sincere in the
charges she has made against him.
District Judge Hayson has taken
the. case under advisement. believing
that the young farmer and his wife
can by some means be reunited.