The Detroit times., 1917-07-26
Was This Telepathy?
nv N. ADDINGroN BRUCB
Author Of The Riddle OF Person
atty" Psychology and
Parenthood." etc.

Shortly after going 10 bed on
the night OF Sunday. July l. had
curious dream.
seemed 10 be In London. a city
where have never been. In a bust
ness street. and In front OF a news.
paper oflce, | met a man who told
me that a cablegram had Just been
received by the newspaper. report
ing a wreck in the Niagara river
with the loss OF many lives. among
the victims being one OF my best
friends.
AT once hurried into the news.
paper Office and Was obligingly
shown the cablegram.
From IL | learned that a small
steamboat named tho Clintonia-pre.
sumably after Gov. Cllnton-had In
some way been overturned In the
Niagara. About score OF people
were said TO be drowned. some
names being given. But my friends
name was not among them
Here the dream ended. and |
awoke. | thought OF II few mo
ments, wondering at It's unusual co
herence and dehniteness. Then |
once more fell asleep.
In the morning | again thought Of
my dream. when. taking up the pa.
per, the hrst piece OF news that
caught my eye was an account OF
the plunging OF crowded trolley
car into the Niagara river Ten peo-
pie were reported dead and twice
as many missing
The accident occurred In the mid
afternoon OF July /. my dream some
hours later. But. being hundreds
OF miles from Niagara. and having
been in my house all afternoon and
evening. ! had no possible means OF
learning OF the accident until read
next days newspaper.
Now, was IL merely a chance coin.
cidence that. from among the thou
sands OF places where might have
located my dream OF disaster. | Sc
lected Niagara "a its scene' Or was
my dream the result OF something
more than chance?
Was II. possibly. the result OF
telepathic action Had received.
by some mysterious mental wireless
means, information which remained
latent in my mind until fayoring
condition in sleep permitted It's
emergence in the form OF dream
having the telepathically acquired
information as It's basis?
admit am inclined toward the
latter explanation For there are
on record many dreams similar 10
mine-ioo many. II seems TO me,
- think that chance coincidence
could account for all
Thus, as ! write recall the Singh
lar dream OF San Francisco lady
Mrs 5. c. Bugbee. who knew init
mately John Wilkes Booth. In this
dream Mrs Bugbee saw herself in
a theAter where Booth was acting
Between the acts Booth came 20 her
and asked her how she liked the
play.
Frankly she told him that she did
not like II AT all He became en-
ragged. drew pistol. and shot her
in the back OF the neck.
Awaking In a panic Mrs Bugbee
i,nm ediately narrated the dream 20
her husband Next morning came
the terrible news OF the assassina.
ton % President Lincoln by Booth
In a theater. and with a pistol as
the Weapon
Was it only by chance. or was I,
by telepathy. that Mrs Bugbee,
asleep In San Francisco had her
strangely cO.incidental dream?
AS stated. many dreams akin 20
this and 10 mine are on record.
Many more, | am sure, might be
put on record. and for the purposes
Of scientific inquiry should be on
record
Therefore ! would ask any among
my readers who have had such
.ireams-dreams. that Ia 10 say,
suggesting a definite connection be
tween the dream and some actual
happening az distance-to com
municate them 10 me In the care Of
this newspaper