The Detroit times., 1917-07-26
Was This Telepathy?
ny ". ARLINGTON BRUCE
Author Of The Riddle OF Person
Atty" Psychology and
Parcnthuod." etc.

Shortly after going 20 bed on
the night OF Sunday, July l. had
curious dream.
seemed 20 be In London, a city
where have never been. In bust
ness street. and In front OF news
paper ONCE. | met man who told
me- that a cablegram had just been
received by the newspaper, report.
Ing wreck IN the Niagara river.
with the loss OF many lives. among
the victims being one OF my best
friends
Al once hurried into the news
paper Office and was obligingly
shown the cablegram
From II | 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 10 be drowned some
names being given. But my friends
name was not among them.
Here the dream ended. and
awoke. thought OF e a few mo.
ments. wondering az ia unusual co
herence and de1nitcness. Then
once more fell asleep.
In the morning [ again thought Of
my dream. when. taking up the pa
per. the first piece of news that
caught my eye Was an account Of
the plunging OF crowded trolley
car into the Niagara river Ten PEG
pie We're reported dead and twice
as many missing
The accident occurred IN the mid
afternoon OF July !. my dream some
hours later. Hut, being hundreds
~ miles from Niagara, and having
been IN my house all afternoon and
evening ! had no possible means OF
learning ~ the accident until | read
next days newspaper.
Now. was IL merely a chance coin
cidence that. from among the thou
sands OF places whore might have
located my dream OF disaster So
lected Niagara as It's scene2 or was
my dream the result 81 something
more than chance
Was H. possibly the result OF
telepa'hic action Had ! received
by some mysterious mental wireless
means. Information which remained
latent IN my mind untu q favorlne
condition IN sleep permitted It's
emergence IN the form OF dream
having the GEOGRAPHICALLY acquired
Information "a Us basis
I admit am inclined toward the
latter explanation For there are
on record many dreams similar 20
mine TOO many. II seems 10 me.
- think that chance coincidence
could account for an
Thus. as write recall the singit
lar dream OF San Francisco LADY,
Mrs ) G. Bugbee. who knew init
mafeiy John Wilkes Booth In this
dream Mrs Bugbee saw herself Ia
theatcr where Booth was acting
Between the acts Booth came 90 her
and asked her how she liked the
plaY.
Frankly she told him that she did
not like II at all lie became on
RACED. drew a pistol. and shot heI
in the back OF the neck
Awaking in a panic Mrs Bugbee
Immediately narrated me dream 90
her husband Next morning came
the terrible news o. the assasslnn.
ton % President Lincoln by Booth
In theater. and with pistol as
The Seapon
MAS IL only by chance. or was #
by telepathy. that Mrs Bugbee,
asleep in san Francisco. had her
strangely co.incidental dream
Az stated. many dreams akin 30
this and 20 mine are on record.
Many more am sure. might be
pu' on record. and for The purposes
Of scientific inquiry should be on
record
Therefore would ask any among
my readers who have had such
.lreams dreams. that Is 20 say,
suggesting a definite connection be-
tween the dream and some actual
happening al distance TO com
municate them 10 me IN the care OF
this newspaper