Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-29
Grim Dreams
That Turned0uf
To Be True

j most unfathomable problem of psychica research.
- Scientists calculated that dreams hold pos
session of the human mind during quarter OF ones
natural life And it seems strange that science which
has ped into almost everything else has accomplished
little in unraveing their mystery Yet after scrutinz
ing Of the bewidering experiences in Dreamland II
is not surprising after all How difficult 1t would be
offer reasonable explanation for the following story
taken from the Brooklyn police files.
John Coyne, who lived Sixth Avenue, was en-
ployed as a WPA laborer. He apparently in good
health but one dav last summer while al work dropped
dead Of attack
policeman his home break the 20
his wife and found her standing at the door When the
the officer she turned white.
i know what you've come to tell me she gasfed
before he had spoken word John is dead knew IT
you for I've dreamed OF his death the
last three nights. Il"
There are too many Of record
for this coincidence About the same
time William Watson of the same city dreamed that his
12-year-od Philip had been drowned In the morning
at the breakfast table he told the family about it, and
Philip piped Say don't believe in dreams do you
pop
want 70 promise that you won't near any water
today
Philip did but he forgot all about this promise when,
the aftennon several huas stopped and 4f
him 10 20 swimming
There was no supper in the Watson home that
evening for just about meal time the news arrived that
Philip had been drowned.
out in sandusky Ohio Mrs Frederick Wohcm
dreamed that her daughter Elsa who had been dead for
lea years reappeared and beckoned to her The
night she dreamed that her mother who had been
beckoned The third night The figure Of Death
wrapped a black mantle and carrying lighted taper,
entered beckoned the others had done.
she told these weird dreams TO her husband and several
neghbors who naturally made light Of them Three days
later Mrs Woheim dead
on College Hi in Valparaiso, Indiana, old Tom Plat
operated store which for many years had been the
meeting place Of group Of his old friends and crones
one day surprised Them all by refng OF dream he
had the night before.
I dreamed that dead" explained the old
friends, but that possessed the strange power
for could see all that went about
me- although unable 70 move or speak watched the
preparations for my burial and recognized you fell
lows my pall-bearers.
Il can recall the funeral services held in Memorial
and the ride to the cemetery. Then you lowered my
grave just the first shovel full Of
earth thrown upon the box awoke from my trance
and called, and you helped me to get out
The following morning old Tom Pratt was found dead
in his bed The funeral services were held in Memorial
Hall and the pall-bearers the friends whom
he had recently told about his singular vision
The theory of coincidence would have to stretch pretty
far account for such a
Just curious perhaps the dream OF Harry
Pendergast worker the Lackawanna ferry Hoboken,
New Jersey He dreamed that he stricken blind while
work the very evening when about TO leave,
blind his dream had foretold He could
absolutely nothing, and in that helpless condition had to
be to his home in cab by two coworkers Special
lists who called in said his hopeless.
The remarkable. however the dream that
came to William Erwin a lawyer from St Paul during
visit to South Dakota in 1875 While in Bismsrk he met
Yellowstone Kelly noted Indian scout who had been
with General Miles during his Indian campaigns.
night several weeks after Kelly had returned to
the Indian country the lawyer sprang out Of bed exclam
ing "Kelys danger The Indians about to ambush
him a canyon. There is only way Of escape He
must straight forward for quarter mile double back
distance then turn sharply to the left applying
spurs whip to the horse with all his might II he
does this, he'll escape"
A month later the lawyer met the scout again in
Bismarck, and suddenly asked
Where you the night Of September 2Oth y
Where -" echoed Kelly with whistle. Why,
man. forget that night long live cause
death I've been in my life The pesky
redskins had me cornered box canyon, but somehow
managed TO give EN- the sip there's couple bullets