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Nightmares

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prove his theory by having at a specified time.
After he had gone sleep night friend with whom
he had arranged the matter the room and
drummed on tin pan-and the sleeper had nightmare
about a terrific battle.
highly successful experiment so the psychologist
reasoned and that might lead discoveries great
Importance For dreams could be made to order might
be possible TO gain through them important knowledge
that could come in other way:
The possibilities endless With a science of
dreams all knowledge might be within grasp even
the riddle of the universe wild flight fancy perhaps
but sec what has really happened through dreams.
Take the recent of murdered travelling sales
Albert c. Gregg, of Mount Vernon Tennessee One
night he found lonely spot Chattanooga
dead from bullet wound In one of his pockets the
police found two-weeks-od letter his wife In it.
Mrs Gregg told about her that entccd
lonely spot and shot she begged
him to home and his life
Later, when a suspect arrested. Mrs Gregg
journeyed Chattanooga police she had seen
the murderer in her dream suspect up
her with dozen other and she asked pick
the she had seen in her sleep. Without
hesitation she pointed to the the police had
One night some years ago, Mrs Fannie Mather, Of
Seattle dreamed that her sister Mrs Mary J. Short Of
Topeka, had been murdered. Then came the news
her sisters death Of heart disease The Topeka police
had no suspicion that a crime had been committed.
1T wasn't heart attack" declared Mrs. Mather
positively. 1T murder"
She set Immediately for Topeka, hired detectives
and two weeks later Fred Tanning arrested and
fessed that he had poisoned Mrs. Shorts coffee,
Or take the curious George w. Jones a
the Texas State prison at Huntsville He pardoned
in 1908 after he had served IL the charge Of
to the mans conviction but his wife believed him innocent
moved Huntsville where she made her home right
in the shadow Of the prison walls.
One day guard to him and said Jones here is
paper for you"
The convict reached for it eagerly hoping it was a
message from his wife And so it was but a most
unexpected a summons divorce suit. He turned
white 1t terrible blow for never for minute, had
he lost faith in her
Jones was working at the time in the prison yard and
Ratchet lay nearby. He picked it up stretched his right
log and with savage blow, chopped off
his
this hand back my wife" he said land tell
my to her divorce petton-my good right
hand that has never committed crime but has worked
all these years for her support"
The taken to the prisoners wife who tainted
the grsy sight But the CHASTITY token and the bitter
message that accompanied it had effect She got her
divorce and afterward married again
long miserable years followed the prisoner
But in the meantime stranger thing had hap
pened. the little Of Chester, Texas lived a
named John II Waldrp Waldrip had heard the story Of
the hand and ne had deep sympathy Jones'
the spring OF 1908 Mr.. Waldrip had a fantastic
dream Of a womans murder. Everything In II distinct
the the victim and her murderer He
culprt escape and the passed the
Of an innocent and his final conviction.
John Waldrp awoke convinced that the prisoner at
Huntsville innocent and he determined TO fight
the man free He found that everything his
with the facts known He built up little by
powerful defense for the prisoner that convinced
States Governor. And at last Jones pardoned.
In Taylortown New Jersey, Lucy Alvord told her
brother Claude morning that she had dreamed her
great grandfather who died 1897 her bedside,
shook her awake kitchen. in a wing Of
the built before the Revolution There opened
~ brick alongside the fireplace stepped
inside out with stone jar From that jar he
poured the kitchen table pile gold pieces Then
down piled the gold into stacks counted them and
made figures paper. which he put in his pocket
Claude Alvord decided the story worth invosga-
ing and he attacked hewan II the old with
bar Breaking through he found 10 his establishment crock
which 81 900 in old supposed 90 have belonged
20 Slss AIyord the great randparcnt Then
called that the old relatives thought had lost
al has money n wildcat banks.