Weekly News. — 1889-12-05 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

IROOOR DREAMS. The London edition of the New York Herald contains the following facts bearing upon the subject of dreams:—  In 1751 an Irish murderer was convicted largely upon dream evidence. A Waterford publican, named Rogers, dreamt one night that he saw a man murder another man on a green spot on the summit of an adjoining mountain. He was able next day to describe both men with perfect accuracy, and did so to many of his friends. One of the men was exceptionally strong, the other weak and puny; but it was the latter who, in the vision, committed the murder. Rogers persuaded the parish priest to accompany him to the spot, which he found without difficulty, but where there seemed to be nn traces of a murder or struggle. Hence Rogers got rather laughed at. Next day, however, two men entered the saloon, and Mrs. Rogers at once recognised them from her husband's description as the heroes in the vision. Much alarmed, she fetched her husband, who was also eertain thee weie the two men. When they rose to leave, Rogers begged the one he extincted to be murdered to remais, hut without avail. He nearly fainted with fright after the men had left, and finally persuaded a neighbour to accompany him to the green spot nn the hill, where, sure enough, the tragedy of the dream had taken place in reality. The murderer was tracked and caught, and Rogers was the principal witness. His recital of the dream was so vivid that the prisoner at once confessed, nailing that he killed his companion exactly as foretold in the dream. The weapon used was a knife, and as eight sta, . were seen by Rogers in his vision, so the murders, ,itted that he drove his knife up to the hsndle in his ,ompanton's body exactly that number of times. _ _  w—o-M-8.71-named Kraeme appeared before a Frankfort justice and arl:rd to be sworn, as she had valuable information about a crime committed in a temote village in Russia, many days' journey from her German home. The story she told the justice was this :—Ten years before her only son had left home. She heard nothing of him, and had no idea where he was living until the night before, when his spirit appeared to her and told her what she now hastened to relate The revelation was that after leaving home the young man had wandered about Europe, till he had finally found permanent work in the village of Klat, in Russia. Here he had fallen in love with a serf's daughter who had a Russian beau. On the preceding night this latter had inveigled the young Teuton into the eountry, where he had stabbed him, and then concealed the body in a cave off the highway. The justice kr ew that his informant was poor and had never been outside of her native town, and he was no struck with the vividness of her description of victim, assailant, and location that he forwarded it to a notary in Kiel In the meantitne, Karl Kraeme had been  missed, and, on receipt of the dream ,tnry, the police bunted for the cave, found it exactly as located, and also found the body with a wound corresponding witk that described in the vision. The murderer was al once arrested, and the widow Kraeme undertook the long journey to avenge her son's death. Her recital in court was vivid in the extreme, and she scritamed with fright when she first saw the prisoner, whom she identified and picked out from a crowd of men in • dimly-lighted cell. She also identified without as effort the woman who was at the bottom of the trouble. E., Poole.