MURDER IN A DREAM.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 42, 18 February 1905, Page 13

MURDER IN A DREAM.

i ' c A. strange crime,- which the accused- alt legea was committed under the influence 5 of a dream, is reported In the "Friend of c India," fiom a village in Upper Burmah. 3 A man who was living In a- boose with t his two nieces, aged 11 and 18, took home j a Jowl and asked them to cook It.for the evening meal. As it was fall nioorr day, _ trie girls objected on religions grounds.' f The uncle insisted upon the meat fieinf . prepared; but by some oversight the as- , ual food offering to propitiate the god was ' omitted. When the man was asleep Be , states that he dreamt he had become a j ldng, and taat his right to the throne was being qne«tioned by two policemen. Thinking he was fighting them, he seized his knife, but attacked his two nieces, who " sovn succumbed to their dreadful injnr- •» ies. ———• S The man, still sleeping, rested for a c while, asd when he awoke, being still hna pressed by his dream, struck a match, and n then perceived the mangled bodies of tiw a two girls. He collapsed at the Bight ot b the blood, and wept bitterly till daylight when he reported the matter to the vll il Ugc apthoriUe», who pat blia asda at