A Murder Prevented by a Dream

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 43, 12 April 1884, Page 3

A Murder Prevented by a Dream

A Gentleman a iriend of Mr Oalcott'* (a worthy clergyman of Bristol), observed to hio. the other morning that he had hen much alarmed the iiijrht befori! by a dream —so strong, ao lively, aud distinct that no leugth of time could efface it from his recollection : that a woman, whom he circumstantially described to Mr Calcott, had appeared before him and and made au attempt upon his life, and that his visional y murderess was so stroDgly impressed upon bis memory that he still shuddered when he thought of her. Mr C. smiled, and the subject was changed. About a i-ozen years after, as the gentleman who had "the dream was travelling 1 in Germany, what were bis horror and amazement on reaching the inn where he to was sleep when he beheld the very woman tbe same in dress, person, and feature*), whom he had seen in a or earn in England twelve years before. He consulted with his servaut, and they retired, aft«-r supper to a two-bedded chamber, where they lay .with cocked pistols and heating" hearts awaiting* the event. Accordingly after all the family bad retired to reHt, the door of the apartment was pu-hed open, and the woman made her appeurauce with a weanou io ber hand. The Euglish travellers, however, s. on lecured her, and thus by au ii)t«-rpo.-u*.ion, which eveu an atheist must allow to be providential, were the lives of two innocent persons rescued from the attack of an assassin . — From '* ihe IVew Novelist."