SAW MURDER IN A VISION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 448, 9 January 1909, Page 4

SAW MURDER IN A VISION.

- '■ ■ - \ A remarkable psychic problem is reported from Chicago, where Orvilla Logausou, a* nineteen-year-old girl, saw in a vision the murder of her brother Oscar, a farmer at Marengo, a town sixty-six miles away, and also revealed the spot where the body was buried. For several days Miss Loganson asserted that her brother had been murdered by a neighbouring farmer. The family paid no attention, until finally the girl insisted on sending a telegram, which brought the reply: “ Oscar has disappeared.” Then Miss Loganson and her elder brother went to Marengo. Miss Loganson, accompanied by the police, led the wav to the residence of Oscar Loganson’s neighbour, a farmer named James Bedford. 'I he house was dosed and the doors were barred. When one door bad been broken down the police found spots of blood on tire floor and the walls of the kitchen. Miss Loganson then led the police to a fowlhouse, which was paved with cobblestones. Pointing to one corner she said : “My poor brother is there.” The police inspector said it was impossible, for there was no evidence that the cobble-stones had been removed since the fowlhouse was built. Thereupon Miss Loganson became hysterical, and the police, to quieten her, removed the stones. After probing they found a coat, whereupon the girl ran from the building screaming, “That is my brother’s coat.” The police continued digging, and discovered Oscar Loganson’s body buried five feet below the surface. The head had 1 been crushed with an axe. The police telegraphed Bedford’s description throughout the country, and he was arrested at Ellis, Nebraska. Both Loganson and Bedford lived alone on their > farms, and the police believe that i Bedford enticed Loganson to his i house and then murdered him for ' purposes of robbery. Miss Loganl son had not been away from her 1 borne in Chicago for many weeks. She cannot explain how she new s of the crime, or of the location of * the body, except that she felt that [ her brother’s spirit was exercising i an influence over her.