Dreaming of Murder.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 33, 14 March 1883, Page 2

Dreaming of Murder.

; lii;the gaol of Davidson, County Tennessee, is confined, according to the Nashville American, a mau who is charged with murder,^ and who nightly, m a fit of somnambulism, repeats m pantomime the crime ofVhich.he is supposed to be guilty. He rises from his bed, and having peered about his cell into the corridor to assure 'himself that he is not observed, rolls up his bedclothes into the Semblance of a man , t sets- the figure od ''a^'iihair/'^ak^s a>| broom from th-; place where it is kept, '. raises it to his shoulder, goes through j 1 the motion of discharging a guny cr ! eps j stealthily up to the 'bundle of clothe, carries it to one corner of the cell,! scrapes at the ; flbon as if digging a j hjole, j lays down the bundle, and carries' Wtj the form of bnrjing it and coveririg ; the ; spot with leaves. He then carefully ex«i amines bis clothes as if looking for! blood, washes hia bands, retires to Chisi cot and sleeps soundly through the rest' of the ni«hfc. In the morning he de-' nies all knowledge of the crime and of hie ghastly rehearsal of it.