SECOND SIGHT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9340, 8 January 1909, Page 2

SECOND SIGHT.

A remarkable psychic problem is reported from Chicago, where Miss Arvilla Soganson, aged 19, saw in a vision the murder of her brother Oscar,, a farmer, at Marenog, 66 miios away, was able to reveal the spot where the body lay buried (says the Standard’s New York correspondent). For several days Miss Soganson had insisted that her brotner had been murdered by a neighbouring farmer. The family paid no attention to her story until finally the girl urged the despatch of a telegram, which brought the reply that Oscar had disappeared. Miss Soganson aud an eider brother then went to Marengo, where the girl, accompanied by police, led the way to the house of Oscar’s neighbour, J, Bedford, which was closed. The door was broken in. and spots of Iglood were found on the floor, the walls, and the kitchen, but no traoei A.AfHk l. r * * Sit i M

of the body, until Miss Soganson conducted the police to a chicken house, which was paved with cobbles. Pointing to one corner, she said: *‘ My poor brother is there.” The police said that this was impossible, for there was no evidence that the cobbles had been removed since the house was built, but the girl became hysterical, and the police, to quiet her, began to dig. When a coat was found beneath the stones Miss Soganson ran from the house screaming: “That’s my brother’s coat.” The police dug further, and discovered the body five feet beneath the surface, the head battered in with an axe. Miss Soganson had not been away from Chicago for many weeks, and there was no .way in which she could have known of the crime through natural channels. She herself is unable to explain how she knew of the murder, except that she says she felt Oscar’s spirit exercising an influence over her. *