A Murder Prevented by a Dream

Te Aroha News, Volume 1, Issue 45, 12 April 1884, Page 4

A Murder Prevented by a Dream

A gentleman a friend of Mr Calcott's (a worthy clergyman of Bristol), observed tc. him the other morning that he had been much alarmed the night before by a dream —so strong, so lively, and distinct that no length of time could efface it from his recollection ; that a woman, whom he circumstantially described to Mr Calcott, had appeared before him and made an attempt upon his life,and that his visionary murderess was so strsngly impressed upon his memory that he still shuddered when he thought of her. Mr C. smiled, and the subject was changed. About a dozen years after, as the gentleman who had the dream was travelling in Germany, what were his horror and amazement on reaching the inn where he to was sleep when he beheld the very woman (precisely the same in dress, person, and features), whom he had seen in a dream in England twelve years before. He consulted with his servant, and they retired, after supper to a two-bedded chamber, where they lay with cocked pistols and beating hearts attending the event. Accordingly after all the family had retired to rest, the door of the appartment waspushedopen, and the woman made her appearance with a weapon in her hand. The English travellers, however, soon secured her, and thus by an interposition, which even an atheist must allow to be providential, where the lives of two innocent persons rescued from the attack of an assassin. — From " The New Novelist."