Saw it in a Dream. The Enactment of a Robbery Portrayed to a Sleeper.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 196, 26 March 1887, Page 7

Saw it in a Dream. The Enactment of a Robbery Portrayed to a Sleeper.

Miss Irene Merriman, IS years old, lives with hor widowed aunt. Mrs Carrie Bernan, in Leland Avenue, New Rochelle. Mrs Bernan is a sister of ex-Recorder James M. Smith. On Thursday morning Miss Merriman reported to the police that she had been robbed of a gold watch and 27d015. in cash, and that burglars had been in the houee and packed up a °eal plush sacque, a brown dresa trimmed with brocade belonging to her, her aunt's brown cloth dress and a shawl, all of which were left on the floor. After she had reported the robbery she said to Captain Conkling that she had -dreamed during the night where the watch was, and had gone out and found it in the fork of an old apple tree, just where she dreamed it was. She said she did not dream where the money was. Conkling decided to make no investigation. Recently a reporter saw Miss Merriman. She said that at 12 30 o'clock at night she was disturhed by the rattling of a newspaper in her room, but being sleepy she turned over and went to nleep, and draamed that in the house was a good looking, medium-sized, fair haired young man, with a blonde moustache and splendid figure, fie acted in the most gentle manner. She dreamed that he took a long stick, poked under the bureau where the money and watch were kept, p >shed them out and pressed them to his breaet as he departed. Then ehe dreamed he went down etaira and packed up the articles before described. She then had another scene in her dream, in which she saw the young man carefully hide the watch in the fork of an apple tree in an orchard near the' houee. Then, she says, she woke and went to hor aunt's room and said : " Aunt, the bouse is being robbed : come down with me" Her aunt, she said, was timid, and co she went alone. She found everything as she caw it in her dream. Then ehe called up her nearest neighbour, George Scbirmer, by firing of her revolver, and he came in ana witnessed the condition of things. She then went out and found the watch in the tree. The money was not found. She did not dream where it was. This is the third time that burglars have been reported in this house. The laei time was in August It was then reported that the girl had been chloroformed and the house robbed of 40dofe. Two weeks later the girl heard burglars again, and went to the window and fired off a revolver, which -so frightened the robbers that they did not •enter.