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A Very Peculiar Dream

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
March
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Tbe story sent to the Detroit Tribune and Evening News to the effect that it was the startlingly realistic dream of a Plymouth woman which led to the arrest of Wm. Larkins, Ed. Lyons and Rupert Jones for the murder of James Richards, while true iu its details of the dream aforesaid, lacks all the elements of truth in ita statement that the dream was rtsponsible for the young men's arrest. The dream was not spoken of at all by the woman until two or three days after the murder, aud it was ouly last Saturday that Mr. Peterson was first told of the oircumstances of the dteam. The stoiy is to the effect "that on the night of the morder, early iu tbe eveniug she saw Jones in a cntter, and iu her dream she saw two other men get in with bina and drive to a place in the conntiy, the descriptiou of which corresponded to Richards' cabin. The three men got out, and two of thern went intu the house; but what occurred tbere the woman know uot. "Soon afterwards the two who entered carne out hurriedly, much excited, and the three got into the cutter and drove back to Plymouth. "The next morning tbe lady told Mrs. Jones about her dream. Sbe was asked not to say auythiDg, as Mrs, Jones' son was out tbat nigbt, and the story might cause suspicion, but the dream was so real to the lady that she could not help telling otber friends not, however, beoause she suspected there was auy truth to it, but because it was so realistic. "When Peterson heard of the dream he put two and two together, and began looking up Jones and his companions of the fatal night. "Saturday, Peterson and Deputy Ball went over tbe entire ground iu Plymouth, and the neighborbood of the murder. Peterson claims be will now be able to show that tbe three men were seen near the Richards farm thai night by two persons." Ann Arbor Cantón, No. 30, Patriarchs Militant, nominated offioers for the ensuing year last night.