Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1913 — She Dreams of Burglar and Finds Him in Room [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

She Dreams of Burglar and Finds Him in Room

Atlantic city, n. j.— Dreaming that a burglar had entered the home of Mrs, Rachel Somers, her employer, Mis? Anna Roseelle, a trained nurse, awoke in. the early morning. Standing bver her was a masked man, who pointed a pistol at her. “It's four minutes of three,” he whispered. “Don’t you stir or a sound until six minutes after. If you do, you’re a dead one. It’ll take me ten minutes to clean up here.” “All right, but promise me you won’t go near the girls,” replied the nurse. "That goes,” was the answer. He vanished, and she watched the minute hand of a clock tick away minutes that seemed hours. When the hand pointed to six minutes after the hour she slipped out of the room into the next one, where Margaret Littleton and Edith Crouch, nieces of Mrs. Somers, were asleep. Placing her hands over their mouths she awakened them, whispering: "There’s a burglar in the house!” Telling them to remain where they were she tiptoed to the front of the house, lifted a window and shouted for help.

A policeman and a milkman responded. They searched the’house and found a trail of burned matches and upturned furnishings. The burglar had obtained jewelry worth $2,000, but had missed the Diseton jewels, valued at more than $40,000, left to a daughter of Mrs. Turner. They were, in a safe in a wall. In speaking of her experience later, Miss Rosselle, said she was more frightened in her dream than when she actually faced a real live, flesh and blood burglar. “At first,” she said, "I couldn*t realize that I had really awakened, but the man was so near me that I got the odor of liquor and tobacco. Then I knew that it was no dream.”