Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1859 — A Murder Revealed by a Dream. [ARTICLE]

A Murder Revealed by a Dream.

i A miraculous discovery of a horrible muri der is related by a Belgian journal of which | .we make a summary; Two brothers, Jews,! I set out from Gye k with a view of placing | i their two daughters at a boarding school in : I . the town of Grqssa vardein. During the ; night of their absence, the youngest! , daughter, aged ten, who was left at home,! woke up her mother during the night, and ' crying bitterly, declared that she saw her j father and uncle, and all being murdered, j The mother, for some time took no n tice ■ of the, child's declaration. But, as she per- i sisted, and would not be pacified, she began ! to be alarmed' herself, and the next morning i took the child before the Mayor of the town I !to whom she declared her clream, stating at I I the same time that the murderers were two men living in the neighborhood, whom she deliberately pointed out, and further added i that the murder was committed at the eni trance of the forest, on the road to Grossa■l wnrdein. * The Mayor after receiving this revelation, Thought it prudent to make inquiry after the ! two neighbors indicated by the child, when, • singular enough, they were discovered to’be : absent from Lome. This suspicious circumstance induceil’t'he Mayor to dispatch some i officers to the forest alluded to by the child, ; who discovered the horrible spectacle of five 1 bodies extended on the ground, which were ; those of the two brothers, the two daughters, ; ambthe driver of the vehicle in which they .all took their departure. The corpses api peared to have <TII been set on fire, so us to ! destroy their identity, and the vehicle was nowhere to be discovered. This horrible i , ' ; tragedy led the officers to examine the whole : ne'igiiborhood,when they fortunately pounced j upon the two neighbors at a fair not far distant, as they were in the very act of changing ’ some Xn-,tes oil which some .-pots of blood were visible. On being seized-they ■ immediately Iconfessed tlieir crjme, and on ■ the child’s dream being revealed to them, I acknowledged! the finger of Pry vidcnee displayed in tlieir capture. This wonderful dream on the part of the child, and its fulfilhhent,' excited an immense sensation in t b. e ■ n e i gh b o r h o o/1.