Show rb 0 40 oa a 8 0 8 lot V tragedies 0 o due to dreams it 1 tt t T 1 t f f fa medical has lone lant record of such cases casts e it A ab VI the recent remarkable case of henry C krause who strangled his mother hae has served to recall other instances on record in tho the history of medical jurisprudence where crimea have been connected with dreams and tlona tiona one of the oldest cases of the klod Is that of the english gamekeeper who was killed by his son both were guarding from poachers the preserves on which they were employed when I 1 the he son wearied with the long vigil tell fell 20 asep pep upon being suddenly awakened he seized his fowling piece and slow lit alfather evidently in his halt half awake condition acting under the delusion that he was attacking a boac poacher her he was tried and convicted but later was pardoned on the ground that because bo he did not know what he was doing there was no criminal intent to the action marc the noted english alienist aplis ot the famous case of a peddler who tell fell asleep on the highway having by his side a sword cane which he carried as a protection protect loa against rob here hers A traveler in passing cooped to arouse him thinking he might inight be cither or III 11 or intoxicated the peddler sprang up and stabbed him to dew with the sword cane he ile was convicted at his trial although he pleaded that he did not know what he was about when he committed the act another case ease cited by marc la Is that of bernard attacked by a phantom in a dream he at it with a hatchet and awoke awake to find that he had murdo ryd tid his wife who ho wa the reality of the phantom with he had struggled 1 ke e was acquit acquitted tet at 0 the charge of at murder the jury int 1 this case accepting the plea that bo had done it unconsciously from cleveland 0 cornea comes an account of at a well authenticated case that of a prominent resident of at that city out hunting and camping with a party of friends he was vas suddenly awakened from slee sleep pone one morning and shot a member of the party in the back inflicting a wound bich caused paralysis in 1878 simon frazer a Scotch scotchman mallo dreamed that he was attacked by a wild beast which he killed in his vl slon sion when he be awake he iwand that he had dashed nut out his childs brains against the bedpost new now press |