WOMAN'S STRANGE DREAM

Evening Star, Issue 21621, 17 January 1934, Page 12

WOMAN'S STRANGE DREAM

NEIGHBOUR'S DEATH FORETOLD ACCIDENT TO BABY ALSO SEEN. A woman who in a dream saw the death of a neighbour and an accident to her baby daughter told the story at an inquest at Croydon, London, recently. Botii the accident and the death, she stated, occurred just as she had dreamed. The inquest was on Herbert Richard Clode, a .fifty-eight-year-old watch repairer, who was found dead on the landing at his home by his son, who'forced an entry through a window. Mr Clode had been living alone since his wife’s death in September, and had been depressed. He had taken to singing hymns, and said that he had lost all interest in worldly things. By his side was a cup which had contained potassium cyanide. He was Jast seen alive on November 8.

Mrs Gladys Foster, who lived next door, said that on November 7 Mr Clode brought back a watch she had asked him to repair, explaining that lie could not do the work as his nerves were so bad.

“ Oil Tuesday night,” witness continued, “ I had a dream that Mr Clode was dead on the landing in his house, and I could not rest. The next morning . I went to Mrs Bell, a friend of Clode’s, and asked her to find his son, as I was worried.”

The Coroner: Was the body in just the position you saw it in your dream P Witness: Yes, exactly. Have you had prophetic dreams before.

Witness: No, never. I dreamed that I crawled up the stairs alone on my knees, and as I went to touch the body the dream changed, and J saw my baby knocked down in the road by a bicycle. Through my screams my husband woke me up.

Did you see the child knocked down? —Yes, when I was with her on Wednesday morning. I have heard of cases of a single event being foretold in a dream, but not two—it was vivid and real. The Coroner; I do not know that I ought to put this on the depositions, but it seems worthy of record. A verdict of “ Suicide while of, unsound mind ” was returned. Mrs Foster, in an interview afterwards, said: “The baby was my child, Mavis, aged four. IWe were walking when she was knocked down by a man on a bicycle. She ran in front of the machine, and it was entirely her own fault. She only cut her knees, but it was exactly as I had dreamed. I am not given to dreams, for J always sleep well.”