AH LEE'S DREAM.
Tt will be remembered that a rutuor was •current, immediately after Ah Lee was bnnrr, ■♦bat be bad made a confession of hia guilt on the morning of <his execution, while in conversation with Wong Ah Tack, the Chinese' 'interpreter. We ('Herald') have Iven at • some trouble to find oiit Whether this was • really tbe case, and «ow learn that it was not The circumstnncpa which irave rise to the 'i txumor was as follows ' Wong Ah Tack, on I ■visiting the convict, asked .him lnw he felt, rand Ah l.ee replied that lie had had a had : -dream dnrint,' the niijht when he saw three ■devils Two of them were dressed in white, •■and the third in red garments. T-he devil in Ted said to Ah Xiee, " Von are yofnato <be iliuni> to morrow, and after you are hung von | will bo buried in the tfaol yard. In the world tt goiwe try and be a better man. May (Sod . 'liave mercy upon your soul." After Ah Lee Hi ad done speaking be gave a short laugh, but >lih made no connnetit oti trhe dream to Wong Ah i aclc• The (Jhinamen attach considerable importance to this narration of the convict, i -and have ever since being endeavoring to interpret the dream, or to discover Ah Lee's '■motive for relating it, but hitherto without success.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume X, Issue 581, 20 November 1880, Page 3
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229AH LEE'S DREAM. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume X, Issue 581, 20 November 1880, Page 3
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