DISCOVERED IN A DREAM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10347, 23 January 1897, Page 2 (Supplement)

DISCOVERED IN A DREAM.

Much oxcitement has been caused in Norwood through the mysterious disappearance from hie home in Anerley Vule of Mr. Samuel Green, a well-known resident. Mr. Green told his son George that be was going away, and added, "I shan't return again. Good-bye. I leave all my belongings to you." The son went into the house to tell his mother what had occurred, and upon returning to the front door he found that his father had gone. No trace of Mr. Green could afterwards be discovered. Search parties were organised the whole district scoured, and the police' wore pat upon the trail, but without result. Mr. Charles Greon, a brother, states that he dreamt) that hia brother had committed suicide somewhere in Kent. So vivid was the vision that the next morning he procured the Kent local paper, and in one of these he saw a short paragraph stating a man had been found dead with his throat cub in the roadway near Pratt's Bottom, Orpington, Kent. Mr. Green took the paper to the policestation, bub the police inspector said that the body found at Orpington was not that of the missing man, as at the inquost the deceased was described as being 63 years of age, and the miseihg man Green was only 38. Mr. Charles Green, however, set about ■making inquiries for himself.- Hβ.found that tho-carman who discovered the body ab Orpington lived at fJroydon, and determined to see him. The carman described the body, and from the description given, ,Mr. Green at once came to the conclusion than 16 ffas thab of hie Brother. He proceeded to Orpington, and found thab the •man had been buried. He was, however shown the clothes the dead man had been \yearinpr, and he ats once identified them as having belonged to-the misaing man.