Lovebs of the marvellous have the oppor\ tunity of finding a strange coincidence in » story recently told at the coroner's court at Birmingham. A girl aged thirteen disappeared from her home; her disposition was taciturn and sulky, which, conpled with her expressed threats of suicide, led to the | worst fears being entertained by her parents. Her body was subsequently found in the canal. The a«nt of the deceased, hearing that th? girl was missing, dreamt that she was walking along the bank of the canal, and , while looking into the water saw the face of her niece. The police were asked to drag the canal at the spot indicated in tbe dream; they did so, and at once found the body. Such wi the simple story told at the inquest, a statement; which if made in a novel would be ascribed to the powers of the writer's, I imftginttiqoA
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 4251, 22 June 1895, Page 3
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