A PRISONER'S VISION.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 150, 24 April 1914, Page 4

A PRISONER'S VISION.

A. striking- case of telepathy is recounted in connection with what is described as the San Bemo motor-car, tragedy. . The warders in charge of the young murderer, Albert Wolff, who shot a Leipzig silk merchant dead for the purpose of robbing, his pocket-book, heard shrieks proceeding from the prisoner's cell. On rushing in to ascertain the cause they found Wolff seated o,n the bed with great beads of perspiration on his forehead and his eyes starting out of their sockets, crying out repeatedly in an agony of terror: "Mother has killed herself." When somewhat calmed down WjoliT explained that he had beheld a terrifying vision of his mother throwing herself from a window in an upper floor. -He had then seen her corpse lying in the street. Tidings have just reached Italy that the murderer's mother, overi whelmed with .grief, actually committed suicide in Stuttgart in the manner described only a few hours before Wolff had the visiion, which has left him raving mad. Mental experts doubt whether he will recover his reason. His hapless lo.ver, Elsa Kjcller, a 19-year-old girl, was present at the tragic scene.