A GIRL’S SECOND SIGHT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2418, 5 February 1909, Page 2

A GIRL’S SECOND SIGHT.

AN AMERICAN STORY

A remarkable psychic problem is reported from Chicago, where, it is stated Miss Arvilla iSoganson, -aged nineteen, saw a vision of the murder of her brother, Oscar, a farmer, at -Marengo, 66 miles away; she was able -also to reveal the spot where days before Miss Sogansoii had insisted that her brother had been murdered by a neighboring farmer. The family paid no attention to her story, until finally the MrJ urged the dispatch of a telegram, which brought the reply that Oscar had disappeared. Miss Soganson and an elder brother then went to Alarengo. where the girl, accompanied by the police, led the wav to the house of Oscar’s neighbor, J. Bedford, which w-as closed. The door was broken an. and spots of blood were

found on the floor, the walls, and the kitchen, but no trace of the body, until Aliss Soganson conducted the police to a chicken-house, which was paved with cobbles. Pointing to one corner she said: “My poor brother is there.” Tho police said that this was invnossible, for there was no evidence that the cobbles bad been removed since the house was built ; but the girl becamo hysterical, and the police, to quieten her, began to dig. When a coat was found beneath the stones Miss Soganson ran from the house, screaming: “That’s ray brother’s coat.” The police dug further and discovered the body oft beneath, the surface, the head battered in with an axe. The police telegraphed Bedford’s description throughout the country, and he was arrested at Ellis, Nebraska. Both men lived alone on.their farms. Miss Soganson had not been axay from Chicago for many weeks, and there is no way in which she could have known of the murder except that sho says she felt Oscar’s spirit exercising an influence over her.