National Republican (Washington City

TWO STRANGE DREAMS.

A Singular Story Connected with the Supposed Murder of William Scott of Olean, N. Y.

HORNELLSVILLE, N. Y., Sept. 25.—New developments in a case of what was supposed to be accidental death in Olean indicate strongly that it was a case of murder. The victim was a young man named William Scott, whose dead body was found lying near the Erie railway track in Olean, about midnight on Tuesday of last week. There are several cuts on the head, back, and abdomen, and the verdict of the coroner's jury was that the man had been killed by the cars. It has since been learned that on the day of his death Scott had received $1,000 through the sale of some property. In the afternoon of that day he was seen in O'Mara's saloon boasting of his sale and displaying considerable money. He was with two strange men. Scott became so drunk that the men finally carried him out to a barn in the rear of the place, where they left him. Between 11 and 12 o'clock that night an acquaintance of Scott's met him with two men on the road between O'Mara's saloon and the Erie depot, near a piece of woods. It is remembered now that there was no blood either on the rails or anywhere on the track where Scott's body was found, and railroad men say that it would hardly be possible for an engine to either strike or run over a man there without the fact being known at once by the engineer or fireman. There was no money on Scott's person when he was found. A new investigation will be made.

Singular facts connected with Scott's death are the declarations of his brother, who lives in Bradford, Pa., and of his sister, whose home is in Rochester, each of whom claim to have witnessed in a dream the murder of their brother. The sister says that on the night of his death she saw him attacked by two men in the woods, who beat him to death and robbed him. She awoke screaming: "Don't touch the money! There's blood on it!" She was frightened so that she arose and struck a light, and saw by a clock in her room that it was a little past 11 o'clock. The brother had a similar dream at the same hour, and was unable to sleep again during the night, so oppressed was he by the seeming reality and terror of the scene he had witnessed.