If You Do the Crime, Don’t Talk in Your Sleep

I've heard you talking in your sleep,

While researching some other things, I came across these two stories, and since they were so similar, I realized they needed to be put together. The first story is from 1906 and the second one from 1911. They both involve people whose crimes were discovered because they talked in their sleep.

People do talk in their sleep, that’s certainly true. However, these stories sound just a little too good to be true. More like a scene of someone talking in his or her sleep in a cheap comedy. You know, the sort of movie where the protagonist falls asleep and mumbles some embarrassing detail in the earshot of the wrong person. It always feels somewhat pat and contrived when it happens in a movie, so how ready are we to believe when someone tells us it happens in real life?

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I See an Acquittal in Your Future

Was another group thinking
that the jury should focus
on the evidence?

One of stories of 1914 was that of the murder of Theresa Hollander in Aurora, Illinois. Police arrested her former boyfriend, Anthony Petras for the crime. He had initially planned to marry her, but in the end married someone else. Some time later, she was clubbed to death in a cemetery. Sensational murders are always tried in the press as well as the courts, and all sorts want to get involved.

On June 23, 1914, The New York Sun reported that the Aurora Women’s Club was going to attempt to influence the jury. Of course, influencing a jury in a murder trial is a crime itself, but I doubt anyone was planning on arresting the members of the Women’s Club: they planning on using telepathy.

The Aurora Women’s Club announced to-day that the members would use telepathic influence on the jury trying Anthony Petras for the murder of Theresa Hollander in Auroroa, Ill. to secure a conviction. The trial began to-day at Geneva.

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