We obtained the following answers to questions sent to Mr. William Todd, January 15th, 1891, re Dr. Wiltsés Vision.

Q. 1. "Did Dr. Wiltse describe to you picture appearances which he said he was seeing at the time?"

A. 1. "Yes".

Q. 2. "Did he describe particulars of what he was seeing, such as the print of a bloody hand upon the door-facing of the Cass Davis House; the sound of a gun inside; one man running out in apparent fright and the other staggering out of the doorway and dying upon the ground near the door?"

A. 2. " He did describe the place and asked me if I knew of such a place; I told him that it was the Cass Davis House".

Q. 3. "Do you recollect if he told you he believed something of such nature had happened in the Cass Davis House, or else would in the future?"

A. 3. "He told me that something had happened at that place, or would in the future".

Q. 4. "Did the future events in that house, in the matter of the death of H. Whittaker, lead you to conclude that Dr. Wiltse really saw that night what he told you he was seeing?"

A. 4. "It did as to H. Whittaker, and I do believe he saw what he said he saw." Wm. Todd, January 26th, 1891.

Mr. M. Haun writes as follows to Dr. Hodgson: -

Kismet, Tenn., March 2nd, 1891.

Your request received, and will say in reply, 1st, that I remember Dr. A. S. Wiltse having told me of his " prophetic vision," but whether it was before or after the fulfilment I can't say. However, the facts were about as follows: The young man shot himself in the mouth while attempting to blow in the gun; ball passed out through the back of his neck just in the edge of his hair, rupturing some large vein or artery. He fell instantly and was unable to utter a word intelligibly. He raised himself up on his hands with his head drooping over, and from his mouth the blood ran profusely, making a large pool of blood upon the floor. I ran about forty rods from the house to call the nearest help, and on returning found the young man lying full length, flat on his face, dead, his hat lying on the doorstep; the print of his hand made on door-casing; it seemed that he had crawled out upon his hands and knees.

Now the hand-print on the door; the blood-stained hat on the doorsteps; the kind of house and its location; the season of the year when the accident occurred, correspond with the Dr.'s vision, if I remember correctly.

The tragedy occurred, I think, in the month of July, not far from the 18th. As to when the Dr. had this vision or dream I don't remember.

No. I don't remember thinking of his vision at the time, for, as before stated, I don't remember having heard it before, although I might have heard it. Maniphee Haun.

Mr. J. Bales writes to Dr. Hodgson: -

Wartburg, Tenn., March 14th, 1891.

In reply to yours of 2/27, will say that I remember hearing Dr. Wiltse talk of the occurrence you mentioned in regard to the tragedy which happened at the Cass Davis Place. He told me of it before it happened, and when it did occur he came and asked me if I remembered what he had told me about it before. As to the dates, I can't remember exactly, but it must have been twelve or fourteen years ago. There was no newspaper published here at that time, and there was never any publication of it, so far as I am aware.

I do not remember the appearance of a bloody hand on the door or anywhere else, but there was blood on the house in different places.

Would have answered you sooner, but I wanted to remember correctly before writing. Dr. A. S. Wiltse considered a truthful and honest man here. James Balks.

Mr. Howard writes to Dr. Hodgson: -

Kismet, Tenn., March zyd, 189[i]. Your inquiry of recent date just received, and will say in reply that Dr. Wiltse told his vision to Mr. William Todd and his wife, my stepfather and my mother, a short time before the occurrence. I was informed by Mr. Todd that the details in the case were exactly similar to the Dr.'s vision. My mother stated the same fact in my hearing, but she is now dead. I understand from different parties that the blood-print, etc, were exactly as seen in the vision. Dr. Wiltse was stopping at our house (Mr. Todd's) at the time, and, after relating his vision, my stepfather recognised the place described as the "Cass Davis House," where the tragedy afterwards occurred. I would refer you to Mr. William Todd for further particulars, as he probably remembers the date; I do not. W. T. Howard.

I may refer also to a small group of predictions of numbers to be drawn in the conscription for the Belgian army; the report of which was sent in 1894 by Professor G. Hulin, of the University of Ghent, to Professor Sidgwick, and given by me at length in the paper already mentioned {Proceedings S.P.R., vol. xi. p. 545). Five cases of the right numbers being predicted during the eight years, 1886 - 94, are given on good authority; the numbers in the first four cases being respectively, 90, 112, 216, 111. The first case was an especially striking one; a clearly externalised vision of the number 90 appeared to the percipient, and produced a strong impression on his mind, convincing him that he would draw that number. In the fifth case the man who was to draw first announced that his number would be 116, and on being told that that was already drawn, said it would be 115, which turned out correct. The report only professes to give correct predictions, and we have no means of knowing how often predictions of these numbers are made which turn out wrong. Neither are we told how many numbers there were to draw from, except in one case, where it appears that there were at least 150, the lowest of them being 46 and the highest 223. In this case the number 216 was the one rightly guessed.

We must assume, I think, that these facts were known to the man who was to draw - the narrative certainly does not exclude this supposition, and, in fact, rather suggests it - and, if so, the chance of his making a correct guess was, of course, about 1 in 150, and the cases are hardly numerous enough to exclude the explanation of chance coincidence.

Dr. G. B. Ermacora, in an article published in 1898 in the Rwista di Studi Psichici (of which a translation, with the title "Sur la possibilité des théories rationnelles de la prémonition," appeared in the Annales des Sciences Psyehiqucs, January-February, 1899, p. 46), suggests that the fulfilment of premonitions about the results of drawing by lot - when the drawing is done by the person who experiences the premonition - might be explained by telæsthesia, as we might suppose that in such a case the drawing of the number is not accomplished blindly, but is guided by a supernormal perception which leads the subject to select automatically, and probably unconsciously, the particular number.