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1914.] JAINA GAZETTE.
255 dannot have been known to the deceased before death. The classic instance-classic because so definite and so well. at- : tested is that of Mrs. Storie, an Australian living in Hobert Town.
By the testimony of Edmud Gurney, Professor Sidgwick, and other unquestionable authorities, she was a witness eminently deserving of trust, and her narrative received corroboration by her husband and by the careful verification of many quite minor incidental details which were capable of being checked.
She was a twin sister of a gentleman named William Hunter wbo one Saturday night was killed on the railway in Victoria. The line at the point where he was killed was a single track running on a road bed embanked about two feet above the level of the surrounding country. It seems that Mr. Hunter bad walked sixteen miles that afternoon, and it is concluded that he sat down, tired, on the sloping embankment to adjust some bandages on one of his legs—for ḥe had taken the boot offand had then lain back on the slope and dozed off with his head close to the line.
A train at 9:55 no doubt roused him ; a number of sheeptrucks passed without touching him, but some wooden projection, probably the step, of a passenger coach broke some ribs in his right side and struck the top of his skull, killing him instantly. His body was found on the Sunday morning.
Mrs. Storie's narrative of her experiences is best given in her. own words, which give a vivid idea of the effect produced in her, and also of “ the incoherent impressiveness” of ber series of visions. She says that on the Saturday evening in question she felt unusually nervous, and when she went to her room sho even felt as if there was someone there. She had never experienced any similar nervousness or “ presence" before. It seemed to her as it when she got into bed someone in thought tried to stop her.
At two o'clock sbe awoke from a series of visions that slie says, “seemed like dissolving views.”
“In a twinkle of light I saw a railway, and the puff of an engine. I thought, 'What's going on up there-travelling? Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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