'A remarkable instance of retributive justice occurred very recently (1845) in Jamaica. A young and beautiful quadroon girl named Duncan, was found murdered in a retired spot a few paces from the main road. From the evidence given on the coroner's inquest, it was satisfactorily established that she had been violated previous to the murder. A large reward was offered for any information that would lead to the apprehension of the murderer; but nearly a year elapsed without any clue being obtained. It happened that about this period from the discovery of the murder, two black men, named Pendril and Chitty, were confined, for separate petty offences, one in the Kingston penitentiary, on the south, the other in Falmouth gaol, on the north, side of the island. Their imprisonment was unknown to each other, and the distance between their places of incarceration was eighty miles. Each of these men became restless and talkative in his sleep, especially expostulating as if in the presence of the murdered girl, and entreating her to leave him. This happened so repeatedly that it led to inquiries, which terminated in the conviction of the two men, with whom it appears were associated a third, who, however, escaped the extreme penalty of the law by a full confession.' - The Anatomy of Sleep.