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November 26th, 1884. I know nothing about the case I mentioned to Mr. Barmby beyond what I gave him in writing. Mr. Clarke, a tradesman in Hull, told me of the case of Mrs. Palliser, and got her to come to his office, in Queen Street, Hull, for me to take down from her own lips the notes I gave to Mr. Barmby. I took great pains to get the whole of the story correctly. u j rp Fowler Mr. Clarke writes :— „ Winterton Hall, Doncaster. January 20th, 1885. Widow Palliser was a woman who had seen better days, and worked for my firm, Clarke and Son, Clothiers, Queen Street, Hull. She had an only son, Matthew. I assisted her in getting him to sea. One morning she came to me with tears rolling down her cheeks and said, ' Mat's dead ; I saw him drowned ! Poor Mat, the last words he said were, Oh ! my dear mother. He threw up his hands and sank to rise no more.' I asked how she knew. She said, ' I saw him going on board his ship, and the plank that he walked upon slipped on one side, and he fell overboard between the quay and the ship, and was drowned. My own mother, who had been dead many years, came to the foot of my bed and said, Poor Mat's gone ; he's drowned. ' * I then said, ' Why, Mat's in New York ' (I always felt interested in this woman and her son). ' Yes,' she said, * he was drowned last night at New York ; I saw him.' Mrs. P.'s object in coming to me was to ask if I would write to the agent in New York, to ascertain the facts. I said I would, and wrote stating that a poor widow had an only son on board such a ship, and she had a vision that an accident (I said nothing about drowning) had happened to her son, and I would take it as a great favour if he would ascertain and tell me all particulars. In about 3 to 5 weeks (she came day by day to ask if we had received a reply, always saying that she knew what the answer would be), at length, the letter arrived. We sent for Mrs. P., and before the letter was opened by my son, I said to her, ' What will be its contents 1 ' She at once and decidedly said that ' Mat was drowned on the very night that she saw him, and in going on board the ship the plank slipped, and he fell overboard between the quay and the ship.' So it was. Mrs. P. was then wearing mourning for Mat. My son and half-a-dozen young men can verify this if needful.2 Mrs. P. died soon after. « jyj- yy Clarke. Reproduction of the letter received from the agent of the ship, as nearly as I and my son can remember : — ' New York, date unknown. ' I have made inquiries of Matt