WALK AT MIDNIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 143, 20 June 1927, Page 9

WALK AT MIDNIGHT.

SLEEP-WALKER WAJTDEKS DT j RAX2Y. >YMON"DS STREET STARTLED. ! M\'-tori-I'ia midnight wandering bv a woman wearing only a. nisdi*-<ire>y startled por.ple in Sysonds Street last r.icbt. Afur rambling about in her sleep fitr a vrr.° *he disappeared, cold and wet, down a ri~bt-o£-way. This morning in-1 quirios were mad.; at the house where j :t thr>T:~ht she Tv-'ct, but the owner* . said they knew nr.rhin~ of the woman and her strange increment.-. Nobody, kcnw« who she is. \Th<>n the roaming fijrure wi« first seen ' it w!5 followed by several men and a woman ir.to Princes Street. Then it went Va.-k ir.to Syrconds Street, made a ■ ietcTir iif a vacant section through long w,-r. rra«#. and wandered on throogh ::■•? rain, ignoring everybody. following were afraid to waken tne woTr.an. Soirebody pot in touch with the police, and two constables arrived, bat thev. :■>.. th- usht it inadvisable to wake the won.an. At last, when the sleeper got to the top of Constitution BUI, she was asked by one of the men where she was !>he switched round, and walking .it lionhle her original pace made up Syaiond* Street again. She b-ad pane only a short way when she turned into the right-of-way and disappeared- One of the policemen followed her, while the ■£her tried to wake the people of the house, but could not ronse them. Soon the other policeman came hack ind announced tha.t she was back in be<L an occupant of the house having assiired him that all was weii. Waen inqtiiries were made this r.-irc-■a? at the house it wa« the woman entered, the owner-- *a.: that r.o iady load le:t the hou~.» during tie nipht. "The landlady w a - irrdirnant that anyor." should ha->e : .-i■e•i her house in -earrh of a woman who hai wantiered 1 n her sleep.