WALKED IN SLEEP
Man Uninjured In 30ft Fall (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, February 20. A sleep-walker fell about 30ft from the fire escape of a tenement house in Grafton road, Grafton, in the early hours of this morning and escaped with a grazed thigh. He told rescuers that he had had a nightmare after eating a hamburger. The man, Mr Larry James Halloran, aged 19, a workman, was taken to the casualty department of the Auckland Hospital, but did not need treatment. The accident occurred about 12.30 a.m. Mrs D Norman, who lives at the same address, 83 Grafton road, said she heard Mr Halloran scream out for help and saw him hanging by one hand' from the fire escape rail outside his window on the second storey. Someone else went along the fire escape to try to reach him. but failed, she said. After his fall, Mr Halloran picked himself up and ran on to the road, where he narrowly escaped being hit by a taxi. He was taken to hospital by ambulance.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30062, 21 February 1963, Page 14
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