ADELAIDE SLEEP-WALKER

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 34, 10 February 1920, Page 3

ADELAIDE SLEEP-WALKER

IN NIGHTGOWN IN SfRLET

(FROU OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

SIDNEY, 28th January.

An extraordinary story of a sleepwalker comes from Adelaide. _ Jusi; before, daybreak last Sunday morning a. constable on duty in Bundle-street, Adelaide, saw a ghostly figure moving' slowly, a couple of hundred yards in front-of him. Ho followed ifc, at a, safe' distance, for a. while, but ho aioved up closer,- when—ii ma-do no effort to" attack",'.~aßd..presently recognised a case of somnambulism. It was a woman of about.ss, clad only in her nightgown, and ■ she was lightly and steadily walking westward. She was staring straight ahead, blankly and unacoingly . . , The constable hovered round, puzzled and uncertain what to do. He knew, oensible fellow, that it was a dangerous thing to jar a somnambulist suddenly from tho strange- condition of -trance; -yet tho woman gave "every indication of willingness to walk all night. ' The constablo walked beside her, but she took no notice, and they progressed thus for a hundred yards. Then the constable walked rapidly ahead, deliberately placed himsolf in tho woman's path, and let her collide with him. She gasped and woke, but displayed no excitement. The constable put his cloak round her and took : her' to tho police station. -.--

It was found that the woman had walk--from St. Peter's, a full two miles away. Tho police sent a messsnger for her husband, and when that alarmed a.n-3 worried man arrived ho found tho. lady comfortably asleep in the "parlour" cell. She said that she had been to a picture show' that night with her husband, and went to bed at the ordinary hour. From then, until the 'policeman awoko her in the street, her mind had been a complete blank. . .