BOY SLEEPWALKER

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12886, 12 June 1936, Page 4

BOY SLEEPWALKER

NIGHTMARES SINCE BIS MOTHER DIED.

SERIOUSLY INJURED IN FALL

NEW YORK, May 1

When David dc Pinna, agul ton. was told his mother had “gone to heaven,” he sought her even in his sleep, until hi fell from u window and was seriously injured. It was five months ago that David’s mother became very ill in their New Yorlc home. David would creep to her brdside. take her hand and beg her to get better.

For David and his mother had been such great pals. They walked, talked and joked together. And to her David trusted all his secrets.

When he grew up, he boasted be was going to make lots of dollars m order to buy his mother a big country house and jewels. One day his mother, fell aslcfp—nud she didn’t wake up. They followed her coffin to the cemetery, but David’s father said she had “gone to heaven.” “I want her,” said David.

Her death changed bin. At night he would rise in his sleep and move strangely about, as though searching for someone. Now be has walked probably for the last time. At ten o’clock at night David’s father heard a scream. David, in his sleep, had fallen through a thirddoor window, and hi.s broken sprawled on the pavement below. “Nightmare since his mother died!” sadly says the nurse when visitors gaze on him in hospital.