Walked to Death in His Sleep
MAN SEVERS ARTERY IN ARM Per Press Association. GISBORNE, Last Night. An unusual accident befel a single man named Trevor Gerard, aged 25, employed on a road contract at Te Wera, near Matawai, who died in the Cook Hospital this morning from a severed artery, the result of walking in his sleep. The occupants of the house in which he lived were wakened in the early hours yesterday morning on hearing a disturbance and the sound of crashing glass. There was a big hole in the window and Gerard was found at the front door apparently still walking in his sleep. He was bleeding profusely from a severe wound on the fleshy part of his arm which he had apparently put through the glass window. He was removed to Cook Hospital last evening, but died this morning.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 81, 6 April 1938, Page 4
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