SLEEPWALKER'S LEAP.
JUMP FROM A TRAIN. In his sleep a .Duntroon student named V. E. Hancock leaped from the Mel-bourne-Adelaide express recently when it was travelling at 30 miles! an hour. Soon after the train had left Horsham Hancock, dreaming that ha was on the wrong train, jumped from ths window of a sleeping compartment. By remarkable fortune Hancock escaped uninjured, and, after recovering from the shock of being so rudely awakened, he walked, in his pyjamas to Horsham Station.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19832, 30 December 1927, Page 10
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80SLEEPWALKER'S LEAP. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19832, 30 December 1927, Page 10
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