SLEEPWALKING TRAGEDY
Suddenly awakening at a hotel at Hurley, near Maidenhead, where they wore staying, a South Kensington woman was horrified to see her husband stepping out of a window. Sho shouted, but the man, Charles Eraser Keegan, aged 4.'!, a company director, took no notice and fell. Ho died in Middlesex Hospital from a broken neck. It was revealed at the Paddington inquest that Keegan was a sleepwalker who joked about his malady. When picked up ho believed he had been in a car smash. Recording a verdict of Accidental death," the coroner, Mr. Ingleby Oddie, remarked that sleepwalking was not very common in adults, although it was among children.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22256, 2 November 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)
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111SLEEPWALKING TRAGEDY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22256, 2 November 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)
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