HONEYMOON TRAGEDY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23850, 28 December 1940, Page 2 (Supplement)

HONEYMOON TRAGEDY

Beautiful Bride was a Sleep-walker

TT is -widely believed fhat a sleepwalker never injures himself, however perilous may be (he feat he undertakes, stales a London pftper, This is far from being the truth. What is (rue is thai the sleepwalker knows no fear: the part of the brain capable of fear is asleep. Therefore he has confidence ol an unusual kind and can wall, along dizzy parapets and go through hair-raising adventures unscathed. A man who can walk straight along a plank lying on the ground is prevented by tear from walking along the same plank suspended over a chasm. but the sleepwalker is guaranteed no immunity, as one ot the most tragic cases on record proves. Hammering on Door A beautiful young American married a man with whom she was greatly in love. While on the honeymoon, the man was aroused one night by a hammering on his door and voices calling 011 him to open it. The intruders came to break to him the terrible news that bis wife had been

found dead nil the pavement below their window: she had walked out of the window in her sleep and crashed down eight or nine storeys. The bride's father testified at the inquest thai bis daughter had walked in her sleep as a child, but as she had not done so lor some time he thought she had got over the malady. The absence of fear would make that girl able to walk along a narrow I para|)et high above the street, but | sleep-walking could not give her imj iniinity from a slip of the foot on a | smooth stone. I YOUNG TREE-DWELLER i An Knglish boy aged ihirteon who became a tree-dweller in Windsor bWest. was sent to an approved school for three years, lie appeared at Windsor juvenile court, and if was said that lie .refused to !_'o to school because nobody j liked him. When lie was taken to school | he rati out of the building at the lirst opportunity and lie olten .slept in trees I for nights at a time.