SLEEPWALKING TRAGEDY
Suddenly awakening at a hotel at Hurley, near Maidenhead, where they were staying, a South Kensington woman was horrified to see her husband stepping out of a window. She shouted, but the man, Charles Fraser Keegan, aged 43, a company director, took no notice and fell. He 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 he 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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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22721, 6 November 1935, Page 4
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