A FEMALE SLEEP-WALKER ASTONISHES THE CITIZENS OF GALENA, ILL.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 165, 20 July 1870, Page 2

A FEMALE SLEEP-WALKER ASTONISHES THE CITIZENS OF GALENA, ILL.

A veby. singular case of somnambulism recently occurred in the town of Q-alena, Illinois, where General Q-rant formerly resided.

A Miss —, a daughter of one of the first families of the place has, for several years past, been addicted to the habit of sleep-walk-ing. On Monday evening, April 8, persons who were passing along the streets of the town at the hour of half-past eleven p.m., saw a strange spectre mounted on the back of a dark bay horse, the animal moving along very slowly. The apparition was a "woman in white"— a young lady. Her eyes were wide open and seemed to be gazing into the distance at nothing. Her hair being over her shoulders and down her back. The horse moved slowly along without being guided by tho rider. The ghostly pageant moved through several of the streets of the city. Pinally, on coming to the corner of Washington and Maine-streets a small boy who happened to bs standing near by, was dreadfully frightened by the spectacle, whom he took to be a genuine ghost, and he therefore howled in the most pitiable manner. His screams awakened the young lady, who would have fallen from her horse, but for a young gentleman friend who happened to be passing, recognised her, and caught her in his arms.

She struggled, and the unaccountable part of the story is that the horse belonged to a livery stable near the young lady's residence, and, in the early part of the evening in question had been securely fastened with a halter. How he got loose, or how the young lady got to him without notice is something which has not ".bee^ and probably never will be, explained.