WALKED IN HIS SLEEP.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 965, 11 March 1911, Page 3

WALKED IN HIS SLEEP.

THROUGH A BEDROOM WINDOW. Montague Clark, a young man who has been lodging for the past lew days at the Carriers’ Arms Boardinghouse in Dee Street, Invercargill, met with a curious accident the other morning, and narrowly escaped serious injury, says the Southland Times. He had been dreaming, and states that he had a feeling that he was locked in his bedroom. It appears that he has a tendency to somnambulism. What happened on this occasion must, however, have been his most sensational experience. The occupied was on the upper floor of the boardinghouse, looking out at the back over the roof of the dining-room, which is on the ground floor. The Carriers’ Arms building is twostoreyed in front and single-storeyed at the back. Clark rose in his sleep, and, still clad in his night apparel walked through the closed window of his bedroom, cutting himself severely. The trail of blood which he left behind him showed (on inspection in the morning) that he had walked along the iron roof ot the diningroom to the southern edge and had then retracted his steps and gone on past his bedroom window to the northern edge ol the roof. Three or four feet below the roof at this spot there was a glass ceiling to a concrete passage way on the ground floor. Clark walked over the edge of the root, and tell crashing through the glass ceiling on to the concrete floor, filteeu feet of a drop. A fellow-boarder who was sleeping in a room on the ground floor was awakened by the crash, and, hearing groans, went out to investigate. He found the somnambulist, bleeding copiously, and in the act of opening the door from the covered-in passageway into the main passage ol the hotel. Dr Stewart was sent for, and was soon in attendance. Fie found that Clark had sustained sevcu scalp wounds and several minor cuts on his kgs and body. Having dressed the injuries (some of which required stitching) the doctor ordered the removal of the patient to the hospital.