SHOCK TO SOMNAMBULIST
FIRED AT AS A BURGLAR A somnahulist living at Villeron, France, has received a very painful object lesson on the dangers of sleepwalking. Eugene Blonel, who lived next dour to ft cflfe, left his bedl &nd jumped out of his bedroom window during the night while sleeping, and even tbe shock of his fall failed to waken him for he went ori to climb a wall leading into the cafe. The cafe proprietor, hearing an unusual noised and seeing a shadowy form climbing hie wall, opened nre in the belief that ft burgjar.-was trying ! to enter his premises. Blonel was hit in the head and leg, hut even his wounds failed to rouse him immediately, and it was only some hours later that he awoke to find himself lying on the threshold of his home seriously wounded, but quite unconscious of tho manner in. which he had come by his injuries, for the cafe-keeper, after firing on the intruder. had returned to his bod confident that lie had scared away anyone who had designs on his hoiia**
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12619, 2 December 1926, Page 11
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180SHOCK TO SOMNAMBULIST New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12619, 2 December 1926, Page 11
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