SUICIDE IN SLEEP.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 94, 28 April 1913, Page 3

SUICIDE IN SLEEP.

The curious suggestion that a young man committed suicide while sleep-walking was made at an inquest at Doncaster on a youth of 18, named Thurstle, who was found dead hanging from a bed rail.

Throstle was a fine lad, standing 6ft 2in in height. He was in the hfestof health, and had no trouble, hut he was in the habit of walking j in his sleep. His mother declared t

uUou ■or JiOtiiLiij tiiiii. iitiLi no Liouuit-j hut he was in the habit of walking in his sleep. His mother declared that he was too fond of his life to take it while in his right mind. He had committed the act, she averred, while in a “sleeping delirium.” On one occasion, tho mother added, ho had carried tho washstand downstairs without being conscious of what ho was doing. Dr Edge said ho had never known a case of suicide during sleep, hut 'he had read of such instances. They were possible, hut of very infrequent and uncommon occurrence. He did not think there was any limit to what a somnamuhlist might do. The jury found a verdict of suicide, there being no evidence to show the state of the deceased’s mind at the time.