Sleep-walker Went To Girls’ Bedroom

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 368, 24 February 1937, Page 8

Sleep-walker Went To Girls’ Bedroom

JUDGE’S ADVICE AFTER ACQUITTAL Sleep-walking was successfully pleaded at Bristol, when Albert Victor Stone, aged 5, seaman, lodging in Dean street, Moorfields, was found not guilty of an offence against a girl living in the same house. Discharging him, Mr Justice Charles said: “I should be careful if 1 were you, dr you might wander about and do someone harm. “ You should get your brother or someone to sleep with you and stay awake all night if possible.” Mr N. J. Skelhorn (prosecuting) said that Stone, who slept on the ground floor, entered during the night a bedroom on the first floor occupied by two sisters. Evidence was given by Doris May* • Ford, aged 20, and by her mother, who said that on a previous occasion Stone had gone into the kitchen while sleepwalking. Constable Walsh said that Stone admitted going to the girls’ room, and added: “I only woke up when she shouted and then I came downstairs.’’ 14 If this were not a criminal charge,” the Judge commented, ‘‘one could make fun about it.”