ADELAIDE SLEEP-WALKER.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1920, Page 11

ADELAIDE SLEEP-WALKER.

IN NIGHTGOWN IN STREET. Sydney, .Tan. 28. An extraordinary story of sleepwalker comes from Adelaide. Just he-' fore daybreak last Sunday morning a constable on duty in Rnndle street, Adelaide, saw a ghostly figure moving slowly, a couple of hundred yards in front of him. He followed it, "at a safe distance for a while, but he moved up closer when it made no effort to attack, and presently recognised it case of somnambulism. It was a woman of about 55, cla.d only in her nightgown, and she was lightly and steadily walking westward. She was staring straight ahead, blankly and unseeingly. The constable hovered round, puzzled and uncertain what to do. He knew, sensible fellow, that it was a dangerous thing to jar a somnambulist suddenly from the strange condition of trance; vet the woman gave every indication of wi'lingness to walk all night. The constable walked beside her, but she took no notice, and they progressed thus for a hundred yards. Then the constable walked rapidly ahead, deliberately placed himself in the woman's path, and let her collide with him. £?he gasped and woke, hut displayed no excitement. The constable put. his cloak round her and took her to the police station. It was found that the woman had walked from St. Peter's, a full two miles away. The police sent a messenger for her-husband, and when that alarmed and worried man arrived he found the ladv comfortably asleep ih the "parlor" cell. She said that she had been to a picture show that night with her husband, and went to bed at the ordinary hour. From then, until the policeman awoke her in the street, her mind had been a comjplete blank.