SLEEP WALKER’S DEATH
RESULT OF SEVERED ARTERY. GISBORNE. April 5. An unusual accident befell a single man, Trevor Gerard, aged 25, employed on a road contract at Te Wera. near Matawai. Mr Gerard died in the Cook Hospital this morning as a result of a severed artery caused by an injury received when walking in his sleep. The occupants of the house were awakened in the early hours of yesterday morning on hearing a disturbance and the sound of crashing glass. There was a big hole in a window, and Mr Gerard was found at the front door, apparently still walking in his sleep. He was bleeding profusely from a severe wound on the fleshy part of one arm, which he had apparently put through the glass window. He was taken to the Cook Hospital last evening. but died this morning.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1938, Page 7
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141SLEEP WALKER’S DEATH Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1938, Page 7
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