THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: SEPTEMBER 13. 190?;
TI1RILLS OF SLEEP WALKERS
Hair 3Uiitg and Dangeroui Feati Ac
compliihed by Somnambulists.
MANY ODD TRAITS REVEALED
Effret At Dreams on th Artlnas
Victims nimealt Prahleaaa
Thoaant Oat la ! I'a
ronH'lom State.
Miss Sadie Pettlt, 19 years old. of Wash
ington, harrowed a street full of early
risers the other day by clamhorlna; to the
top of the house and over the eaves, creep
in alor;f the (table to the smallest eilae
and standing at that diw helaht, scream
Ins; at the top of her voice. The net In
stant she waa silting cling-In loosely on
the edgs and walling ptteously.
The crowd that collected in the street
helow during her honr'a perilous prom
enade became almost frenzied. Tlie police
tried to reach her, but found they would
have to work their way up as did ahe, on
a frail water pipe. As they puzzled over
their next move the deaf old woman with
whom' Sties Tettit lived suddenly leaned
out of the window and cried to h"r to
'wake up and come down off -that roof:"
The girl shuddered and ell the right
way-back on the roof, and was saved.
Miss Tettit Is a sleep walker and her
harrowing nocturnal adventure Is matched
by many In the annals of the sleep walkers,
matched by many so harrowing that were
there no further Inducement to Investigate
the mysteries of somnambulism ' the hap-
nin of the victims and the safety of
their fellow hous liolders would ' supply
ample warrant.
Trof. t arl Trcl of Rcrlin and Dr. Daniel
Hack Tuke of London are two wiseacres
who have studied a good deal and found
out much about sleep walking, and they
tell of a youth who fell Into somnambulism.
went Into the bedroom of a child and killed
It. He was sent to prison, when he had a
similar attack and tried to take the life of
another prisoner.
Pot to tinod I ae.
sometimes the scuiiniiinbulist puts his
peculiar habits to good uses. Dr. Tuke
knows of a girl who learned her lessons
riitrlnr siren. Her father died In debt, and
her mother urged her to profit to the ut
most by the teaching, 'which was difficult
to pay for. The girl and her'slstpr were
much Impressed and took their books up to
bed with them. In the morning the sleep,
walker found that she knew all her lessons,
This happened morning after morning and
pur-sled the whole family until one night
when her mother returned late from a visit
and In the moonlight descried the girl In
the bedroom window. The mother went
quietly upstairs and found her daughter
seated at the. window in her nightdress
only, sound asleep, but book In hand and
atudylng hard.4
A school teacher gave to his geometry
clasa the forty-seventh problem of Ku-lld.
taking nothing but the postulntcg and
axioms for granted. The only boy who suc
ceeded In the demonstration was found
knoellng on his bed at work In his sleep.
The teacher did not disturb him. but
asked the next morning whether he had
finished his proof. "Yea I have. I dreamed
H out and got out of bed as soon as I
could see and wrote It out at the window."
Many sleepwalkers testify that their
dreams Influence their nocturnal adven
tures. One girl dreamed about a shipwreck
and awoke finding herself out of bed. She
had wrapped a large shawl around the
candlestick to do duty for shipwrecked
sailor ahe had succored. A physician often
associated his own sleepwalking with one
of three dreams fire In the hous- burg
lara. or Injury or death of some near re
latlve.
Effect of Ilreaaia.
Another physician somnambulist says:
'Dreams always seem to be associated
Willi my Bjeepwaikiit j, umltlt is the' al
most Invariable no -umpalMiient of the
dr'eam. I always put in practice the
thing dreamed.
"Once I circa me J I was drowning, and
I jumped out of bed. rushed Into the pas
sage and called for help over the atalra."
Ordinarily the sleepwalker forgets what
he. has been about during Ilia energetic
slumbers. One somnambulist woman un
dressed 'her' sister,' dressed ' her" hair,
plaited it, brought her shoes and stock
ings and silk ball dress from the cheat.
then suddenly waking ahe asked her slater
In surprise where she was going In such
a toilet.
Some investigators make a close con'
necilon between Insanity and somnambu
lism. Some yeara ago Dr. Hack Tuke
knew of a man who found not long after
his marriage that his wife had disappeared
from his side. A search waa Immediately
begun, and ended In discovering her body
in the sea not far from the house. The
theory ot aomnambultsm at' first waa' ad
vanced on what aeemed plausible grounds,
but eventually the decision waa for in
aanlty.
Lord Culpepper's brother, famous as i
sleep walker, was Indicted at the Old
Bailey. In 1S$ for shooting one of the
guards and his horse. The defense set up
was ' somnambulism, and ly calling In
nearly fifty witnesses to bear testimony to
the nobleman's marvelous exploits during
Bleep, it was successful.
There is a. familiar old story of a monk
who entered tbo prior's bedroom during
the night with his eyes fixed and with
large knife In his hand. With scowling
feature and determined mien be proceeded
atralcht to bia superior's bed, which fort
xuiately waa empty, since the prior had not
retired. The monk inflicted three ataba
which penetrated the bedclothes and a nit
" which scrvad the purpose of a mattress,
He then returned to his own room with
' features relaxed and smiling. The next day
when. Questioned by the prior, be con
fused that ho had dreamed that his mother
had. been murdered by the prior and th
her. spirit had apiivared to him crying for
vengeance. Transported with fury, h
aeiied a knife and tan directly to thu sup
posed assassin to slab him. Shortly after
lie returned to his bed he awoke, covered
with perspiration, to II nd It was a dream.
When the prior ahowed the monk th
knife holes In the bedclothes the aomnam
tiulistio brother threw himself on his knees
and implored for pardon. Ha waa pardoned
but he waa locked in hia cell every night
Fierce Delasioaa.
One Kraeer waa a steady, respectable
man. a. aaw carpenter in Olnscow. IS years
old, a&d belonging to a family In which
there waa Insanity. Fraser'a sleep alway
had been unsettled, disturbed by dieama
uig'-.traare and talking or walking. In the
morning he remembered nothing that had
occurred or of the great terror that aud
denly seised him during sleep. He started
out of bed under a vfM feeling that the
house waa on fire, that Its walls were
.bout to crush him. that hia child wa
faling down a pit. or most frequently of
all tbat a wild beasi had got luto ll
room and waa about to attack him. "Roar,
Ing inarticulately," reports hia physician
Dr. Yellowleea, "and in an agony of ao
puhension. he tears hia wife and child
out of toed to save them from death. Or
he fiercely chases the wild beast through
the room, throwing th furniture about to
reach t, and striking-at it with whatever
- Ue can un as a weapon; or he suddenly
seises his companion by the throat under
the Idea that be Is struggling with a wild
dog, horse, wolf or other animal, or often
some creature ot the Imagination more
terrible by far." He teok up rhaira to
throw at the beast and attacked father,
half-sister, wlfo and child, always under
the delusion that he was In mortal combat
with the beast.
One night he dreamed he saw a large
white beast fly up through the floor and
pass toward the back or me rjen wnerc
the child lay; lie grasped at the beast,
trying to catch It; succeeded In seising
it, and springing out of bed he dashed it
on the wall or floor to destroy tt. ine
child was killed and the cries of the wife
brought Fraser to himself and to a most
distressful appreciation of what he had
done. The Jury acquitted him on the
ground of somnambulistic Irresponsibility,
but his physicians wished him to be treated
temporarily at an Insane asylum. "He, on
the contrary, who only thlnka of crimes,
deceit and vengeance," says Fodere, "dis
plays during sleep recesses of his depraved
Inclination which external clrcumstanrea
had restrained when awake. If such a
man, then, commits a crime and he la a
suHpiclous character, one Is justified. It
seems to me. in considering this crime as
a natural consequence of the Immoral
character of his ideas; and one should
judge this action as all the more free In
that It has been committed without any
constraint or particular Influence. Far
from conalderlng these acta as insane. T
regard them as the most voluntary that
can be witnessed In human nature."
A atate of Hypnosis.
Men, wise men, consider that sleep Walk
Ing is nearly related to a state of hyp
nosis and they call it spontaneous som
nambulism as distinguished from artificial
somnambulism, hypnotism. Some persons
are subject to both states and are prac
tically the same under both conditions,
save that In aleep walking they are less
amenable to directions.
One ruch woman when ready to walk
In her sleep would sit up In bed, stare
vacantly around her, answer questions.
and, as when hypnotised, declare she did
not recognise even the most familiar faces.
She would suddenly fall back in her bed
striking her head severely against the
headboard. "She would walk about for
hours, go to the pantry for the tea things
take round the eggs, etc., and place them
on the patient's lockers, as she waa in the
habit of doing when aKslsting the nurses,"
said her physician. "She was difficult to
awaken from this condition. The Applica
tion of cold water was utterly useless.
On one occasion I threw a large basin
ful of cold water on her without causing
the least sign of waking, not even a shud
der. Blowing on her twice or thrice suf
ficed to rouse her. She came to Just as
anyone would in waking from sleep. Xhi
one occasion I seated her In her sleep at
a table, roused her, carried on a short
conversation with her and got her to write
her name, then within a minute hypnotized
er, and aroused her again. When awak
was scarcely dry." Chicago Tribune.
BIG BUNCH OF VETERANS LEFT
One Oraraaiaatloa la the Civil War
Mas Two Hundred aad Tblrty
even Members Still l.lrlna;.
I have just received, snld a civil wa
eteran, " a bid to the thirty-ninth an
nual reunion of my regiment, this bid
always coming along at about this time of
year, the reunions being held. In one yo.tr
nd another, in various towns of the New
England state in which the regiment wa
raised. Our regiment had men from pretty
much all over the state.
"But what gets me is a printed list
companylng the invitation giving the
names and addresses ot the mombers of
the old regiment still living, these number
Ing now, forty-three years after the close
of the war, 237, which seems to me a num
ber surprisingly large.
'Our regiment was mustered into service
In September, ISfll, and mustered out '
July, 1865; It served four yeara lacking
little less than two months. The regimen
left Its stata exactly full, with 1,040 men
n the course of Its servlco it had killed
in action 107 men, wounded 43S, died
wounds or in prison 100 and it lost men
who died of disease or who were discharged
by reason of disability.
Aa its ranks were depleted they were
filled with recruits from home and alto
gether It bad on Its rolls 1,997 men; and of
that 2,000 men there are now, forty-three
years after the close ot the war, 237 men
atlll surviving.
"It seems a surprising number, because
If you stop to consider you will see that
the youngsters of the regiment the boys
of, suy, 16 are now men 63 years old. The
men who were 26 in '61, young men then,
sure enough, must now be 73. To be sure,
men who came out later would be younger.
For instance, the boy of 16 who enlisted
in '64 would now be only 60; but there are
still living a goodly, bunch of the men-who
enlisted in '61, and many' of them still
hardy, vigorous, able men.
"And how do you account for that? I
should say by the character and -quality
ot the men of which our regiment waa
composed.
'Of course, every man that served ia
thee army is proud of his old regiment
and thinks It was the finest ever, and no
doubt they all have reason for their pride;
but ours was certainly a good regiment.
It wai rained In August and September,
'61, when the three months' campaign was
over and when the north had settled down
seriously to the prosecution ot the war. It
waa enlisted for three years, unless sooner
discharged, and it ia stating it temperately
to aay that Hs ranks were filled with men
of aerloua purpose, who knew what they
were about, and who enlisted from a sense
ot duty.
"And what a fine lot of men they were!
Coming from all the walka of life, charac
teristic men of their native state, a whole
regiment of men of intelligence, quick to
learn a soldier's duty, understanding fully
the necessity for discipline and always
obeying orders; a regiment that soon cime
to have the carriage of veterans; a regt
ment that stayed where it was put, and
went where it was sent; a regiment whose
officers and men always regarded it with
pride, and which was alwaya likewise re
garded by its brigade and division and
corps commanders. A good old regiment.
"And now after four years of aervlce
and forty-three years after the close of
the war there are still 17 of the old boys
left. It is splendid to think of.
"Many of the men who were older when
they enlisted, men of 30 or 40 then, have
gone, and there are no really young men
amoug the survivors, and in the nature of
things their ranks must grow thinner and
thinner, but among them there are still
hardy men, good for many years yet. And
of the old regiment there still survive 37
men. A fine lot!
"liloi y to I lie oid iraliuciil! I s&tuta the
old regiment!" Washington Post.
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