ed in the evidence. It is said that once when a boy he
arose at night while asleep, dressed himself; took a pitcher and went
for milk to a neighboring farm, as was his custom. At another time he
worked in a lumber-yard in a rain-storm while asleep. Again, when about
twenty-one, he was seen in a mill-pond wading about attempting to save
his sister who he imagined was drowning. The worst phase of his
somnambulism was the impending fears and terrible visions to which he
was subjected. Sometimes he would imagine that the house was on fire
and the walls about to fall upon him, or that a wild beast was
attacking his wife and child; and he would fight, screaming
inarticulately all the while. He would chase the imaginary beast about
the room, and in fact had grasped one of his companions, apparently
believing he was in a struggle with a wild beast. He had often injured
himself in these struggles, and had often attacked his father, his
wife, sister, fellow-lodgers, and while confined in jail he attacked
one of his fellow-prisoners. His eyes would always be wide open and
staring; he was always able to avoid pieces of furniture which were in
his way, and he occasionally threw them at his visionary enemies. At
the time of the murder of his child, in a somnambulistic attack, he
imagined that he saw a wild beast rise up from the floor and fly at his
child, a babe of eighteen months. He sprang at the beast and dashed it
to the ground, and when awakened, to his horror and overwhelming grief
he found that he had killed his beloved baby. A similar record has
been reported of a student who attempted during the night to stab his
teacher; the man was disarmed and locked up in another portion of the
building; but he had not the slightest remembrance of the events of the
night.

Yellowlees speaks of homicide by a somnambulist. According to a
prominent New York paper, one of the most singular and at the same time
sad cases of somnambulism occurred a few years ago near Bakersville,
N.C. A young man there named Garland had been in the habit of walking
in his sleep since childhood. Like most other sleep-walkers when
unmolested, his ramblings had been without harm to himself or others.
Consequently his wife paid little attention to them. But finally he
began to stay away from the house longer than usual and always returned
soaking wet. His wife followed him one night. Leaving his home he
followed the highway until he came to a rough, narrow pig-t