American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-05-07
End Of a Remarkable Sleep.

| A srECIAu. dispatch from Allentown, Pa.
statcs that tho Hungarian sleeper, who has
| been in a trance at the Lehish County Aims
house for seyenty-four days, jumped from a
| window of that institution to-day, and was
seriously, If not fatally, injured. Friday aft
ernoon he opened his eyes, and it was noticed
| that they had scared expression, which
| seemed to suggest mental agony, and his
| whole look was that of a man who was under
constant fear and dread They brought
| him some WING and beef tea, which he swal-
| lowed as he had the water Solids he could
not partake of, because he was still unable to
| masticate.
| "Tm going to see IL we can't get him to
talk" said the Superintendent. Bring in
the Hungarian" he said to the steward.
| The Hungarian was a patient from Allen
town, who was staying there for treatment.
| He was brought in, Il middle aged, stout fell
| low, with n bronzed face and merry blue
| eye. The moment he entered, Gyumber, the
sleeper, who seemed remarkably quick in
| comprehension, fixed his eyes on him, and,
| without any change of feature or expression,
continued to look ut him with a slow. bovine
gaze. The newcomer approached the head Of
his bed and laid his hand on Gyumber's fore
head. The latter WINGED slightly and there
was a slight concentrating of attention on the
| act, as was evidenced by his eyes, which re-
manned still and motionless. though ex-
pecting something.
Inc stranger HrSC addressed MIN IN Hun
garian. Cylinders lips never moved and his
expression never changed. For two or three
minutes the stranger tried to get him to say
something by talking to him in the Hungarian
tongue. 1t was all in vain. He then tried
Slavonic but with no better result. and lastly
he talked to him in German, but Gyumber
took no more notice of him than IL he had
been addressing a stone wall. The expert
ment was failure.
DIR. Erdman. the Superintendent, now gave
orders for every body to leave the room except
the attendant, in order that the man might get
some rest. Gyumber continued awake all the
afternoon and until two O'Clock Saturday
morning, when he fell asleep. At seven
o'clock Gyumber was, or appeared to be,
sound asleep; had been sleeping right along,
according to the attendant, since two O'Clock.
This attendant, who has watched by him all
along, seeing him asleep, and, thinking he
would not wake up for seme time, left the
room a moment, closing the door after him.
There were no other patients in the place, all
having been removed on Friday after the man
had opened his eyes. In about ten minutes
the attendant returned. To his surprise the
door was locked, and he was unable to get In.
While he was working at the knob and won
dering he heaId a great commotion on the out
side. Rushing into the next ward and hooking
out of the window, he saw sight which made
him trembie in every joint. Gyumbcr had
to the ground below, a distance of Twenty-Five
feet, and there he lay for a moment, all in a
heap, clad only in his underclothing. He
picked himself up ana staggered about four
yards against the high board fence, when he
sat down. apparently exhausted, with head
bent forward on his breast. Blood was flowing
from one foot, where he had cut 1t on the
gravel. while on the left side OF the forehead
there was a slight abrasion where 1t had struck
the ground. He had alightcd on his feet and
afterwafd fallen headlpng on the earth. When
the attendants took hold of BIN he was Mt first
disposed to walk, and did walk several PAGES,
when they stopped him, not knowing how
badly he might be hurt. They carried him
back to his room. Now for the first time
in over seventy days he began to make
sound, On the way upstairs he
groaned audibly, and kept grouping
until they got him on his bed. After they had
laid him down he gave another proof of the
presence of his faculties. The matron of tho
aims house, who speaks Hungarian. came up
to his bed, and in the effort to discover where
he was hurt placed her hand against his side,
and asked him in the Hungarian tongue If it
hurt there. Gyumber nodded. This was tho
first indication given yet that he had his hear
ing alb ut him. An examination of his body
failed to discover what the extent of his inju-
RIGS were, or where he had been injured most.
1t was believed several of his ribs were broken.
After getting to bed he ceased grooming;
but from his expression seemed to be suffer-
ing great pain. In the afternoon. about six
hours after his leap. the Superintendent took
him by the hand for the purpose of
discovering whether he could walk. This
question was very quickly settled. No
sooner did Gyumber's feet touch the floor
than his limbs and whole frame shook like an
aspen leaf, and his jaws contracted as If in
great pain. He was instantly put back to bed
again, from which it is feared he will not rise |
for many weeks. DIR. Erdman had boon sent |
for, and was expected this evening. The case |
IS as much a puzzle as ever 1t is now believed |
by some that the man has lost the power Of |
speech. frequent movements of the lips, as |
If attempting to say something, seem to give |
an air of probability to this. DIR. Erdman,
however, still holds to the view that the man
will ultimately recover. There is no doubt
but his intent when he jumped out of the win
dow was suicide, and there can be no doubt
that he has regained his faculties to a consid-
cradle extent. The most intense interest pre-
walls in this case, and letters from Chicago
and other Western cities have been received
It the alms-house inquiring about the great
sleeper.