The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-02-21
PeRILous SLEEP WALKING.
Down an Incline Trestle in the Dark
neas in q Night Robe.

Down an Incline Trestle in the Dark
ness in Night Robe.
Early Yesterday morning the
South Side was the scene of re-
markable case of somnambulism.
Officer David Smith left the Twenty
eighth ward station at about two
o'clock and was proceeding home
ward along Carson street when, at
the Fifteenth-street corner, he was
startled by what at first appeared
to be an apparition from another
world. A nearer approach showed
that the figure was that of young
girl clad only in a dainty, frilled
night-gown and slippers. The wind
blew keenly, but the lightly clad
girl did not seem to regard the ele-
ments in the slightest degree. Of
ficer Smith advanced toward the
girl, and saw by her staring, sight
less eyes that she was asleep.
At this moment the sound of
quick steps was heard, and two men
came down the street at rapid
pace. Officer Smith recognized Max
Reizenstein and another resident of
the hill, whose name he did not
know. Reizenstein rushed wildly
at the girl, crying: Louise T! Lou
Use /! why don't you waken?" But
the somnambulist didn't appear to
hear his words.
The policeman then caught the
girl gently by the shoulders, pre-
venting her onward progress, and
requested the men to tell what they
knew about her. Reizenstein de-
clared that they had noticed the
girl, whose name, be said, was Lou
ise Liebendorfer, passing in her
nightgown along Virginia avenue
near the top of the Knoxville in
cline. Curiosity induced them to
follow her, when, to their horror,
they saw her step from the bluff
side to the tie of the incline and
begin to descend the perilous slope.
For a moment they feared that she
would lose her balance and fall
through the spaces to the jagged
rocks below; but seeing that she
held on her way downward, without
any misadventure, they decided to
run around by the steps and stop
her at the incline depot. On the
way they caught occasional Gimp
ses of the fragile form, clad in a
auttering night-robe, and stepping
from tie to tie with apparent ease.
In point of tact, the girl was too
quick for them, for she reached the
foot of the incline before they did,
and continued her way down Fif-
teenth to Carson street, where she
was met by Officer Smith.
Meanwhile Miss Liebendorfer's
eyes had opened, and the girl, who
was really pretty, looked shudder-
ingly around. AS soon as she re-
cognized her surroundings she
buried he face in Officer Smiths
capacious bosom and begged in
pitiful tones to be taken home. The
officer took off his overcoat and
wrapped it about the poor girls
shivering shoulders. Then he es-
corted her to the Twenty-eighth
ward station, where the matron sup
piled her with skirt, stockings and
warm cloak. Special Officer Thos.
Richards was then deputed to es-
cort Miss Liebendorfer to her home
on Virginia avenue.
The Liebendorfer house was WIS.,
tied yesterday and the aged Mrs.
Liebendorfer found at home. She
said: Eyes, it is all true about poor
Louise. l have heard from several
people about her wonderful walk
down the Knoxville incline last
night. She has done much stranger
things than that in her sleep. When
we were in Virginia she twice swan
the creek while fast asleep"
One of the incline officials was
last night interviewed with regard
to the length and danger of the in
cline descent. He said: The incline
is, at the very least, 1000 feet in
length. 1t appears to me most ex-
traordinary how any human being
could successfully descend it, espe-
cially at the hour mentioned, which
is the very darkest part of the night.
At some places the incline rises 81
feet above the rocks. One false step
would have precipitated the girl
upon the rocks beneath.-Pittsburg
Dispatch.
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