The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-04-13
HE WAS ASLEEP
Ut. Horner Mistaken
For Burglar,
Young Hawaiian SOmnambuIist Tn
tiers Anothers Room and is
Cut by the Occupant,


plantation on Hawaii, rs lying az the
home OF his cousin, NJ. s. Hamilton, ln
Oakland. California, painfully wound
ed. While In q somnambulis,iC trance
in a San Francisco boarding house on
the night OF April i, he crawled
through another dodgers window ana
was stabbed several times before he
awoke and disclosed his identity. The
Call OF April gives the details OF the
unfortunate affair as follows.
j. Louis Horner, clerk in the Office
OF Attorneys Foote a. herman, Is a
somnambulist on small scale, and 1t
led him into serious scrape early
yesterday morning. Horner resides az
$40 Bush street, and William Il. Toll
yer, a clerk in the Coast and Geodetic
Survey office, occupies the adjoining
room. The two men were strangers to
each other.
About o'clock yesterday morning
Tower was awakened from sound
sleep by the efforts of some one try
ing to force open the window of his
room. He was considerably startled,
as his room is on the second story, and
Immediately jumped to the conclusion
that burglar was at work. lie crop
ed for something with which to defend
himself and picked up his pocketknife,
which was on a table near the bed. He
opened the large blade and Jumped
out OF bed. The intruder had by this
time forced the window open and was
crawling through. TOliver rushed up
on him and made slash at him with
the knife, cutting him on the left tenn
pie. The man threw his left arm up
to protect his face and Toliver slashed
the arm and the blade swept down
and cut the mans lip. The man then
yelled out: For Gods sake, don't
cut me again; Pm the fellow that lives
in the next room"
The intruder was Horner attired in
his underclothes, and Toliver dragged
him inside. Not a word was said. Toll
liver supported Horner to his room, but
found the door locked, the key being
on the inside. Just then Horner Faint
ed and Toliver dressed himself hur-
riedly and ran out of the house in
search of a physician. AS he was
dashing down to Suffer street he was
accosted by Policeman Mulcahey, who
asked him where he was going.
II am running for q doctor, as have
cut man in my ROOM" replied Toll
yer.
Mulcahey returned with him to the|
house, and after seeing Horner rang in
for the ambulance. Horner was taken
to the Receiving Hospital, where DR..
Cherry stitched and dressed his
None is dangerous, but the
one on the left arm is about six inches
long.
Mulcshey took Toliver to the City
Prison, but no charge was booked
against him, and he was allowed to Sit
on the bench in front of the desk ser
geant. Captain Seymour detailed De-
tective Cody on the case and he report
ed the facts as related. The eXtraordi- |
nary feature of the affair was how Hor-
ner managed to crawl from his window
to Toliver's without falling to the
street. In front of both windows is a
ledge about two feet broad and be-
tween the two windows, distance OF
four or five feet, is a small ledge about
six inches broad, which Horner had to |
pass over before reaching To!iver's |
Horner in speaking of the at |
fair said:
II went home between IL and l
o'clock this morning and went imme- |
liately to bed. | always sleep In my |
/ remembered nothing
ill got cut on my left arm and yelled
out that / lived in the next room. /
suppose / must have got up in my
sleep. ! have done it previously, but
never got outside my room. | don't |
blame the man who cut me, as | would |
q
same circumstances"
Toliyer said he could think of moth |
ng else except that the man was all
burglar and he had to defend himself. |
Il was so excited" he said, that i'll
was lucky for Horner he cried out
when ] cut him the second time, as
would have continued to cut him and |
night have murdered him. | am sorry |
or 1t, but l am not to blame"
Captain Seymour reported the facts
o Chief Sullivan and the Chief in
Itructed him to take Toliver before
Judge Conlan, who was holding court |
or the disposal of the DRINKS" Toll
yer related his story to the Judge, who
lecided that no charge could be placed
Igainst him under the circumstances,
md allowed him to go after eXactlng q
promise that he would be in court at
loon today, for fear Horner's wounds
night take a serious turn.
In the afternoon Toliver called at
he Receiving Hospital to see Horner.
t was the first time they had met and
hey looked at each other curlously for
moment, then Horner held out his
and, which was instantly grasped by
oliver. Horner relieved Tolivers
mind by saying he did not blame him,
nd they chatted together for some
ime. In the afternoon Horner was
AIKEN from the hospital by NJ. S. Ham
ton, his cousin, to his home in Oak
and. Horner was to have appeared
efore the Civil Service Commission
RS today for examination.
Young Horner is a graduate OF Oahu
'ollege and has a wide circle OF ac-
here. He was brilliant
tudent and his teachers predicted for