The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-03
IN HIS SLEEP
Rheumatic Student Walked Tween
ty-Ffve Miles to His Home.

ty-Five Miles to His Home.
Chicago Times-Herald.
Sound asleep, without conscious volition
and utterly unaware of his performance
until after 1t was over, Kenneth Hughes,
a student of the Lake Forest academy,
made his way at night from his room
at the academy to his country home near
Loon Lake, twenty-five miles distant.
Whether he rode or walked, by what
route he went, or what were his ad-
ventures along the way, he has not thu
falntest glimmer of knowledge. accord
ing to his story. The trip Is all the more
wonderful because the young man had
been suffering for weeks with inf1amma-
tory rheumatism. He had expressed
to his parents a desire to visit his home,
but deferred the trip because he thought
it would be too painful.
The most the SleepWalker knows is
that he went to bed as usual in Lake
Forest and was awakened the next
morning in his fathers barn. twenty
five miles distant. The duration of his
somnolent state was from shortly after
o'clock In the evening until o'clock
IN the morning. It was at the latter
hour that the boys father, who is a
farmer, went to his barn to feed his
stock and found the young man propped
up in the family buggy. still sound
asleep Young Hughes had taken the
PANS to wrap a number of robes about
MIN. Thls instinct of -self-protection.
Whlch manifested itself while he was
dreainily unconscious, probably saved
him from serious results from exposure
Inc elder Hughes, supposing his son
was In Lake Forest, was surprised to
md him where he was and his slirnrise
grew INTO amazement when the youth
protested that he knew nothing what.
ever OF the hours that interviewed be-
tween his retirement and his awakening
in the barn.
he opened his eyes in establishment and
tried to recall some incident of the night.
but 1t was all a perfect blank to him,
lie counted the money In his pocket and
found that he had Is cents less than ha
had the night before. He decided there
upon that he must have ridden on an
electric car from Lake Forest to Wau-
Kegan. He has no recollection however.
OF boarding the car, paying his fare or
OF ahght1ng at the end of the line. The
soreness of his muscles seemed to con-
hrm the supposition that he had walked
the twenty miles from Waukegan to the
farm.
The details can only be guessed at. but
1t is certain that the nocturnal traveller
arose from his bed. clothed himself for a
colo trip and reached the destination for
which he set out. There was not n.
scratch on him, showing that the sense
of self-preservation did not Lapse at anv
stage Of his experience.
F'rof. Conrad Hlbbeler, of Lake Forest
academy, is much puzzled bv the case
and does not attempt to account for the
strange trip. He thinks Hughes left his
room about 1 o'clock in the morning
from the fact that the Northwestern
railway night agent stated the boy came
into the depot and asked when he could
get a train or an electric car to Evans
ton. He was told that no more cars
were running south and that he could
| not remain in the station. The agent
Gid not notice anything peculiar in
Hughes' actions, and cannot say whether
he was asleep.
Hughes says he remembers absolutely
nothing about his conversation with the
agent. Nobody else, SO far as known.
saw Hughes until his father>4ound him
| in the buggy.
DR.. Haven, the boys physician. states
that his patient had no fever and that
| his condition was normal except for the
| rheumatism.