The Savannah morning news., 1901-02-03
A sOMNAMBULIsT's FEAT.
walked Twenty-Five Miles without
AVval1 ening.

From the Chicago Times Herald.
Sound asleep, without conscious volition
and utterly unaware of his performance,
until after it was over, Kenneth Hughes.
student of the Lake Forest Academy,
made his way at night from his room at
the academy to his country home near
Loon Lake, % miles distant.
Whether he rode or walked, by what
route he went, or what were his adyen-
lures along the way he has not the faint
est gIimmer of knowledge, according to
his story. The trip is all the more Won
derful because the young man had been
suffering for weeks with infammatory
rheumatism. He had expressed to his pa
rents a desire to visit his home, but de-
fsrred the trip because he thought 1t
would be too painful.
The most the sieep-walker knows is
that he went to bed as usual in Lake
Forest and was awakened the next morn
ing in his father barn, % miles distant
The duration of his somnolent state was
from shortly after O'Clock in the even
ng until o clock in the moraing. 1t
was at the latter hour that the boys
father, who is 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 tall
en- the pains to wrap number of robes
about him. This instinct of self-protec-
ton, which manifested itself while he
was dreamily unconscious probably saved
him from serious results from exposure.
The elder Hughes, supposing his son
was in Lake Forest, was surprised to find
him where he was, and his surprise grew
into amazement when the youth protest
ed that he knew nothing whatever of the
hours that interviewed between his retire.
ment and his awakening in the barn.
He opened his eyes II establishment and
tried to recall some incident Of the night,
but IL was all a perfect blank TO him. He
counted the money in his pocket and
found that he had Is cents less than ne
had the night before. He decided there
upon that he must have ridden on an elec-
tric car from Lake Forest to Waukegan.
He has no recollection. however of board
ing the car, paying his fare, or of aligat-
ing at the end of the line. The soreness
of his muscles seemed to confirm the sup
position that he had walked the twenty
miles from Waukegan to the farm.
The details can only be guessed at, but
II Is certain that the nocturnal Traveller
arose from his bed, clothed himself for a
cold trip and reached the destination for
which he set out. There was not a
scratch on him, showing that the sense
OF self-preservation did not lapse at any
stage ot his experience.
prof. Conrad Hibbeler of Lake Forest
Academy is much puzzled by the case and
does not attempt to account for the
strange trip. He thinks Hughes left MS
room about ! O'Clock in the morning from
the faer that the Northwestern Railway
night agent stated the boy came into the
depot and asked when he could get train
or an electric car TO Evanston. He was
told that no more cars were rum ng
south and that he could not remain In the
station. The agent did not notice any
thing peculiar IN Hughes actions, and
cannot gay whether he was asleep
Hughes says he remembers absolutely
nothing about this conversation with the
agent, Nobody else. so far as known.
cav Buehcs until his father found him In
Ire buggy.
DIR. Haven, the boys physician, states
that hig uatient had no fever ana that his
condition was normal, except for the rheu-
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