The evening world., 1903-07-09
ONCE TOOK A STROLL IN
HIS NIGHTSHIRT, HE SAYS.
The Magistrate Has His Doubts,
! but Adiourns the Examina-
ton to Enable the Accused to
Bring Witnesses to Prove
Him a S%omnambuIist.

Suddenly pulled from under an old.
Fashioned square piano in the parlor c:
q strange fiat. Frank Maley. eighteen
years old. rubbed his eyes early to-day
n asked in a bewildered
"Where in thunder am II"
Don't you try that" admonished Pc,
liceman MCGUIRE, of the East Sixty
seventh street station. shaking the
young mar what are o giving
me?"
The fiat was that OF Frank Bartha. or
the first floor of No. 403 East Seventy.
second street. Bartha was awakened
early this morning by a noise in the par.
lor. and supposed 1t was his brother
coming home. The sounds ceased. how,
over, and as his brother usually say.
good night Bartha left his bed to inves.
tgate. AS he entered the parlor he saw
Q man crawling under the square piano
Bartha ran to the front door and call
ed for Policeman Mcguire. Together
they entered the parlor. The form under
che piano had not moved and the po-
iiceman hauled Maley from his retreat
Maley was in his shirt sleeves and
stocking feet. He was so surprised
when he was shaken to his senses that
he had to be told several times where
he was.
"Tve been walking in my sleep again.
he exclaimed. II live at No. 1851 First
avenue, but tonight 1 was sleeping with
q friend, Fred MARINER. at No. 401 East
6eventy-second street. He has a fur
nished room on the first floor. l thought
! was in bed there. We were out to-
gether last night. and l drank one milk
punch before going to bed. I only took
off my coat and shoes. / don't remem.
Der a thing of how I got into this fiat"
A coping extends from the windows of
Maxiner's room 20 those in Bartha's fiat,
and it is possible that Maley crept along
fhis. But the policeman was not much
impressed with the story of somnambu-
aism and arraigned Maley before Magis-
trate Pool in Yorkville Court to-day on
a charge of burglary.
II am a somnambulist," the prisoner
old the Court. IT have been troubled
with sleep walking for two years. Once
! walked two blocks in my night shirt.
and yoke up when l stubbed nv roe
on a paving block. 1 often walk around
tire house. 1 have a brother twelve
years old who is afflicted in the same
way This affair last night was a case
of sleep walking. I don't remember a
thing from the time I went to bed until
the policeman pulled me from under
that plano"
Magistrate Has Doubts.
"fhat story sounds incredible" said
Magistrate Pool, II always understood
sleep walkers walked In a bee line. How
could you have crawled along this com
ing and opened the window of this
mans fiat in your sleep without being
aw~akened?'
"As l todd you. Judge. I don't remem-
ber." said Maley.
The young man said that he was a
moulder and worked In Fulton's foun-
dry. at No. 81 FuIman street. BROOKLYN.
He declared that he could prove by his
relatives that he is a sleep-walker' and
by MaNincr. who Is a ~sign-painter, tina
he was spending the night with him,
Magistrate Pool told Maley he would
give him every opportunity to establish
such a defense and adjourned the on
animation until tomorrow, in the mean
time holding Maley in $1,000 bail for
examination.