Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-27
WALKED IN HER SLEEP
SomnambuIist Climbs Water
Spout to Roof.
AWAkENS AND SCREAMS
Rescued From Perilous Position by
Police.
SLIDES INTO SAvIOR'S ARMS
Miss Petit in Nightgown Has
Thrilling Night Adventure and
Was Thoroughly Scared.
SLIDES INTO sAvI0R's ARMS

l got UP in my sleep and walked over
to the window and with my hand broke
the glass
l then climbed out of the window onto
the roof of the porch.
From there 1 climbed up the rain spout
and then upon the roof. / woke up when
1 was up on top of the roof.
Then l got scared and l suppose l
| screamed. That attracted the neighbCrs.
1 went back to bed after the policemen
got me into the house
MISS SADIE PETIT.
Sound asleep. Miss Sadie Petit in the
gray hours of the morning. clad only in
her thin nightrobe, rose from her bed
In her rooms at 1924 P street northwest.
walked to the window and finding 1t
closed. with her clenched fist, broke out
twelve panes of glass, and though she cut
her hand severely did not then wake up.
Through the aperture thus made she
craWled out on the root of porch Then,
in her somnabulent spirit of adventure,
she climbed up tin rain spout.
| This brought her to the house roof. BY
gymnastic feat, foreign to Miss Petit $
accomplishments when in her wakeful
mind, she pulled herself up and on this
roof.
The house roof slants precipitously.. This
did not deter the young lady sleepwalker
from essaying a danger-fraught prom
enade along its top edge.
And then she woke up.
Miss Petit screamed. Neighbors woke
up. Then she screamed again. The
awakened neighbors came to the windows
to satisfy natural curiosity.
Neighbors Alarmed.
There the now unintermittent cries of
the imperiled Miss Petit revealed the
| cause of her alarm, without other expla-
nation. and the reason she was disturbing
the vicinit!
Neighbors called to her.
She called back: I've been walking in
my sleep. I'm going crazy
But her troubles were not yet ended.
She was yet to be rescued. 1t was evident
she had no purpose to return by the orig
inal route.
1t WAS first suggested that the fire de-
partment be called and somebody tele-
phonfd to the seventh precinct station.
Sergt. w. P. Hess and Private r. II.
Clark of the seventh precinct and Dr.
Reginald Munson of 31O1 street north
west arrived The sergeant decided to
exercise his own ingenuity in rescue and
| succeeded.
She Is Rescued.
With the assistance of DR. Munson, a
policeman then broke into the house anS
they went to a window on the west side
of the building. which fronts out on a
slanting roof of a porch.
While the physician and Policeman Clark
held on to Sergt. Hess leg he got out on
the roof and called for Miss Petit to
slide down to him. She sat down on the
slanting roof. She started moving at a
rapid pace The officer told her to turn
over face downward. This she did and
her speed was reduced. Just she
reached the edge of the roof the police
man seized her. With the aid of the two
men in the room she was carried safely
into the house.
Miss Petit is employed as companion
for Miss Mary Thomas. She sleeps at
the street house every night.
She was seen by Miss Emily and Henri
eta Smead of 312o P street. They called
to her and asked her what was the trou-
BILE. She replied that she had night
mare and was going crazy. They told
her to be still and they would get her.
When seen by a Star reporter at her
home on 3jth street this morning Miss
Petit said she felt no i'll effects from her
adventure, except for the cuts on her
hand. caused by breaking the glass in
the window.
She had not been feeling well for sew
eral days, she said. but had never before
walked In her Sleep Her version of the
affair she freely gave.