SOMNAMBULISM.
An Eight-Year Old
Boy Falls Out of a Second-Story Window – Wonderful Escape.
At the early hour
of one o’clock yesterday morning an accident, though not a serious one,
occurred at the residence of Dr. L. Q. Naghel, on Bank street, between Main and
Market. It seems that his little son
George, aged eight years, got up out of bed, walked to the window, climbed up
on the sill and fell to the ground below, a distance of fifteen feet, striking
the hard pavement with his chin and face, breaking out several of his front
teeth, bruising his face in a terrible manner, and receiving other bruises
about the body and limbs, but fortunately not breaking any bones. Miraculous as it may appear, the fall did not
even produce unconsciousness, but on the contrary he immediately rose and went
to the side door, and knocked for admittance.
Mrs. Naghel heard the rap and the cries of the boy and let him in, and
upon making an examination of the pavement under the window found the point of
the boy’s tooth and a few drops of blood sprinkled on the spot. The little fellow has been confined to his
bed ever since, but is doing as well as could be expected.
The boy says that the first thing he
knew was when he struck the pavement.
Then he was well aware that he had fallen out of the window, but has no
recollection of how it occurred. The
family never knew him to get up out of bed while asleep before, therefore, are
at a loss to account for this sudden case of somnambulism. It was truly a wonderful escape, to say the
least.
- New Albany Daily
Ledger 08 June 1870, p. 2 col. 3
