SLEEP-WAKING. 637 



" John Green. Strange as it may appear, although I have not 

 the power to arouse myself when in such a state of excessive 

 lethargy, yet I can retain the sound of persons' voices in my 

 mind, and, from the voice of the prisoner, I have not the least 

 doubt she is the party. 



' Alderman Thorp. How do you account for the lapse of time, 

 from being accosted by the prisoner up to the time you dis- 

 covered your loss ? 



" John Green. I am in the habit of walking for hours in my 

 sleep, and if an attempt had been made to forcibly take the 

 bundle from my arm, it would have aroused me ; my handker- 

 chief was cut, and thus the bundle was easily taken away. 



" Alderman Thorp. I never heard such a case before ; was the 

 bundle found ? 



" Acting Inspector M'Craw, division M., answered in the 

 affirmative, and added, that what the complainant had stated 

 about walking the streets and roads was true : he had made 

 inquiries, and found it to be the fact: it was well known to the 

 police. 



" Watt, Police constable 163., division M., deposed, that the 

 complainant came to the station-house between one and two 

 o'clock on Sunday morning, and made precisely the same state- 

 ment he had made before the Alderman. The Inspector thought 

 the tale savoured of the marvellous, and told witness to accom- 

 pany him (complainant) in search of the property ; and on ar- 

 riving at a house in Kent Street, Borough, he said he thought 

 the bundle was there. He knocked at the door, which was 

 opened, and by the door of a room wherein the prisoner was 

 sleeping, the property was found. The moment she spoke, he 

 said the prisoner was the person who stopped him in the Borough. 

 Witness took the prisoner to the station-house. 



" The prosecutor here pointed out the way in which the 

 bundle must have been taken away, and showed the Alderman 

 the rent handkerchief. 



" Mr. Edwards for the prisoner contended that no jury would 

 convict upon the evidence of a sleep-walker, in prosecution 

 against a street-walker. The prisoner laid no claim to the 

 bundle ; and as the complainant had sworn it was his property, 

 the police would give it up to him. 



" Alderman Thorp said it was so strange a case that he hardly 



