Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1912 — WALKS NINE MILES IN SLEEP [ARTICLE]

WALKS NINE MILES IN SLEEP

Eleven-Year-Old Child Makes Long Trip Lightly Clad—Spend Night Searching for Her. Clinton, Mo. —Mary Ruth Smith, eleven-year-old daughter of Dir. and Mrs. L. L. Smith of Urich, in the north part of Henry county, walked a distance of nine miles while sound asleep. She retired at the ÜBual hour. The next morning her uncle, Walter Waugh, north of Maurine, found her on hiß front porch, clad only in her night gown and an old coat of her father’s. Her uncle asked her how she came there, but she only remembered having dreamed some. She made the trip barefooted and over muddy roads. It is very doubtful If she would have been able to have stood the trip if she had been awake. Alco she was not well acquainted with the road. Her parents missed her about 11 o’clock, and the family and the neighbors spent the* remainder of the night searching for her. Her parents say that she is none the worse off from her night’s trip.