Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1914 — Mrs. Schaunerer Has the Habit of Sleep-Walking [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Mrs. Schaunerer Has the Habit of Sleep-Walking

ST. LOUIS, MO. —Mrs. Tillie Schaunerer of No. 115 Channing avenue is a confirmed somnambulist. Her nocturnal strolls have been interrupted by ■the police more than a dozen times in the last few months. The last occasion

was when she narrowly escaped walking into an automobile at Channing and Bell avenues at two o’clock in the morning. The chauffeur overturned his car to avoid a collision, .' Frank Cummings, chauffeur for Frank Warren, was driving his employer home and was about to cross Chamning avenue on Bell avenue when Mrs. Schaunerer, clad in a nightgown and carrying in her outstretched hand an empty revolver, started across Channing avenue in the path of the

machine. Cummings turned his car suddenly to the south to avoid striking the woman and hit the temporary tracks of the Hodiamont line with such force that the machine was thrown OVer on its side. Warren and Cummings both were hurled Into the street, but escaped with bruises. Mrs. Schaunerer, still asleep and unconscious of the accident she had caused, was turned over to a patrolman, who disarmed her, awakened her and took her home. A few weeks ago Mrs. Schaunerer walked in her sleep ten blocks from her home. On that occasion her relatives told the policeman who accompanied her homexthat they believed the only way they could stop her from leaving home In hekJsleep was to put extra locks on her bedroom door. She had been picked up in various parts of the Dayton street district on numerous previous occasions while walking about in her sleep. <•< -