Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1858 — Appalling Result of Somanmbulism. [ARTICLE]

Appalling Result of Somanmbulism.

Otte.of the-most awful results of sleepwalking of which we have heard for a long, time transpired at the Upper Ferry landing, St. Louis, during tlie night ol E: id.ry, the 2‘tth uIL In the early part of the et ening a farmer, named John Bray, from Indiana, v. ho was removing to some point an th ■ Missouri river, w'tli his wife, -ather-In-law and four.children, came in on the Ohio mid Mississippi Railroad Being in straitened circumstances, the family, ohtaiimd permi--siori to stop lor the night in a small re- mi <• i the ferry duck at the loot <fi i’ .rr itreet. Between t'wek- ' and one o’edock in the night Bray arose, m his .s/eryi. and 1 m'Fflig his youngest clii.ld, aged three yT-i*rs. in hi.-- arms, actually walked from th? riimn anil into th'' water. The piteous,, wa iliiig cries ot the child, and the I-ml mils o' the lather for help, soon drew a number of persons melancholy scene from adjacent places on the Levee. The frantic gr : ef of the lamily partook of the ineoherem- • ami wildness o( the maniac, am! is described to be ot th • most heart.-renditig description. Before ingenuity could resolve on any im'.'ins ot -rescuing the drowning objm'ls, both had sunk’, to be seen no more alive. (’ulleit, of Indiana, now an Indian agent in the North west, received not. Long since .'jjS'»o,ooo in specie, at St. L utis, with wftich to pay annuities. lie placed it on tb.e Ohio and Mississippi .R lilro id, together vx itli two guards. On arriving at the junction of tlie Illinois -Central Road, tlie agent, of tlie Aineric m Express dem and ■■! that, the specie should be subject to express cli irges, amounting to splfij. The Major resisted, and tl'ie boxes am! guards arrived at Dunlcitli. Here a posse was collected, consisting of freight agents, express agents and Iheir employes, and the specie was In'lil on tlm cars tor the payment, of the §H3o. Finally the Major ordered his guards (who were vet in the ctif with tlie boxes) to throw them out. of the window on to the platform: lie then dre.v a revolver, and summoning tlie guards lie marched off his treasure io the (Uray Eagle., on which boat he m ide hi.i.way to St. Paul,- — Neio Albany ledger. “Is Mr. Brown a man of means!” asked a gentleman of old Mrs. Fizzleton. referring to one ol her neighbors. “'A ell, 1 reckon he ought to lit',” drawled out the oi l beldame, -‘lor he is the meanest mail ir town.”