Show Sleeping Potion Victim Is Walked Jostled Jerked From Deaths Death's Grasp B By United Press Prea l NEWARK N. N J. J Jt April 28 An 28 An al all allright night right walk through hospital corridors corridor and an all da day jostling in a wheelchair wheel whee chair have saved the life lIle of ot Howard Howar Edwards despite his protest for sleep which would have meant death Edwards a salesman took an overdose overdose overdose over over- dose of a sleeping potion Tuesday ni night ht and the only chance he had fo for life lite was to keep awake His mother had him removed to the Newark city hospital There Edwards believing he was to be put to bed ea eagerly erly fo followed followed fol- fol lowed two orderlies who led him down downa a halL The They walked him fifty steps then returned Edwards drowsily pro pro- tested I gotta sleep he mumbled The promenade continued and Edwards Edwards Ed Ed- wards roused sufficiently at t intervals to become indignant Hey leave me alone he cried Then his chin would drop to his chest as he muttered incoherently but always always always al al- ways he was shuffling along between the two sturdy orderlies The treatment was succeeding the patient improving but the orderlies were weakening Finally Edwards Edwards' escorts had to work In shifts shirts and as their tours ended they seemed more weary than their patient At l last st Edwards was pushed into a wheelchair not to rest but to be pummeled pummeled pummeled pum pum- meled and jostled Fifteen minutes of this then the promenade again The patients patient's temper heightened as his peril declined Finally Edwards' Edwards shouted protests ceased He could only mutter disapproval as the rocking of his wheelchair wheelchair wheelchair wheel wheel- chair was changed to a side to side jerk The grind went on Twenty-four Twenty hours without rest had sapped the last vestige of Edwards' Edwards strength but the activity had worn away the effect of ot the sleeping potion polion Put him to bed a doctor ordered Edwards turned unexpressive eyes on the physician He gave no other manifestation mani- mani of understanding As he j sank onto the pillow he sighed |