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Show Crimes Confessed Daring Sleep. Criminologists say that the greatest terror that afflicts the criminal is sleep I An untold number of crimes have been confessed by their perpetrators during sleep. Many years ago a common lodging house was the scene of a sleeping criminal's crim-inal's confession. The room was occupied occu-pied by himself and one other, a young sailor. While the sailor was lying awake he suddenly heard a curious and ghastly laugh issue from his room companion's lips. The laugh was followed fol-lowed by a long and rambling description descrip-tion of a murder he had committed, horrible in its details. The sailor crept downstairs and informed the landlord of what had occurred. The latter at once summoned a policeman, who recognized the Bleeper as the man "wanted" for the crime In question. At the trial which followed he was found guilty and sentenced to death. In Prussia the husband of a certain attractive young woman had vanished In a mysterious manner from his home and all attempts to trace his where: abouts failed completely.. , Meantime a neighbor called Schmidt, who had been devoted to the young wife before her marriage, reappeared on the scene and paid her assiduous attentions. So successfully suc-cessfully did he press his suit that within a year of his rival's disappearance disappear-ance the woman consented to marry him, and they were united at th parish par-ish church. On the second night following the wedding the newly made bride lay awake, , unable to slumber. Presently there carhe a gurgling cry from the ioor,inr fnrm beside her. and a mo- ment later the man leaped from his bed and in a loud voice proclaimed that he had killed the missing husband and had buried the body in a neighboring neighbor-ing wood. The wife drank in the confession, and in the morning carried the story to the police bureau. The place named bv the sleeper was searched and, sure enough, the body of the vanished man discovered there. |