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Show A SOMNAMBULIST TalU From a Fourth Story Window aml I Hurt. COLi-Mni-s, (),i0 September SO.-Special. SO.-Special. - Oscar M. Williams, a brother of W. H. WUiiams pro iltor ot tho American house and steward of the Central Insane asylum, is lying at hi. trancis hospital stitTering from a compound fracture of the right thigh as the result of a frightful fall from a fourth-story room of the American house, sustained, as is supposed, during a lit of somnambulism. Young Williams, Will-iams, who is about 24 years old. came here about nine monlhs ago from Portsmouth, Ports-mouth, Ohio, and has been boarding at the American. Ho retired to his room about 3:30 o'clock and about 4 o'clock this morning was discovered by tlic hotel cook lying unconscious in the court at the rear of the hotel. He had two serious cuts about the head and the fracture of the leg referred to. When he recovered consciousness he was unable una-ble to give an account of how he came where he was found, and, as he was a was a victim of somnambulism durincr his boyhood, it is thought he walked out of the window while asleep. When found he had on bis street clothes, and it is thought he lay on the bed to rest before undressing, and fell asleep He fell forty feet to the roof of the kitchen, from which he bounded to the brick pavement tifteen feet below. How long ho had been lying there when found is not positively known, but it is thought ho fell about midnight, as about that hour some of tho guests of the hotel hear a noise which might have been caused by the fall, but gave it but little notice, as no sounds followed it. It was a miraculous escape from instant deal h. and whUo there aro no indications indica-tions that the man is injured internally, his condition is very serious, and it is feared his leg must be amputated |