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Show HEROIC RESCUE OF SLEEPWALKER TOLO Woman AVho Walks Narrow Ledge Far Above Pavement Saved in Nick of Time. NEW YORK, July JO. Tt required the efforts of the fire department and a polico detachment fo sa.vo Miss Catherine Cath-erine Soulier, a sleep-walker, from dcnl.li at her home in i'onkers. Miss Soulier, who had been afflicted with somnambulism for several d.-'s, arose from her bed, and with her eyes closed walked out of a window onto a narrow nar-row ledge Ihreo stories above a well-lightod well-lightod street. Passorsby saw her and called the polico. An officer ran upstairs up-stairs and climbed out of the window. Miss Soulier had reachod the end of the ledge when tho policeman grabbed her arm. She awakened suddenly, and when she looked down into the street she became so terrorized that, she fainl-o.l. fainl-o.l. In falling, her body wont over the ledge, but the officer hold onto her arm. Other policemen came to his assistance, as-sistance, but they could not lift her back, and the fire department was called out. An extension ladder was put up to the ledge and two firemen carried the 3'oung woman down. |