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Show SOMNAMBULISTIC STROLL NEARLY CAUSES DEATH BKRK ELISY. Cal.. June 11. A somnambulistic som-nambulistic stroll, during which he dived head first from a second-story window lo the ground, twenty-five fee" I. below, resulted today in the serious injury in-jury of Francis R. Steele, editor of the California Occident, a university publication, publi-cation, anil a member of the track sound. A wire fence on which he landed land-ed broke the fall, which would otherwise have proved' fatal in all probability. His injuries consist of a fractured ankle, an-kle, painful lacerations about the breast where he struck tho fence, and two missing miss-ing teeth. On recovering -consciousness. Steele I said that he dreamed he was diving into I he ocenn. |