Show NOT SLEPT SINGE LIGHTNING STRUCK NEW JERSEY POLICE CHIEF CLAIMS HE HAS NOT SLUM IN TWENTY YEARS hackettstown N J alonzo wire 0 this place 12 years head of the police department says that for the last 20 years he has not closed his eyes in sleep he came near it he says sev eral times recently when he found himself getting drowsy in front of a hot fire but when he would attempt to take advantage of it and he down to compose himself tor the long ought nap sleep would flit away and he would pass the night as he passed 0 o many others in wide eyed wakeful ness he does not go to bed now but reclines on a couch in the front room of his home where in the darkness he allows his thoughts to wander and confuse themselves they will in the nearest semblance to sleep of which he Is capable neither wire nor the physicians who have studied his case are able to as sign a baue for the condition nor can they explain why it is that be has retained a state of robust health for all these years of insomnia HP has even done hard manual work in the open air at frequent intervals ditl out being able to woo the coy goddess of sleep the only result at all noticeable from ats long continued wakefulness has been a loss of weight in the past score of years amounting to between 75 and 80 pounds he used to weigh nearly pounds and now he tips the scale at barely wire says he believes that a stroke of lightning he received 30 years ago might have something to do with his though it happened years before he first suffered with insomnia the bolt made him deaf for a time he was driving a team of horses into a barn at the approach of a thunder storm the horses were knocked down and other men were stunned for some years while suffering from insomnia wire had a job as night watchman for the lackawanna rail icae but he never slept during the days mrs ware bears him out in that state nent he Is the alarm clock tor the fl nilly no matter what time one of them wants to get up in the morn ing father wire is there to rouse him he listens all through the night to the sank ng of the town clock wire sas be suffers from more or less restlessness at times but the strange malady has not impaired his health or strength to any degree his physician who say that wires age ga Is such now that he ought to have regular and ample rest has been treat ing him with a view to inducing drow siness but thus tar without result |