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Sleepwalking crimes blamed on split personality traits
The article recounts sleepwalking as a dissociated persona rather than true slumber. It cites Davenport case of Merle Beall fearing murder, notes army psychiatrists and famous figures like Ledru and Twain as sleepwalkers, and mentions legal outcomes where verdicts hinged on sleepwalking defenses.
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Merle W. Beall
Davenport
Iowa
Beall
Béall
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dr. Jekyll
Mr. Hyde
Stevenson
Samuel A. Sandler
Mental Trygiene
Stennett
Ivan the Terrible
Russias
Mark Twain
Kathleen Carpenter
Hampshire
England
Mount, Vernon
Alfred Morrison
Husb
Robert Ledru
Sea Canal
Fay
Ledru