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...named George Brewer, yielded up no money. Irwin forced his way into the Brewer house, pistol in hand, crying, "Hello, Uncle-get over there and sit down!" Brewer and his fearful wife obeyed. But nothing happened-Irwin just sat down too. The girl wobbled to the davenport, and fell asleep. When she woke up the next morning all three were still sitting motionless in the same chairs. Irwin hustled her into the Brewer's Oldsmobile sedan and drove off. He pulled up at a rural cornfield, raped her again, taped one of his wrists to hers and slept...
...night, after long prayer, Ste. Cunegonde, wife of Henry II, emperor of Germany, fell asleep and was lifted into bed. Her reader fell asleep soon afterward and, dropping her candle, set fire to the palliasse and bedclothes. The empress and her reader were roused from sleep by the noise and heat of the fire, and making the Sign of the Cross, the fire instantly dropped out. Although the empress was lying on a bed blazing with fire, and the flames burnt fiercely all around her, yet her night clothes were not touched, nor did she suffer any injury whatever...
Bide a Wee. In Savannah, after a funeral-home attendant fled in terror from a snoring corpse, police discovered William Fleming asleep with three bottles of beer beside him, got his story: "I was just trying to find a peaceful place...
...himself had more exotic tastes. He married the daughter of an Indian chief. Inducted into the Seneca tribe, he was dubbed "Ounewaterika," meaning "boiling water, or one whose spirits are never asleep...
...twelve-year-old Richard, wakening in the dormitory of his Anglo-Catholic church school in the Tennessee hills, the day had begun with a soul-shaming failure. He had vowed to stay awake all night to share somehow Christ's agony, but before midnight he had fallen asleep. Now, as Father Whitman went from cot to cot waking the boys chosen for the next Good Friday watch, it was nearly 4 a.m., and Richard was suffused with the knowledge of his Lord's ordeal...