From the May 12, 1894 Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

“John Hoffmeyer, 45 years old, walked out of the sixth story window of the Garfield lodging house, 48 New Bowery, this morning. He was killed. Hoffmeyer was a cook in a cheap restaurant in the Bowery. For a year he has occupied a room in the Garfield house for which he paid 15 cents a night. Since his childhood the man has been a sleepwalker. Many times he was found in the middle of the night wandering through the hallways of the lodging house, fast asleep. He often said that some day he would be killed in his nocturnal wanderings.”