Unconscious

50 years ago:Fred Fowble, the Westminster High School teacher found unconscious early Saturday on the Old Frederick Road near Hollofield, Howard County, told police he was assaulted by a young "hitchhiker." The assailant, who fled in his victim's automobile, struck Fowble on the head shortly after being picked up near the Patapsco River bridge. Fowble, thrown from the car, was found lying in the roadway by Andrew Huppler, a passing motorist, about 2 a.m. Huppler took the unconscious man to the Ellicott City Police Station.

Convicted murderer James C. McGee pleaded guilty yesterday in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court to having heroin in his cell at the Maryland House of Corrections Annex, where guards found him in drug-induced unconsciousness last summer."

A Westminster man found unconscious in his station wagon with the engine in gear at a left-turn lane on Route 140 was given a suspended one-year jail sentence yesterday in Carroll County Circuit Court.John L. Wilson, 35, of the 1200 block of Old Westminster Pike had pleaded not guilty to the charges of driving while intoxicated and driving without a license in July, but agreed not to contest the prosecutor's version of what occurred March 9.Tfc. Douglas W. Reitz of the Westminster state police barracks said in charging documents that he was unable to awaken Wilson, who sat in his locked Toyota at Green Mill Road and Route 140. The trooper had to enter through an unlocked passenger-side window to turn off the ignition and rouse Wilson.

Fourteen days after being freed on $25,000 bail in the alleged kidnapping and assault of his girlfriend, a Hampstead man was arrested yesterday on charges of beating her unconscious.Michael L. Hauck, 32, of the 1000 block of S. Main St., was ordered held without bond at the Carroll County Detention Center after he appeared at a bail review hearing yesterday before District Court Judge JoAnn Ellinghaus-Jones.Hauck's girlfriend, Penny L. Jones, 37, of the same Hampstead address, was treated at Carroll County General Hospital and released, a hospital spokeswoman said.

A woman who was found dead yesterday in the bedroom closet of a Hampstead home may have been the victim of a homicide, state police said.The woman, who police refused to name, was unclothed and partially hidden under a blanket in a home in the 4400 block of Utz Road. Police were called to the house after Baltimore fire officials received a tip.Two children were asleep in a bedroom and a man was lying unconscious in a bathtub when troopers arrived about 12: 30 a.m. The children, 2 and 11 months, were turned over to the county Department of Social Services.

OVER THE YEARS I have known any number of people who have reminded me of Laura in Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie," currently at Baltimore's Center stage.Williams' play takes its title from the sparkling collection of miniature glass animals that is Laura's most precious possession. In Laura's mind, the tiny crystal beasts represent all that is lacking in her dreary life -- beauty, vitality, freedom to explore the possibilities of love.In a deeper sense, the collection is also a metaphor for Laura's own mental and physical fragility, as well as that of her family.

A Jessup man was beaten unconscious Tuesday by two men who broke into his apartment, ransacked it and robbed him, county police said.Robert Trevor McLennan, 41, of Jessup Road suffered cuts and bruises in the assault but refused medical teatment.McLennan told police he was in his bedroom about 7 p.m. when he saw a light go out in his living room. McLennan went to the living room and was confronted by two men, one armed with a steel pipe.He asked the men what they were doing, and one of them hit him across the face.

A Deale man turned himself in Monday at the Southern District police station, where he was charged with sexually assaulting a 23-year-old woman.The woman told police she and the man were at a party in the 700 block of Frazier Ave. in Deale about 1 a.m. Monday and that she drank a lot of rum. The woman said she passed out and that someone took her to an upstairs bedroom, police said.The woman said she awoke to find an acquaintance having sex with her. She told the man to stop and he did, police said.

When you first hear those familiar words, you snap your head around as if there were someone else in the room."Take that out of your mouth. You don't know where it has been."Who said that? Did I say that?It is as if you were a ventriloquist's dummy. Or possessed by demons who have stolen your voice. You recognize the words, but not the person speaking them."You're going to put somebody's eye out with that thing."Nothing conscious precedes these words. They spill out of your mouth without a thought behind them.

Jockey James Thornton of Edgewood remained unconscious in a Fairfax, Va., hospital last night after suffering a massive head injury in a spill at the Charles Town, W.Va., racetrack Friday night.Thornton's former wife Rosalyn, whom he is engaged to remarry, said she and other family members told doctors not to continue with additional surgery last night after an immediate operation .. Friday.A hospital administrator said Thornton was in extremely critical condition."The first operation relieved some of the pressure on his brain," Mrs. Thornton said.