MAN JUMPS FROM A HOTEL WINDOW.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 150, 26 June 1902, Page 2

MAN JUMPS FROM A HOTEL WINDOW.

I A determined suicide oecurred\in ' Victoria-street last night, a Frenchman named Eugene Pitavy jumping from the upper window of the Victoria Hotel to the pavement below, and being so severely injured that lie died in a few minutes. Pitavy came from the Upper Thames goldiields a week ago, stopping at tiie Victoria Hotel. He complained of being ill a day or two ago, and as he refused his food Mr O'Connor, the proprietor of the hotel, took him to.- Dr. Williams, who has attended him since Monday. The doctor said that there was nothing wrong with the man, who continued to imagine that he was suffering from some complaint. He was talking to one of the boarders shortly before 9 o'clock last evening in one of the front sitting-rooms, and soon after the o£her occupant of the room left it a man ran into the hotel, and informed the landlord that a man had fallen out of a top window. Mr O'Connor went out and found Pitavy lying on the pavement in an unconscious condition. He was carried into the hotel, where he expired almost immediately. The distance he had fallen was about 16ft, and he apparently landed on his head. Dr. Williams was sent for, but could only pronounce life to be extinct, and the body was accordingly conveyed to the Morg-ue. Deceased was not addicted to drink.