FATAL FALL FROM A LADDER.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 71, 23 March 1906, Page 4

FATAL FALL FROM A LADDER.

, TRAMWAYS E]SctPLolcEfi^i_i^^ J ' While repairing a broken site the Newmarket Office last evening, a member of mechanical staff of the Au<^_a ;]_«. trie Tramways Co. -named" _lpmas ;i ':g_. Bert Boyd met with a .serious ..acaient" which has sinceBoyd and another man-named 'Sj_S__g were repairing the breakage. /anrf-the former had ascended _,- JadSeVpiy&Ji was Testing against the overhead wire, wlien^his.'mate, .jrbo ||| working below,-, heard a* ! ;'!&• She's got mc 1 "-vandv almost jiristaatlv Boyd, crashed on to the fraadjjstr&iiy heavily on his head. tion it is surmised ithat the7unfojh}4<' ate man touched a live balanced. He wis pi<_cednip-_tTpa<» jjr several by-standers" and;-carried; .bj«d. ing profusely, into the = ; shop d£ Fookes. chemist. Dr. DadJey .-avas.-sent for, and on his arrival Boyd'.was, ; takea in an Ashford -litter ''tram _h\ : Teed's pharmacy to the District Hospital, where it was ascertained 1 thai "the iall had resulted in' a iractufea--_k_lki»-it midnight last '"condition■": -was serious, and tins morning ft:w_s-a_cer-r' tamed that the 1 ialfhad-fiad'*.:-fatal > result. The deceased tvas a 'young man of 24 years of Sgel and is said'to have been He was unmarried, and "lived with Ms -father in Clyde-street: 'Ah; mqnesthas -been arranged to"€afceplace' tbnibirbw morning at the Hospital. ]'/'..' : .' ; *'-~* & ;i '■ '-'