FATAL FALL.
MAN VISITING THAMES. TIRE ESCAPE RAILING GIVES •WAY. HEAVY IMPACT WITH PAVEMENT. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) THAMES, this day. Mr. Edward Lcydon, aged 54, a visitor to Thames, who fell from a wooden fire escape on the Salutation Hotel early on Thursday evening and sustained serious head injuries and concussion, died in hospital this morning. He had been staying at the hotel for a few weeks with the intention of purchasing the lease. Mr. Lcydon went upstairs to get photographs from a bedroom. Finding the door locked he apparently got through the window of his own room alongside on to the wooden fire escape, intending to enter the other room by the window. He apparently put his hand on the railing, which gave -way and he pitched head first to the pavement in Mackay Street, a distance of about loft.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 233, 1 October 1932, Page 11
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