DEAD IN LIFT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 29, 4 February 1937, Page 11

DEAD IN LIFT.

UNUSUAL CITY FATALITY. THE CORONER'S VERDICT. The mysterious death on the night of December 12 of Mr. John Tilsey, aged 42, married, of 4, Nelson Street, was investigated by the coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, yesterday afternoon. The body was found in the lift of City Chambers, the neck being fractured. Detective Watereon appeared for the police, Mr. Allan Moody represented the caretaker of the building, Leonard Lawrence Carr, and Mr. Ennor represented the relatives of the deceased. Evidence was given by the caretaker that he found a hat at the bottom of the lift well and later found deceased's body on the floor of the lift, which had stopped at the second floor. Deceased had come to visit witness in hie rooms at the buildings on several occasions previously and had used the lift. In witness , opinion, deceased had become jammed between the lift and the steel mesh of the wall of the well. Witness had never had serious , trouble with the lift before. Ernest Frederick Darwell, an electrician, said he had been* attending to the lift for the paet eight years and, generally speaking, ite condition was good.

The coroner found that deceased had died from a fracture of the neck resulting from an accident caused through his inability to manage a goods lift in which he was trespassing.