JOKED—AND FELL.
Melbourne, Sept. 10. Amid the screams of women, John Howgate, 35, plasterer, hurtled 100 feet from the top of a city building to-day and was killed. HoAvgate Avas patching the cement on the side of the Public Bootery building, overlooking a busy shopping lane, off Bourke-street, and immediately above the top floor AvindOAVS. The bottom of his ladder rested on a parapet, and the top rung was tied with a rope to the railing Avhich skirts the roof. He Avas Avorking on portion of a AA r all betAveen two parapets. A moment before he had been talking to a fellow Avorker, and commented jokingly on the possibility of a fall into the lane. Almost immediately afterAvards he fell to his death. It is believed that the rope holding the ladder either broke or came undone.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXI, Issue 10920, 21 September 1932, Page 3
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