FATAL FALL FROM BALCONY

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 92, 12 January 1929, Page 10

FATAL FALL FROM BALCONY

OUNG MAN’S TRAGIC END

;A distressing fatality occurred in aimer Street about midnight yesterty. Mr. Frederick Ivan Eton, a young an well-known in athletic circles, was lending the evening with two friends

. a house in Palmer Street. As the eather was warm, Eton and one of s friends went out on to the balcony, om which the unfortunate young man 11 on to a concrete path some twelve et below, and broke his neck. The ambulance was summoned,' but i their arrival they could see that a agedy had occurred, and suggested :at medical assistance should be sumoned. Dr. R. Walter Richards, who ■sides in the vicinity, was speedily i the scene, but could only pronounce ;e to be extinct.

The deceased, who was a son of Mr. H. Eton, of 76 Orangi-Kaupapa bad, was a prominent cricketer, being regular member of the Wellington illege Old Boys’ senior eleven, with bom he had been selected to play toly. In a junior grade game a few asons back, he ran up a record score ; 262. He was also a prominent Assoation footballer, having played at fferent times with the Karori and .M.C.A. teams.