FALL THROUGH SKYLIGHT
A fortunate escape from very serious injury was experienced by Henry Cunningham, a window cleaner aged 26, residing at 169, Tasman street, when he fell through a skylight and tho glass' top of a show case shortly after 11 o 'clock this morning while working at the premises of Williams's Cash Drapery, Cuba streot. 'The board on which Cunningham was working overbalanced and he fell into the show case below, where his fall was broken by the drapery display. Had he fallen a little to one. side he would have landed directly upon the tiled floor. He was removed to the Hospital by the City Ambulance, suffering from a lacerated wound on the left arm and with the third finger of his left hand completely severed. He also received concussion and injuries to the body and both legs.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 28 May 1928, Page 11
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141FALL THROUGH SKYLIGHT Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 28 May 1928, Page 11
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