FALL TO DEATH
I Because he was holding a hammer in his hand, a steeplejack at the top of a 140-foot high chimney stack, in Pontypridd, Wales, was unable,to grasp a projection when the scaffolding beneath him collapsed, and he was hurled to death down the inside of the stack. His two companions caught the projection, a casting, and saved themselves. The victim was Douglas Bernard "Wright, of Newport, son of a former Mayor of Newport. The first to reach him at the bottom of the stack was his brother Peter. The chimney stack is at the Albion Colliery^ The two brothers had carried on the business of painting contractors and steeplejacks, in which they I were formerly in partnership with their lather.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 129, 3 June 1935, Page 13
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123FALL TO DEATH Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 129, 3 June 1935, Page 13
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