STOREMAN'S DEATH

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 95, 22 April 1940, Page 9

STOREMAN'S DEATH

EVIDENCE AT INQUEST

An inquest into the death of William Patrick Redmond, a storeman, aged 55, who fell from the top floor of the Wairarapa Farmers' building, Lambton Quay, on to a verandah below, was held today before the Coroner (Mr. James Emslie). In his finding the Coroner said that death was due to shock arising from multiple injuries, and that the injuries were sustained in the ordinary course of the deceased's employment. Evidence was given that Redmond, at the time of the accident, was working alone on the top floor of the building, and it could only be presumed what he was doing, and how he came to fall through the window. In front of the window were three bags, and on the windowsill were several parcels of paper bags. Some of these parcels had. been moved. It would appear, said a police officer, that Redmond was either on top of the bags or standing on the windowsill when he slipped and fell backwards through the window. ' Mr. C. R. Jones, farm hand, 149 The Parade, Island Bay, fractured his thigh when he fell from his motor-cycle in Luxford Street yesterday afternoon. The Free Ambulance took him to hospital. • Tomorrow, in honour of St. George's Day, a special programme will be played on the National War Memorial Carillon, Buckle Street.