LEAP TO DEATH.
EFFORT TO ESCAPE BURNING BUILDING. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, March 10. Despite the appeals from the crowd to await the arrival of the fire brigade, William Oupitt and his wife, blousemakers, and a woman employee, jumped 70 feet from a blazing building in Nottingham to-day. They died in hospital. The fire escape arrived a few seconds after the last had leaped, hut the three victims had no alternative but to jump or lie burned to death. Twenty-four girls escaped hy an emei-gency staircase.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 12 March 1928, Page 9
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86LEAP TO DEATH. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 12 March 1928, Page 9
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