LEAP TO DEATH

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 2 May 1922, Page 5

LEAP TO DEATH

BY FAMOUS PIANIST'S MOTHER

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION-COPYEIGHT NEW YORK, April 30. Mrs Grainger, mother of Mr Percy Grainger, the famous pianist, who comes from Melbourne, leaped from the eighteen-storey Aeolian building into the busiest street in New York, and was instantly killed. The police believe Mrs Grainger ended her life because she was suffering from a painful stomach ailment.

She had come to visit the office of her son's concert tour headquarters. The manageress (Mrs Sawyer) stated that she rested on the couch and complained of stomachal pains. She asked the manageress to go to a chemist's, and when the latter returned she found the room empty. Hundreds saw the leap. Mrs Grainger was sixty years old. Her son was on a Los Angeles concert tour.