DEATH FOLLOWS INJURY.

New Zealand Herald, 23 May 1921, Page 6

DEATH FOLLOWS INJURY.

> — — ■** , \ BOY FALLS IN LIFT WELL. i - ( ' EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST. A 15-year-old youth, George Jones, who sustained a fracture of the base of the ; skull on Thursday evening, as the result of an accident in a lift, died at the Auckland Hospital on. Saturday. , . An inquest was opened by Mr. W. B. McKean, S.M., Mr. Biernacki appearing ! on behalf of the boy's father, who resides 3, at Seymour Street, Morningside. Evidence 7 was given by Walter Hood, head storei man at Hdtcbinson Bros., Ltd.'s, whole-? - sale department, Customs Street West, to s tire effect that he was called to the base-' - ment floor at 5.30 p,m, on .Thursday, He 3 went down the lift well and found deceased r The distance from .the 5 basement floor to the bottom of the lift j well was 12ft. The gate at the basement t floor was shut; Employees'were notified ■ by conspicuous notices not to'ride in the - lift, which was used for goods only, i Charles Henry Martin, a boy employed in the warehquse, said he asked another boy, Hugh Lynch, to close the windows in. the tearoom on the basement floor. Deceased went with Lynch, but the latter " stated that deceased was hot with him when he was closing the windows. The inquest was adjourned until ?b----s day - ======