FALL FROM A WINDOW.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19510, 14 December 1926, Page 12

FALL FROM A WINDOW.

RETURNED SOLDIER'S FATE. FOUND UPON PAVEMENT. THE RESULT OF AN ACCIDENT. [BE TELEGRAPHj—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. Falling from a second-storey window in the Southbridge Hotel, Douglas Dexter Box, aged 29 years, received injuries which proved fatal. He was a single man, a returned soldier, and by occupation a wool classer. His father resides at Sum-

Bos was found about 1.30 a.m. yesterdaj' lying unconscious on the pavement below the window of his room. He had retired to bed two hours previously. He died in the Leeston Hospital, seven hours later. At the inquest, a verdict was returned that Box died of coma following hemorrhage of the brain caused by a fracture of the skull, sustained by accidentally falling ouli of the bedroom window. There was no suggestion of drink, the evidence showing Box to have been a steady man. CASE AT BLENHEIM. MAN FOUND DEAD IN YARD. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] BLENHEIM. Monday. Frederick Oscar Lanstrom, proprietor of the City Private Hotel and Loloma Tea Rooms, was found dead in the Loloma yard at 4.50 o'clock this morning. It is presumed he fell out of & secondstorey window about midnight. The inquest was adjourned until next .Tuesday.