FALL OF 130 FEET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20954, 18 August 1931, Page 10

FALL OF 130 FEET.

BRIDGE WORKER KILLED. DROP DOWN A PYLON. Dropping like .1 stone a sheer 130 ft. insido the pylon on the south side of the Sydney Harbour bridge, John _ Henry Webb, a painter, aged 23, was killed instantly recently Webb, an Englishman, who had been employed on the bridge for three years, was working just below the main bridge decking over the hollow interior of the pylon, when he apparently lost his footing, and crashed to the mass of rubblo beneath. Although others were working near by, nobody saw the actual fall, and Webb did not cry out. In its headlong crash. Webb's body just missed striking a city railway lorry which had completed unloading some waste rock, which was being used to level out the flooring of the pylon. A worker, Jack Barrett, was first to discover the tragedy. The lorry had pursed out. and Barrett strolled back j through the archway at the base of tho pylon. He was horrified to see Webb's mangled body 011 the ground. Near by was a broken paintbrush which had followed Webb in his death fall. Webb was a single man.