A DIVE TO DEATH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22612, 28 December 1936, Page 13

A DIVE TO DEATH

TOP OF SYDNEY BUILDING SEVERE SHOCK FOR WATCHERS. [FROM OUII OWN con RESPONDENT] SYDNEY, Dec. 10 A man sitting in a dentist's chair saw the full tragedy of Arnold Cecil Hill, aged 36, who leapt 150 ft. to his death from the Manchester Unity Building, one of the tallest in Sydney. Hill almost struck a man and his wife in the street below. Mr. Finest Lockrev was in a dentist's chair in a room on the eleventh floor of tlu l near by T. and G. Building. He saw Hill, with both hands thrust forward, drop from the top of the Manchester Unity Huilding in a su allow-like divo. "It gave mo a shock," he snid. " 1 saw him the moment his feet, left the parapet, and, startled, I watched his full. He fell between two cars parked at the side of the street.." Air. and .Mrs. George MrCahon were walking on the pavement when the body crashed beside them. "I bad to duck my bead quickly or I Mould have been knocked down," Mr. McCalion snid. " I felt the draught as it went past me. My wife looked down, saw tho poor fellow lying there, and collapsed. 1 did not feel too good myself." A number of people, including many women, who were sitting on tho lawns in Hyde I'ark, also saw the tragedy. Hill, who was out of work, bad arranged to meet his wife in the city at 3.30 p.m. if he failed to secure a position for which ho intended to apply. He did not keep tho appointment. His body was then lying in tho city mortuary.