FALL ON ROOF

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23263, 4 February 1939, Page 14

FALL ON ROOF

SEAMAN FRACTURES LEG DIFFICULTIES IN RESCUE [BY TELEGRArn —rRESS association] CHEISTCHURCH. Friday Police, the fire brigade and the St. John Ambulance all congregated in Lichfield Street early yesterday morning to rescue Mr. Frederick Cable, an abie seaman, aged 36, of 11.M.5. Leith, who was found about five o'clock in the morning by the nightwatchman lying on the verandah roof of a building with a fractured right leg.

Some unknown errand had taken Mr. Cable up the fire escape on the building and during the night be had fallen off, landing on the verandah roof below, fracturing his leg and being knocked unconscious.

The noiso of his fall, which oecm-red about midnight, attracted the attention of a policeman on patrol below, but alter a fruitless search for the cause of the disturbance the constable moved on.

About 4.30 a.m., when lie recovered consciousness, Mr. Cable began to rattle energetically on tlie windows near him and succeeded in attracting the attention of a nightwatchman, who ; summoned the polico.

It was found impossible to rescue the injured man without a ladder, so tho lire brigade was called and he was quickly brought down and placed in a. waiting ambulance.

Mr. Cable is now in tho Christchurch PubJic Hospital, his condition being satisfactory.