COMEDIAN’S SUDDEN END

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8652, 10 February 1914, Page 4

COMEDIAN’S SUDDEN END

MR IRVING SAYLES DROPS DEAD. Great regret was expressed to theatrical circles yesterday when it was known that the well-known vaudeville, coloured comedian, Mr Irmig Sayles, had dropped dead m Christchurch. A telegram was received yesterday by Mr W. Douglas, general manager in New Zealand for the Brennan-FuUor firm, contain mg the news. Mr Sayles was a most popular cntortainei, nud his work dates back to 1885, when he came to the Dominion with tho Hicks-Sawyer Minstrels. He was afterwards associated on the Dix circuit with Mr Charles Pope. Mr Sayles appeared in Wellington a few weeks ago with Mr Los. Warton, and he was enthusiastically received everywhere. A Press Association telegram from Christchurch states that just before dinner-time on Sunday Mr Sayles was chatting and joking in the doorway of the hotel where he "was staying. He then walked across the street to a motor-garage and walked hack, but when within a few paces of the hotel doorway he reeled and fell without a word. A doctor was called immediately, and found that death had occurred. At the inquest yesterday afternoon the medical evidence showed that death was due to a clot of blood forcing itself into the main artery supplying the heart. _____