DESPERATE SUICIDE
LEAP FROM SKYSCRAPER. SENSATION IN NEW YORK. Press Association— -By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, April 30. (Received May 1, at 5 p.m.) Mrs Rose Grainger, mother iof Mr Percy Grainger, leaped from the 18-storoy Aeolian building, in the busiest street in New York, and was instantly killed. The police believe that Mrs Grainger ended her life because ’ she was suffering from a painful stomach ailment. She had come to visit the office of her son’s concert tour. The headquarters manageress, Mrs Sawyer, stated that Mrs Grainger rested on the couch, and complained of stomachal pains. She asked the manageress to go to a chemist’s, but when the latter returned she found the room empty. Hundreds of people saw the leap. Mrs Grainger was 60 years old. Her son is on a Los Angelos concert tour. — A. and N.Z. Cable. [Mr Percy Grainger, the famous composer, is an Australian by birth. He toured New
Zealand a number of years ago with Ada Croesley.]
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18543, 2 May 1922, Page 5
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