DEATH OF AN INDIAN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19011, 6 November 1923, Page 9

DEATH OF AN INDIAN.

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(From Our Own Correspondent.: WELLINGTON, November S. . This morning- nn Indian named Dayal Moya, aged 23, employed as a porter at the Hotel Arcadia, foil from the parapet of the building to the pavement 70ft below and was killed. He had been cleaning windows, and for some unexplained reason appears to have made his way round the top of the parapet at the side of the bunding, climbed over the front parapet, and endeavoured to reach a cornice sft below. In doing so he apparently supported himself by holding on to an ornamental concrete rose, which gave way. Moya must have made a desperate attempt to hold on to the smaller cornice which was some 2ft below the one he was making for, for this showed the marks where his fingers had dragged across it, but its sloping surface gave little chance of a hold, and he fell, landing on a number of telephone wires on the way down, and finally crashing on to the pavement. He sustained a broken arm and leg, and he also suffered from a cut head and internal injuries. He was conveyed to the hospital in a precarious condition and died in the. afternoon. There was some delay in the arrival of the . ambulance. The police were communicated with and arrived within a couple of minutes of the accident. They immediately summoned the ambulance, stating that the case was serious. Dr Gilmer was then communicated with and arrived within a few minutes, but the ambulance did not, arrive until 20 minutes aftei it had been summoned. In .the meantime .the badlyinjured man had to be laid in a cellar doorway just off the footpath where but little attention could be paid him. It seems, however, unlikely that a more prompt arrival of the ambulance would have saved his life, his injuries being of such a serious nature.