DESPERATE LEAP
FROM FALLING TANK MELBOURNE, July 2. Jumping from a tank which was about to crash SOfr. to tho ground, Robert Garham, of North Eitzrov, catapulted himself through a fifthfloor window this afternoon. Garham was standing on an iron tank which was being lowered trom a building in Flinders lane. When the tank was about 80 feet from the ground, Garham looked up and saw that the rope by which the tank was being lowered was breaking. The tank was directly opposite a window on the fifth floor. Garham immediately leaped to the sill of tho window, which was several foot, away, and fell through into the room. The rope parted a few seconds later and the tank, which weighed about three cwt., fell to the ground. As it fell, it broke the cabin of the motor truck on which it was to have been loaded, and the driver, Arthur Fawcett, was slightly cut by broken glass.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18756, 12 July 1935, Page 5
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