A FATAL JUMP.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11749, 8 February 1919, Page 5

A FATAL JUMP.

EFFECTS OF INFLUENZA. Per Press Association. i A February 7. George Kirkwood, employed in the Railway Department, was severely injured this morning by jumping from a window, and died later at the hospital. He came into town with his mother, to visit Dr Milsom, and was seated in the waiting room with his mother, when he suddenly made a rush for the window. His mother made an attempt to stop him, but he evaded her and disappeared oat of the window. The room is on the third floor, a distance of about fifty feet from the ground, and in his descent the man struck the gutter of the structure roofing in passage way. Thence his body rebounded and foil a further distance of some twenty feet on to the concrete paving of the light well of the building Dr Milsom immediately Lurried down ana found the man lying on the ground with blood pouring from a severe gash in the throat, the vein being severed He was quite conscious, and said “I am mad, doctor” The injured man had been in camp for some time, and had been suffering from influenza He had been unable to sleep for some considerable time.