ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES
FALL FROM HOSPITAL WINDOW. (Per .United Press Association.) Christchurch, October 16. A retired farmer named Joseph Sommers fell from a first storey window of the Christchurch Hospital on Friday. His injuries included a broken leg and abrasions to the face. He died the following day. Sommers was a patient, having been admitted on July 21 suffering from haemorrhage of the brain. He was 65 years of age. JUMP TO DEATH. Auckland, October 16. Arthur George Taylor, aged about 40, committed suicide this afternoon by jumping from the parapet of the Grafton Bridge at its highest point. Death must have been instantaneous. The police identified him from a bank book found on his body. There was considerable traffic at the time, about three o'clock. Taylor had been on the parapet next to a lamp post and one woman thought he was attending the light. DEATH FROM POISON. Wellington, October 15. At the inqueat on Frank Hamilton Roach, who was Font to hospital on Friday suffering from the effect* of poieon, the evidence eh owed that he was depressed and out of work. The verdict was death from poison self-administered.
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Southland Times, Issue 20618, 17 October 1928, Page 5
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190ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES Southland Times, Issue 20618, 17 October 1928, Page 5
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