A MYSTERIOUS FALL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17189, 5 November 1923, Page 8

A MYSTERIOUS FALL.

• SEFTON LICENSEE’S DEATH. j Before lie could give a statement as j ' io his fall from a window on the second | story of the Sefton Hotel. Frances * | John Yliestra. the licensee, died early j j this morning, an hour alter medical J aid had been secured. At eleven o'clock last night. Mrs j I Vliestra. who had retired at ten j ! o'clock io a room adjoining her Inis- ' door below . She went out tn see who j j the person was. and found her bus- ! j I iml in night attire. He slated that j I he had fallen from a window, but be j : was able to walk with Mrs V Rostra's j assistance, the decea.s, d walked to ills - bedroom. Dr Will, ol Raiigiora. was | j sent for. but when be arrived Ylies-j and bevond medical help. The window from which Vliestra fell is in a passage, round a corner from lus own room. He injured his head i , in the fall, and in the injuny. associat- 1 | oil with shock. is supposed to have i caused his death. The hold was to have been banded i at- a considerable loss, tiro death of I one of his children, and Ins ow .. weak i health, had made Vliestra very dej pressed for some time. He leaves a ' familv of seven, the youngest to ing fifteen years. t An inquest will Ire held.