Fatal Fall From Balcony
Mellington, june u. s'leep walking, from n lO^^lWgh'* balcony to a driveway at P0'( Ali Smith Street, Wellington, may %ve been the cause of the death of •Tohn' Gyril Parker, a tiler, aged 22. H> diQd from severe head irtjuries in the Wellington Public Hosp'itah to-day. Po lice investigations are being made. Dressed in pyjamas, he was discovcred shortlv after 6 a.111. on Monday Iv ing on tlie edge of a bitumen drive between a two-storey boardinghouse and flower bed, 26 feet out from the balcony rail. He apparently had been there only a few minutes as residents passed the spot earlier. His elothesi hau been neatly put away in tlie upstairs room which he shared with anothe.r voung man. His valiiables were intac.t and' his bed had been slept in. There was no trace of any struggle in -the room, liallway or 011 tlie balcony:
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 June 1949, Page 5
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