SHOCKING ACCIDENT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1462, 10 June 1912, Page 5

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.

SIMAN:FALLS SEVENTY^FE£Tig:£ i accident- with' .'-' a-jfataV. ;tes :.niiriawo'n occurred in J3rey Street at-.U.3 n: ■ a.mTton.; Saturday,'. when'Bobert; M'Al'eer;' a\WMdow-cloaner employed.by the' Public •Works Department, foil from.a.nfth-stovy. ■wiiidow.'of-Nathan's Buildingi.to'tholrbw! .lie-low,'-"and' died in. tho,.hospital; diprtly after admission.' ■*'■" " >J ""^. A;Mr>M'Aleer, witlr Messrs.,-A;'-Parker (overseer),-, and. G. Pod, of-, the Publio Works 'Department's.- staff- of .i-wndoVf. cleaners, was engaged in cleaning tho via:-: (lows of tho Post and Telegraph's offices,; on- tiro fifth, floor of Nathan's Buildings,., at.tho corner of Gtey and Fcathorstorfs Streets. ' Tho windows of tho rooms, that; .were beine cleaned arc especially designed', to, make tho task of cleaning them sate' and easy. Thov consist of ono'largo sush,:. which when unlocked at tho side, swings.! inwards on hinges which connect the sash with the bottom of the frame. Mr.j M'Aleer had cleaned one of the two windows in' the chief clerk's room of tho mechanical branch of tho Post and Telegraph; Department, in the ordinary ■ manpor s -j (from within), and had then set about tho.; task of colamng tho other... ■This..ono c however, ho could not clean very'wen.. owing to a fi*ed shelf obstructing tho fail of tho window, so ho must Irovo decided to do his work from tho outside. To do 'tin's ho clambered out by the open wmdmv, ho" had already cleaned, and was in tho act of climbing round the.panel of niaaonry- which divided Uho two windows when lie fell. 1 ' , . ;!■■-»»' ?' Tho sill'slants-downwards at an angie . of ncarlv J5 degrees, and forms no foot-hold,-mid it is thought that the deceased had' relied on some support iram _ a . couple of sfout telegraph «n»l« which lead from tho roof of the General Post Office to the windows m .quest ron. and so -to tlm apartments,w-.thm. . i»' s ,»s homo out by the footmarks scraped in, by the decked otlth. ■ one side of tho cables. and the inaiks ut, tho"' man's last, despairing' Rnp . on Liesill on.the other sine., -..- ■ " mo „. ' ■■ Tho danger of man a pos'mn w£; noticed.by his fe low-deaner. Mr.'-Pod, who, alive'to thor.sk deceased wis tak'ig, called ov.tHo the overseer. from the door of the room a fraction of a second below the fall-too hitc'of course, -to do-anything. ;; ..-■■ §■ his descent tho man struck a lower ledge of the building.'and also, the street electric. lighting wires.-*:- '■■ , 'w-When picked up lie .was still bamnug. "Medical, assistance;-was summoned ... 89 quicklv as ..possible; ami Dr. - Pollen iraj sooTi on the scene. . He at oneo ordered 'he ma"'* removal .to .the hospital. whero, .h^died;a, fe%niii\ules: affor . ho, was ■ ad ; . :sMiSsA^r^ ■fwnivnm.-.venH'of nge, :i , IJe resided at.. Keii-oiigimir' boardinghniis'V' ' Ncw "" vl 1 , -. r 'J'' *Bo(h the overseer (Mr: Parker) and Mr.JR'SI iiate th»t they could no unhand d--e«i«ed-> taking- such n,.™" ~. •"£. n V I P^N,,.theomplnyof.H»eP"^^ork. Department for about, six week n wlm throe prcv ous occasions had cic.n.oci tuo ame'windows ;in Nathan's Busings. Tlc-v agreed »»> nttribulm<r deceased s ac- . ion in BottiW oulsido to his beimr "nablob?"ope\i Window inwards.on account. of::.th» shelf;.-;' ; ;. (i .. ,^- ;: -

:">hn rare event of a■■ wedding ' fit the. old Temple Church. London, wcHrwtl on \ril 11, wl.cn Mr. Kenneth Slirlii*,- »*' of Sir..Tam«« SHriiw, formerly T*Vd Justice of Appeal, ami Muw GW* Woodcock, daughter, of Mr. U»-a o Woodcock, " a barrier ot %£'««£ Temple, wore married. 5t ! tto hut wd<iiii-nt this cbm-oh for oiKht or into S 1 *aid an.official of the ■ Wo.: >'*liott Ave, I believe, have boon cole: biaW in the past wvoirtoen years." As W ohi rch is not in any cccWstiral. rnHsh or Sinocw a H«M Kconse ior ; «no, Bft corfinir ■», had to bo obtained from the Archbishop of Canterbury.