DEATH AT A WEDDING

Evening Star, Issue 22450, 22 September 1936, Page 11

DEATH AT A WEDDING

REGISTRY OFFICE TRAGEDY Death tragically interrupted a wedding ceremony at a London registry office recently. While a wedding was taking place between Mr Lewis Brett, of Bromley, and Miss Hettie Histed, of Bromley Common, a crash was heard from an adjoining room. The wedding party rushed in to see what had happened and discovered a man lying dead beneath a heavy safe, which had fallen upon him and crushed him. The bride fainted at the sight, and had to receive medical attention. The wedding ceremony was eventually carried out an hour later. The dead man was Bobert Sears, aged 63, who was engaged with other men in moving the safe from one room to another. “ The men had got the safe on to a small bogie for moving,” an interviewer was told by one of those assisting, “ when it toppled over, and Scars was pinned beneath it. ft was a very heavy safe, and at first it was thought impossible to move it without the assistance of the lire brigade. They were sent for, but by the time (hey arrived wc bad managed to gel Sears out. Me was, however, dead.”