BOY’S DEATH FALL
BECAME ILL WHILE ALONE Taken ill while alone in a room at the Physiological Institute, Cambridge, England, Jim Peck, aged 15, a- junior laboratory assistant, climbed on to a glass-topped table to open a window to get some air. # He slipped, fell 50ft., and was killed. After hearing this evidence the Cambridge Borough 1 coroner, Mr. W. R, Wallis, recorded a verdict of “accidental death," saying that if the table had had a wooden top the accident might not have happened. Dr. George Norman Myers, a demonstrator at the Physiological Institute, stated that the. door of the room from which Peck fell was locked on the inside
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20071, 18 October 1939, Page 5
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110BOY’S DEATH FALL Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20071, 18 October 1939, Page 5
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