MR. ST. LEGER’S DEATH.
THE RESULT OF AN ACCIDENT
(Special ito “Times.”) WELLINGTON, May 8. News has been received here of the death of the flon. ,R. St. Leger, bf Gisborne, who was a brother of Viscount Doneraile. Mr. St. Leger was a young man well-known to a number of New Zealanders. At the time of his death he was en route to England. On arrival at .Colombo lie visited the Perndenirya-Lo-yal Botanical Gardens, arriving at the Queen’s Hotel,' Kandy, with a party of forty-6ix from the ship in time for dinner. He shared a rooni with Mr John Wynto, of Sydney and London, who deposed that he was awakened at 3 o’clock in the morning by a servant who said that Mr St. Leger had fallen out of a window on the second floor and mas dead. It was found that Mr St. Leger had fallen out into tile road. (He was picked up unconscious and died after admission to the hospital. When Mr St. Leger fell, the sound of the body striking the ground was heard by a rickshaw coolie, a constable wild the hotel! watchman. He received terrible injuries, including a fractured back and skull. A verdict of accidental death was recorded.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2186, 9 May 1908, Page 3
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205MR. ST. LEGER’S DEATH. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2186, 9 May 1908, Page 3
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