FATAL LEAP
— Press Assooiatlon.)
Youth Caught Under Chin by Clothes Line
(By Teleyraph-
WELLINGTON, Jan. 21. Death overtook Eric Macnaughton, aged 16. an employee of th© C. A. Odlin Timber Co., last night. He worked late with a companion, Ernest Alexander, aged 24. They found themselves unable to get out of the door, so they tried to climb out on to a Free Ambulance building, which adjoins. They attracted the attention of Mrs Roffe, wife of the superintendent, and she placed a ladder across to the fire escape. Alexander got across, but Macnaughton, in jumping down from a concrete ledge to the floor of the yard, J failed to notice a clothes-line. The 1 line caught him under the chin, ard he fell heavily backwards. He ivas taken to liosp.'tal unconscious and d.ed at midnigiht.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 5, 21 January 1937, Page 7
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135FATAL LEAP Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 5, 21 January 1937, Page 7
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