TWO LUCKY ESCAPES
JUMP FROM HIGH WINDOWS THIRD WOMAN DIES LATER P.A. CHRISTCHURCH, Nov. 18. Two of the female office employees who jumped from the third storey windows on Colombo street had fortunate escapes from serious injury, and the Christchurch Hospital. to-night reported that their condition was satisfactory. A third woman was seriously injured and died in hospital at 5.45 p.m. She was Mrs Violet May Cody (or Coady), and her address is unknown. The injured women were Mrs Nancy Gladys Nash, of 17 Conway street, Spreydon; Miss Lois M. Kennedy, of 4 Swann’s road. Richmond. Miss Kennedy’s fiance, who works near Ballantyne’s, ran to the building when he heard that the fire had broken out, and was in time to help the .firemen lift Miss Kennedy from the verandah on to which she jumped. Mrs Nash was a close friend of Miss Kennedy, and the two decided to jump when they found that all exits from the administrative offices were blocked by flames.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26622, 19 November 1947, Page 4
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164TWO LUCKY ESCAPES Otago Daily Times, Issue 26622, 19 November 1947, Page 4
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