FALL DOWN STATES

Southland Times, Issue 18842, 7 June 1920, Page 5

FALL DOWN STATES

ENDS FATALLY. VISITOR TO INVERCARGILL KILLED. A young man named Herbert York Tinker, a recent arrival in Invercargill, met with a very bad. accident in the early hours of Sunday'morning, to which he succumbed last night. It appears that Tinker, who arrived to take up employment in Invercargill only a few days ago, had been spending the evening with two others in a friend s rooms in Ned’s buddings. Close on two o’clock the party broke up and the visitors had proceeded down one flight of stairs when Tinker asked to be directed to the lavatories. A back stairway was indicated, and his two friends were proceeding down the front staircase wdien they heard a crash. On investigating they found Tinker lying in the well of the stairway in an unconscious state and bleeding from a large cut in the head. He w T as removed to the Hospital, where it was found that he was suffering from a fractured skud. He did not regain consciousness. The stairway on which the accident happened is of an almost precipitous steepness, and it is thought that Tinker missed one of the steps, which are very narrow. The stair was in total darkness. The deceased, who recently arrived from England, has relations in Oamaru. An inquest will be held.