JUMPED TO DEATH
THREE PEOPLE KILLED TERRIBLE ALTERNATIVE By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. LONDON, Friday. Despite appeals from the crowd to wait for the fire brigade, William Cupitt and his wife, blousemakers, and a woman employee jumped 70ft from a blazing building in Nottingham. They died in hospital. The fire escape arrived a few seconds after the last one leaped, but the three victims had no alternative but to jump or be burned to death. Twenty-four workgiris escaped by an emergency staircase.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 301, 12 March 1928, Page 13
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