SIX STOREYS DOWN
YOUNG MAN KILLED IN TERRIFIC FALL LIFT-WELL TRAGEDY Thinking the lift was at the sixth floor when it was really at the ground, Arthur Richards, a window-dresser at John Court’s, Ltd., opened the gate of a goods elevator at the back of the building and stepped into the well. He fell and was killed instantly. Mr. Richards, who was about 25 years old, had been decorating the tea-room on the sixth floor just before the tragedy occurred. Finisning his work about half-past nine last evening, he opened the door of the liftwell, intending to 'go down to the ground floor and then home. The force of his fall was so great that his body smashed through the roof of the goods lift at the ground floor level. Mr. Richards lived with his parents at Otahuhu.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 525, 30 November 1928, Page 16
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138SIX STOREYS DOWN Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 525, 30 November 1928, Page 16
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