WOMAN’S FATAL FALL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 580, 5 February 1929, Page 1

WOMAN’S FATAL FALL

Crashes 100 Feet

BODY TERRIBLY BROKEN Tragedy in Lome Street

AT 1.45 o’clock this afternoon a woman either fell or jumped from the top of the Ngapuhi Chambers in Lome Street, falling about 100 feet cn to the concrete pavement below. The body, which could not be identified immediately, was terribly mangled. The spine, arms and legs were all broken and the head was also severely broken.

r |\;lE woman either fell or jumped from a window of the premises of the Majestic School of Dancing ■which is conducted by Mdlle. Vales'ka and Mr. Den Wilson. Although there were several pedestrians in the street at the time, and other people in motor-cars which were parked there, no one heard a sound | until the body struck the concrete j pavement with a sickening thud, i The rooms from which the woman ! must have fallen are on the fifth floor jof the Ngapuhi Chambers, a tall j building at tbe rear of the Wellesley i Street Post Office and opposite the ! rear of the Regent Theatre. When the police went to make investigations they found that the door

I to the rooms was locked on the in- | side and There was no response when i they called. The door appeared to j have been locked from the inside but j the key was missing. | The woman, who appeared to be i middle-aged, was wearing a wedding- | ring. Mr. W. T. Edney, manager of Associated Motors, received a severe shock when the body crashed on to the pavement only ten feet to the left of him. He was walking along Lome Street when, without warning, the woman's body struck the asphalt with extraordinary force. At half past two Mile. Valeska and Mr. Len Wilson arrived at the Ngapuhi Chambers and opened the rooms for the police.