A DIVE TO DEATH

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 340, 22 January 1937, Page 6

A DIVE TO DEATH

TOP OF SYDNEY BUILDING. SEVERE SHOCK FOR WATCHERS A man sitting in a dentist’s chair saw the full tragedy of Arnold Cecil Hill, aged '’6, who leapt 150 ft. to his death from the Manchester UrH, Building one of the tallest in Syd ney. Hill almost struck a man ant iis v ife in the street below. Mr. Ernest Lockrey was in a dentist's chair in a room on the eleventh floor of the nei. by T. and G. Bull' ing. He saw Hill, with both hands thrust forward, drop from the top of the Manchester Unity Building in a swallow-like dive. “It gave me a shock,” he said. “I saw him the mo ment his feet left the parapet, ana startled, I watched his fall. He fel between two cars parked at the sid* of the street.” Mr. and Mrs. George McCahon were walking on the pavement when the body crashed beside them. “J had to duck my bead quickly or J would have been knocked down,” Mr McCahon said. “I felt the draught as it went past me. My wife lookea down, saw the poor fellow lying there and collapsed. I did not feel too good myself.” /. number of people, including many women, who were sitting on the lawns *n Hyde Park, also saw the tragedy. Hill, who was out rf work, had arranged to meet hie wife in the city ct 3.30 p.m. if he failed to secure n position for which he intended to apply. He Ud not keep the appoint-, ment. His body was then lying in tl a city mortuary.