MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED
FALL. FROM HOTEL WINDOW. BOTH LEGS BROKEN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HASTINGS, December 27. Discharged yesterday from the Mem-’ orial Hospital, where he had been treated for minor injuries received in a motor collision on Sunday, a 24-year-old Hastings man, Mr Gordon Hesketh, was admitted again in the early hours of this morning in a critical condition after he had fallen to the footpath from a second-floor window of the Carlion Club Hotel. It is not known what led to the accident, whicn was witnessed by a night watchman, Mr Alex Fergusson, who was standing at a corner some distance away. Mr Hesketh was staying at the hotel and was clad in his pyjamas at the time of his fall. 'The window through which he fell was that opening into his bedroom. Tlie police were immediately summoned by Mr Fergusson. and the injured man was taken to hospital, whore it was found that, he had received fractures of both legs, several broken ribs and. abdominal injuries. His condition tonight was still critical.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1939, Page 6
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174MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1939, Page 6
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