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Show oo 1 FALLS AND BREAKS NECK Salt Lake, Aug, 10. Franci6 Parsons Balcdon, a brick maeon, 21 years of ago- fell to his death from the third story of Gibbons apartments, under construction on Eighth East street, between Second and Third South streets, yesterday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. Holding to a window frame brace, tho young man reached out over the wall for a chalk line. The braco gavo way and he pitched headforemost to tho earth, breaking bin neck. Contractor Con-tractor Cornelius West hurried the dying dy-ing man to the Holy Cross hospital In an automobile, but he oxplred as he waB taken into tho hallway of tho institution. in-stitution. Tho body was immediately removed to the morgue of Undertaker Eber W. Hall Mrs, TV" J. Mann, the mother of tho unfortunate young man, is living at 1322 Elovcnth East Btrcet She took the news of her son's death courago-ously, courago-ously, finding consolation in the fact that ho b.ad always been a steady bo, well liked by all who knew him, and highly respected by hlt employers. His lather. James Balsdon, died In Lo Grange, 111. in 1890. or. |