The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-19
DASHED H[ADLONG
/. FROM The WINDOW
Struck on Bricks Nearly IS
Feet Below.
AT THE PARK HOTEL HERE
Danish Decorator Barely Missed Instant Death
His Skull Being Fractured, His Arm
and Hip Broken in the Ter
ribIe Fall,

A shocking accident took place here
in the early hours of yesterday morning.
A human form dashed from a second
story window in the Park Hotel, and
fell with sckening thud upon the brick
pavement on Martin street.
1t was Martin Uordstram who fell, and
he suffered terrible injuries. One bruised
place above the left eye and fracture OF
the skull. broken left arm anda broken
hip, besides internal injuries are the re-
suits of the terrible fall The man is
terribly mashed and mangled.
Nordstram is native of Denmark and
is one of the decorators at work one the
Capital Club interior, sent here by j. #.
Douthett, of New ork, under the direc-
ton of Mr.. Davis, one of their managers.
He is man about AZ years OF age and Is
widower He is said to be quite an
artist and his work in flower birds and
cupids is equisite. He has done work
in the Waldorf Astoria and the Caste at
Denmark.
Nordstram went to his room at 1915
yesterday morning and it was noticed
that he had been drinking. He was with
went to his room, No. 30 on the second
floor, his comrades entering the opposite
room, No. 90. Nothing was heard by
anyone of a disturbance in the hotel dur
ing the night.
Shortly after o'clock one of the board
ers at the Hutchings House, across the
street from the Park Hotel heard the
noise which must have been that of the
man as he fell and cried out Shortly
after o'clock Mr.. G. B. Edwards whose
residence is opposite the hotel was
aroused by the barking of his dog. He
looked out and from the noise across the
street judged that drunken man was
there He telephoned to the police sta
tion about the matter.
1t was half past two o'clock when
Capt Conrad and officer Barrow, of the
police force. reached the scene. They
found man down on the sidewalk, with
b'ood about him and on his clothes, un-
able to walk He was without coat or
hat A cab was summoned and about
quarter to three o'clock Nordstram was
| in the police station and in a cell.
Here, in view of the condition of the
man remarkable entry was made by
Captain Conrad. It was that the man
was drunk and down. His body broken,
his head fractured, his mind dazed
Nordstram could give no account of him.
| self, but his words were OF his coat and
hat. Information was finally obtained
| that he was one of the decorators and
- -
was sent to Mr.. Davis, at the arborough,
who is in charge of the decorators, and
he came at once othe station house, it
being five minutes past five O'Clock He
found Norstram bloody and in a bad con
dition and got stimulants for him.
1t was after five O'Clock that DR.. Nc
Geachy, city physician, says he was tele-
phoned to from the police station. He
directed that the man be taken to Rex
Hospital. and Mr. Davis, who was still
with Nordstram, says it was with diff
Guilty that he could get a hackman to
take the man, and difficult to get anyone
to help him handle the injured body
/ Nordstram was taken to the hospital
and after 6 o'clock DR.. McGeachy reach
ed him. and medical attention was given.
At this time Nordstram was still dazed
and could give no account of the terrible
accident. In the afternoon he said that
the last he remembered was taking a seat
in chair near the window in his room
/ In Nordstram's room yesterday morn
ing it was seen he had not retired. His
coat and hat were in the room and the
pillow and side of the bed indicated that
he had lain there in his clothes. On
going to his room he had told the portol
at the hotel to wake him at o'clock. and
when the call was made his room was
found vacant According to the few in
te1igent words of the man yesterday he
must have gotten up, taken a seat by
the window about / o'clock and later III
| his sleep or from some unaccountable
cause fallen or thrown himself from the
window
At the point where he fell. near the
edge of the sidewalk, was a broken and
Jagged part of water or gas connection
with the box OPEN The cash on his head
would indicate that he had fallen in/ this
on his left side All about the place
biood was splashed where he had lain
and bled for over an hour after the
fall of nearly thirty-five feet Yester
ludy hoihihs the obstIucliOH OH tilc Siue-
walk was covered. the blood washed away
and sand scattered over the place of the
accident.
In Nordstram's room a letter was left
addressed to Mr.. Davis. who has not made
known its contents. On being asked
about the matter he said it was not q
case of attempted suicide, and expressed
great regret at the terrible accident tC
Nordstram. whom he declared was Z
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