The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-16
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apartment ho,,-e tonight and sustained
INJURIES from Witch n Ia ,houata he cahoo,
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Mr. Tester wa 90 HE way Ia tho roof
gnrian ~ She Cairo when he made n mia.
step abi foil headlonE through Tho -sylEla
10 che eleventh floor. q distance ~ STOUT
thirty feet. He sustained a fracture n oho
log and ~ one ahoulderbl,de. Hia body
was BADLY manRled and his head and face
we're cut by gasa. II IL believed that hs
sustained internal injuries, lie was un-
csnscio,is when help reached him, and
owing 20 his advanced ago his rscovory
Ia regarded IA extremely doubtful,
Tho skylight through which Mr.. Lester
fell In on the roof Of the Cairo, which Ia
thirteen stories high, why he went upon
the roof Ii a mystery, and his condition u
such that he Ia unable to give any %expiana-
ton.
Tho suggestion 10 that he went on the
roof In an endeavor to find his two little
grandchildren, Lester and Martha Ran
dolph. who had been living with Repre-
sentative and Mrs. Lester at the Cairo since
their mothers death.
The children had been talking about
going up on the roof to see Knabenshue's
airship, which they believed would make
a night flight. 1t ia supposed that he be-
came worried over the thought that the
children, who are 8 and Q years old, were
on the roof and went there to find them.
A few mirutes before the accident 90
CURED Mr.. Lester was on the ground floor
OF the apartment house inquiring for the
children. He did not go to the roof In the
elevator, but climbed all the stairs from the
first 10 the thirteenth floor, presumably
thinking he would run across the children
on the way
In order to reach the roof he was obliged
to climb a ladder and squeeze his body
through n small hole, hardly large enough
for it to get through. The skylight Is COW
cred, and MIR. Lester m have crawled
under this roof on to the frail structure.
which was not sufficient to bear his weight.
Mr.. Lester fell a distance Of thirty feet.
His body struck the floor directly at the
feet Of Mrs. f. X. Moore, who Immediately
called for assistance. Mr.. Lester was taken
to his apartments on the third floor and
physicians were summoned, At a late hour
tonight ne was in a very precarious oondi-
ton, Representative and Mrs. Lester have
lived at the Cairo for eleven years.
Representative Lester, who is 6s years
old, is the senior member Of the Georgia
delegation and is serving his ninth term
in the House. He Is one Of the nine remain
ing members OF the House who served in
the Confederate army.
Mr.. Lester was born in Burke county,
Georgia, on December IL, 1887 When
20 years old he was graduated from Mercer
University and admitted to the bar two
years later. Before ne was "a he became
a Confederate soldier and served for the
entire period Of the civil war. Then he
went back to practising law. His first
political success was in 1870, when he was
elected to the Georgia Senate, in which he
served nine years, for the last three being
its president. From January, 1888, to
January, 1889, he was Mayor Of Savannah.
In 1888 he was elected to the Fifty-frst
Congress and to every Congress since then.