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Detroit Free Press
Sunday, 3 June 1860

         Fatal Accident - MR. GEORGE HALL, a young man about
       twenty-five years old, met a terrible death in this
       city yesterday afternoon about four o'clock. He was
       building a scaffold from a third story window of one
       of the new buildings now being erected at the depot.
       He had nailed some brackets to the window-casing,
       placed a board across, and got upon it to tack on 
       some braces. One of the brackets - a whitewood scant-
       ling two by six inches, but of a dead, brittle texture
       - gave way, and he fell a distance of over forty feet,
       striking in his descent a scaffolding on a level with
       the top of the first story, breaking through, and
       thence falling to the bottom of the cellar area, in
       which was a lot of cobble-stone. He struck on the
       back of his head, of course breaking the skull, and
       bruising his head to an extent easy to be imagined.
       He lived about an hour, but was unconscious from the
       time of the accident. - Ypsilanti Herald, June 2.
       
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