Richmond, Va., July 16—Duncan White, 19, member of a prominent Wilmington, N.C., family, fell out of a window in a rooming house at 409 East Franklin Street today. Although he fell a distance of 25 feet and struck a brick pavement below, he was only slightly hurt.
Accompanied by his mother, Mrs. D.C. White, he came here recently to take serum treatment at a local sanatorium for sleeping sickness from which he has suffered for the last several years. This treatment, it was explained, is something new and rather heroic, being particularly hard on the nerves. The theory is that the youth, failing to react to the treatment, became highly nervous and lost control of himself while seated in the window.
He had just shaved and taken his seat on the window sill when he was seen to tumble headlong to the ground. He was addicted to writing poetry, and it was reported that he was in the act of composing a poem when the accident occurred. This was denied, however, by his mother, who happened to be in the room at the time. She declined to permit reporters to interview her son after the accident.
Examination of the young man showed that a slight laceration of the scalp and a bruised shoulder constituted the extent of his injuries. That he was not seriously injured is regarded as little short of miraculous.
From the front page of The Mooresville Enterprise, Thursday, July 23, 1925
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