While acting as a nurse and taking care of Jack Smith, a butcher and grocer at Bryant, Frank Elliott, plunged accidentally down a cellarway at the Smith home Thursday night and sustained injuries which caused his death at 4 o’clock Friday morning. Elliott’s skull was fractured when his head came into contact with the hard floor and steps. He did not recover consciousness, and those who hastened to his assistance were unable to explain just how he came to mistake the cellarway for the porch steps leading to the rear door yard at the Smith home.
When Jack Smith was taken ill, Elliott became one of the number of watchers who sat with the sick man in the night time. About 10:00 o’clock Thursday night, Elliott had occasion to pass from the sick room and go out of doors. He was not well acquainted with the rear porch and the door yard, and in stepping from the porch turned toward the cellarway opening at the edge of the house, and plunged head foremost into its depths.
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