A faded blue cloth cap next to blood on the concrete-paved yard was all that remained following the removal of the body of an elderly St James man after he fell 22 feet, two inches off a ladder yesterday, and died on impact.
Bajan-New Yorker Edgar Adolphus Clinton, 74, of 2nd Avenue, Upper Carlton, St James, died around 9:30 a.m. after the fatal slip on the ladder that was leaned against the back of his well-appointed two-storey apartment building.
According to the police, Linton went up the ladder to speak to a workman who was on the roof cleaning the gutter. It was while he was descending that the incident occurred.
The father of six sons suffered “massive injuries to his skull, right ear lobe . . . and both feet”, said police. His body was removed around 1 p.m.
Clinton, who lives in New York where he still works as a maintenance technician in Manhattan, had been spending the winter months here for the last few years. He arrived here last December and was scheduled to leave in April.
Since erecting the apartments nearly six years ago, he stayed in the bottom apartment where the ladder he fell from was located.
