Worker Plummets to Sidewalk From Adams Roof on Christmas

Christmas Day was no holiday for James T. Milton, 54-year-old member of the maintenance department. He left home early that morning to shovel off the roof of Adams House, not stopping to open his Christmas presents or receive greetings from his family, and fell from the roof to his death on the Plympton Street sidewalk a few hours later.

Milton, a "veteran roof man" fell some 55 feet to the pavement.