From the Bromley Journal and West Kent Herald, 5 January 1900.

Rochester and Chatham.

While assisting in the ornamentation of the Queen's Hall of the constitutional club, Military Road, Chatham, for a soiree on New Year's night, Mr. William small, of Windmill Road, new Brompton, had a terrible fall 25 feet. From a ladder onto the floor of the hall. He was picked up by Mr. W. McIntosh in an insensible condition, having fallen on his head, and conveyed to Saint Bartholomew's hospital,. The poor fellow never recovered consciousness, and expired the following morning. Deceased had arranged to attend the dance with his wife for whom much sympathy is felt in her sad bereavement.