Source, Rutland (Vt) Daily Herald--Tues.Dec.6, 1932. FALL ON STAIRWAY FATAL TO PENDERS. Proctor Man Dies After Plunge at Hotel Holland in This City. Henry Penders of Proctor,(Vt.) ,63, died at 5:30 o'clock yesterday morning at Rutland (Vt) hospital of a broken neck resulting from a fall down a flight of stairs at the Hotel Holland on Merchants Row (Rutland) about 8 o'clock Saturday night. According to a report received from Police Officer Quincy M. Baker,who investigated the accident at the order of State's Attorney Jack A. Crowley, the desk clerk of the lodging house said that Penders, while walking along the corridor on the second floor of the building stumbled and plunged down the stairs. Dr. F. E. Quigley was called to the hotel. He gave the man treatment and later, Sunday morning, ordered him taken to the Rutland hospital. Examination there revealed that the Proctor man had suffered a severe injury to his back and that a number of vertebrae were broken. The body was taken to the Canty funeral rooms on Center street, and later moved to the Penders' late home in Proctor. Penders was born in Castleton, Vt. but had lived in Proctor, Vt. practically all of his life. He is survived by five sisters, Mrs. L. H. Minette and Mrs. Margaret Dorion of Rutland ,Vt., Miss Mary Penders, of Springfield, Mass., and Mrs. Edward Flanagan and Miss Sadie Penders of Proctor, Vt., and three brothers, James, Thomas and John Penders, all of Proctor, Vt. He was a member of the American Order of Foresters and of St. Dominic's church at Proctor, where the funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock. The burial will be in St. Dominic's cemetery.