SAW HER HUSBAND FALL 3,000 FT INTO LAKE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3339, 4 October 1911, Page 8

SAW HER HUSBAND FALL 3,000 FT INTO LAKE.

TWO AVIATORS KILLED AT THE SAME MEETING. nil: e 1: PROPHETIC WARNING. el no Over 100,000 people saw two aviator’s to dashed to death, at Chicago. The luckJ 3‘ Jess aeroplauists were William Badger r: and St. Croix Johnstone, both young CCr ■, 311'i ) Badger was the first victim. He fell dut f lom a . height of 100 ft. an broke his •ly- neck. An hour later Johnstone was us ! 'flying at a height of 3,000 ft. over Lake he '..-Michigan, when his triplane got out of ceij control and dropped into the lake, row Among the crowd was Johnstone s re young wife, who shrieked as her lius[uat j^ n d fell. “Oh, my boy, my boy; he s a reassure her some of the officials 1 the foid her, “He’ll be all right: it’s only a he ducking.” Later on, when the boat an returned with the body, the people said lLiri “Your husband’s coming back, me “Thank God!” said Mrs Johnstone, ral “pil run a nd get him some dry O: clothes.” - When she returned nobody tu dared to tell her for upwards of an hour n that her 'husband was dead. 3 ( The aviation meeting was not suspended, and a little later the band was he playing and the performance going on S e \ as before. - .. Johnstone’s father had refused to dd, an aeroplane, so the young : 3 man started to build one and went to r 1 Europe,, where he learned: to fly. Then iSU Johnstone’s father again refused to rs* buy him, an aeroplane, and his answer, Pk Written to his son almost a year ago, tai ! seemed to foretell the fatal accident: r 1 Mv conscience will not permit me nd-~—to contribute to your certain death >f 1 by providing you with a flying maohl chine. I can’t buy you one. .This ■ r talk about promoting science and cei forwarding the age of aerial transport ml is the silly claptrap of promoters and ,1 ", advertisers, and is meant to beginile l \ s ~. the public. Let those who encourage jr: - “the pastime” risk their own hopes ,vn " for the benefit of science and trains-. •eni port. Believe me, Croix, you ftvill :r i be well advised to let flying alone, ngif Both Badger and Johnstone formerly e w drove racing automobiles, and were iximi-nown as 6peed-fiends. Mhen automo>mi the as grew insipid they tuimed to avia--5 the;, in as the best means of gratifying jv-oir'lleir natural inclination for excite:e lament. - lie! ’ \ .■ - ; — : . . * ore