WEDGED IN CANNON.
DEATH OF SHOWMAN. (Australian Press Association—United Service). NEW YORK, Sept. 22. Harry Ackenhausen, “the human projectile,” who became wedged in a cannon at Boston last Thursday, died at Springfield. Ackenhausen was a native of Germany.
A message published on Friday 6tated that Captain Wilno, the “roputed human cannonball,” was thought to have been fatally injured' at a Springfield fair, when he failed to come out of the cannon at tho explosion of the powder charge.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 253, 24 September 1929, Page 7
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78WEDGED IN CANNON. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 253, 24 September 1929, Page 7
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