MAD AERONAUT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 998, 13 December 1910, Page 6

MAD AERONAUT.

FLIGHT FROM ASYLUM' IN A BALLOON. Henri Dupre, an insane.aeronaut, niad« a curious attempt to-escape from the Pennsylvania State Asylum recently, where lie has been confined for many years. While the inmates were at prayers ha . stole to the roof of the asylum and connected a gaspipe to a rude balloon which he had secretly manufactured out ol pieces of silk he had filched from '■ a tailor's shop. A few moments later the warders were alarmed at the sight of th lunatic hanging-on'a trapeze formed ol ;( broomstick and two ropes beneath thi balloon, which was some loft, in diameter, " He rose to the height of several hunIrod feet,- shouting insanely. "Ha, ha, 1 ain,Jlying away! Why don't you catch me?" Several-shots were fired at him, hitling the envelope, which, however, in the ' j ivtndless sky. was a quarter- of an hour ■' ligh above the asylum. More shots.were -■ ired, and then the strange;, ragged bal--0011 slowly began to ' descend, , settling '' inally on a grass-plot, where Dupre was Bizfirt and carried back to. his, cell;