A LEAP TO DEATH

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 252, 18 July 1919, Page 14

A LEAP TO DEATH

FEOil BLAZING AEROPLANE. -A verdiot of "Death by misadventure" was returned.at the inquiry at Friern Barner? into the tragic .death of Mr. lVt'-i- Legli, nephew of Lord Newton, an ex-Bight coinniaitder of the , R.N.A.S., who was killed by falling, froin an-aero-plane, which cauprlit fire' in mid-air. and crashed inlb ■ a field at East Finchley, sayi/the "Weekly Scotsman." The stoi'K nf ihe way in whir'i the airman came io his death, was told by .a linliee coi'stnble' who was on du l y in TTiph Road, East Finchley, and said he saw the machine overhead, and noticed that the, engine was racing:.. He saw the machine nose-dive, and then noticed the aivinnn'apparently.walking alomr the rigid hand' winsr cf the machine. Almost immediately-.afterwards ho ,fell to'the ground. ■ there was-'a preat, 'deal of smoke before this happened, and the machine was .on lire. Just after ij)e smoke ,cloud there.'was a-flash and a vivid smokeless (lame, and then the. machine crashed to the ground entirely enveloped in (lames. He ran to. the spot and assisted in nilHihe; out the. fire. ■ . It was judged from the condition of the airman's clothing, when, witnesses of Ihe fall rushed t<, the spot, that, faced with -the'alternative ; of; beins- burned alive, he deliberately leaped to his Sitdhi

'American- Red Cross Tclief work in Aleppo, Aintab, JUrash, and other districts north of Jerusalem .is "ucinct handed over to the American . Committee.' for Armenian'and-Syrian tielief, together willi supplies valued at\ncarly- iSO.OOO. Soiiia iive, hundred ..Red - Cross motor ambulances- are to be distributed for use in various' English towns ihd rural districts. ' .''■••■ ■. : :.»:■