MID-AIR TRAGEDY.
WOMAN PARAOHUTIBT KILLED THROUGH A BLUNDER.
By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyrigh
Received 5.35 p.m., Nov. 5. New York, Nov. 4. Mrs Croadwiok,.a parachutist, ascended in a balloon with her hnsband at Colombia, South Carolina. She signalled her husband to cat the parachute rope. Owing to some mistake she was clinging to the topee between the balloon and the para* ohute. ■ She fell 250 feet, and was killed in the presence of one thousand spectators.'
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1595, 6 November 1905, Page 2
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