AN AIR SUICIDE
A WOMAN’S LEAP
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
■ ‘■X'J (Received this day at 8 a.m.) , i NEW YORK, November 12. . “ She came into pur office appearing quite normal and said she would fly high,” said Edwai’d Booth, a p/lot from whose plane Ruth Rockwell leaped to •I suicide .(cabled yesterday). “We went aloft and when.. about fifteen hundred feet up I looked round and saw her .©yes.tightly; closed. Thinking she' was .’< frightened, by her first flight, I tried ■ to reassure her that everything was all right. She pointed higher and I ran to'two thousand feet and suddenly felt a bump, which surprised me, as the air was smooth. I looked round and saw her tfalling through space a hundred feet away. She had gone through the rear door to her doom.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1929, Page 5
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