PLUNGE TO DOOM
BOXER’S PARACHUTE TRAGEDY [United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright]. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23. Fred Mahan, who lias been nationally prominent as a welter weight boxer, and who was a deaf mute plunged to death in a five thousand feet parachute jump which he made from an aeroplane, in an effort to regain his hearing. Only the pilot parachute opened.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1930, Page 3
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61PLUNGE TO DOOM Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1930, Page 3
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