BALLOONIST FALLS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3379, 7 January 1920, Page 6

BALLOONIST FALLS.

ONE HUNDEED-FOOT DEOP. ♦ ESCAPES WITH BEOKEN LEG. An exciting incident occurred, at Googee. Sydney, last week, when Mr V. P. Taylor, the balloonist, bad a narrow escape from death. He was to ascend a height of several hundred feet at the Coogeo Carnival and then' come back to earth by parachute, but when' the balloon had risen only about 100 ft it seemed to be slowly falling.,-' The next thing that thousands of spectators saw was The balloonist jump out with the parachute. But 100 feet was too low for the parachute to become effective and he came straight down without any check until within 0, few yards of the earth. Then the parachute opened, and the balloonist/ fell into the cricket reserve heavily. The spectators ,b.<?>ieyed /. Vf, must have been killed, and rushed to where h e bad fallen. They were surprised when Mr Taylor sat up. Although the parachute had taken sufficient speed out of the fall to save him from being killed,, he was found to‘be suffering from a broken log-