AIR DESIGNER’S DEATH
RESULT OF BLOW & FALL. VERDICT AT INQUEST. (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, June 20. At the inquest on Captain Nicholas Comper a verdict was returned that death was. caused by compression of the brain, due to a fall as the result of a blow on the jaw. A witness testified that Captain Comper lighted a firework in the street when a man walked over and struck him on the jaw. The assailant alleged that Captain said: “I’m an I.R.A. man,” and his assailant thought he was setting off a bomb. Captain Comper, an aviator, was found unconscious at Hythe and died in hospital from a fracture of the base of the skull. The police stated that a man had been charged with manslaughter. Captain Comper designed the Comper-Swift machine which held the England to Australia record in 1931.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1939, Page 6
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142AIR DESIGNER’S DEATH Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1939, Page 6
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