A LADY PARACHUTIST'S TERRIBLE END.
London, August 6. | Adelaide Bassett, parachutist, met with a terrible death at a fete in Peterborough to-day, t She was giving a performance in the presence of a thousand people, and in ascent the parachute was injured by contact with the telograph wires.
Bassett jumped from the height of 60 feet and fell on her head, death being almost instantaneous.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5097, 7 August 1895, Page 2
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65A LADY PARACHUTIST'S TERRIBLE END. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5097, 7 August 1895, Page 2
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