BALLOON FATALITY
Death Of Inventor 6i Modern Parachute. PRESENTIMENT BTRANGE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12 noon.) RUGBY, September 10. Apart from his ballooning Captain Harry Spencer, who was killed at Rugby yesterday in attempting the • rescue of his.son who crashed on a housetop, had probably made a greater number of parachute descents than any other man living. He was the inventor of the original Spencer parachute which was used during the war. On one occasion he made a descent from 13,500 feet at Halifax. He had often stated that he should ■ever die in a balloon accident*, or a parachute mishap, but from something Suite simple. It is presumed that ha ied from the effects of gas from his sou Percival's balloon, which he went up to disentangle on the roof of a house.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 215, 11 September 1928, Page 9
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