AEROPLANE PILOT KILLS PASSENGER
FIGHT IN MIDAIR
BASEBALL PLAYER ATTACKS CREW
(Received September 18, 12.30 a.m.) TORONTO, September 17. Len Koenecke, a member of the Brooklyn National League baseball team, was killed in midair to-day when he engaged the pilot, W. J. Mulqueeney, and his assistant, Urwin Davis, in a fight, compelling the pilot to strike him over the head with a fire extinguisher. "The aeroplane rocked dangerously, and it was either a case of the three of us crashing, or of doing something to Koenecke," said Mulqueeney. * The aeroplane was damaged in landing in a field near Toronto. Koenecke had been drinking and appeared to be under great stress when he chartered the aeroplane at Detroit. After Brooklyn lost to St. Louis on Monday Koenecke was sent away for the rest of the season, and it seemed likely that he would not appear again in the Brooklyn team's uniform.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21581, 18 September 1935, Page 13
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