PILOT SHOT BY WOMAN PASSENGER
PARIS, December 20. After taking off from the Villa Coublay aerodrome an aeroplane unsteadily landed in a field near Trappes, but took off again as passing motorists rushed up and found the pilot, Pierre Lallemant, staggering about with a bullet wound in the neck.
He was taken to hospital at Versailles, where he said that a woman passenger, Madame Schmeder-Thal-leput, after' a love quarrel, shot him in the back of the neck. Both had left the machine on landing, but the woman re-entered it and flew off.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21972, 22 December 1936, Page 11
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