MAN'S DISAPPEARANCE FROM AIR LINER

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21987, 11 January 1937, Page 9

MAN'S DISAPPEARANCE FROM AIR LINER

—— -+ — ■— VERDICT OF ACCIDENTAL DEATH (Received January 10, 9.15 p.m.) BRUSSELS, January 9. The King's Prosecutor has concluded an enquiry into the death of Max Wenner, who disappeared from an air liner, and has decided that death was accidental. The verdict was based on a post-mortem examination of the body. Other evidence included the difficulty of opening the door and the tone of a letter to Fraulein Olga Buecksenschutz, whom a friend stated he shortly intended to marry. Wenner's body was found in a wood near Genck. Apart | from a scratched nose and the fact that the buttons were torn off his coat, there was no sign of injury, apparently because trees broke his fall. Sheets 'of an unfinished letter were crumpled in his pocket, addressed to Fraulein Buecksenschutz, of Essen.

[A message on January 5 said that the (Question whether he fell or jumped has been raised in the disappearance of Max Wenner from a Cologne-Brus-sels air liner. Passengers who came to London from Brussels in another aeroplane said that they saw Wenner write letters, put them in his pocket, and leave the compartment. Later they felt a bang and the machine shuddered The door in the floor of the luggage locker was damaged. The bang, therefore, was presumably caused by the door slamming shut by the wind pressure. The air liner was then about 3000 feet over the Meuse district. Wenner, who was about 49 years of age, was reputed to be wealthy. He lived at Batchcbte Hall, Shropshire. His wife, to whom he was most devoted, died in July.3 ,