Fatal fall
A trapeze artist fell to his death in Bolingbrook. Illinois, while entertaining a shopping mall crowd oil more than 800 people, mostly children. A spokesman for Old Chicago, a shopping centre-amusement: park which opened only a few months ago, said that Jimmy Troy, aged about 50, slipped and fell about 20ft, striking his head on concrete’ covered by artificial turf. He died almost immediately. Mr Troy was billed as "The Comedy King of the Air.” — Bolingbrook.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34021, 9 December 1975, Page 6
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78Fatal fall Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34021, 9 December 1975, Page 6
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