BALDWIN, THE AERONAUT.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1987, 7 May 1906, Page 7

BALDWIN, THE AERONAUT.

The aeronaut Baldwin, who has recently been blown to pieces in midair at Greenville, Ohio, is, I believe* the man who a few years ago cremated a great sensation in London, Manchester, and other towns by his parachute descents from a balloon. in my capacity as a Journalist I was required to be at one of these performances at the Alexandra Palace, Muswcll Hill, and quite by accident I strolled round, a little way from the crowd, to a position from 1 which f could see into a little tent set up in the grounds for the accommodation of the aeronaut. To my great surprise 1 saw Raidwin taking what appeared to be quite a distressing farewell from his young wife, who evidently had the liveliest sense of the peril of Ids performance, and who was clinging to him with a pale and tearful face. When, after his successful descent, Baldwin appeared on the theatre stage in the Alexandra Palace, and smilingly bowed, his acknowledgements of the thunderous applause, f could not help reflecting that not one of that enthusiastic crowd had the faintest idea that the “drop from the clouds’’ which they had witnessed with thrilling delight had lu-en to at least one solitary watcher a period of the most sickening anguish. That woman has. it appears, lived to stand with her two children and see the father blown to pieces 1,500-fl. up in the air, while engaged in aiims-, ing a holiday crowd at a country fair.