GROCER'S SUICIDE
LEAP FROM 'PLANE OVER HIS
STORE
SAN ANTONIO (Texas), Dec. 19.
A grocer, aged 24, hired an aeroplane, instructed the pilot to circle above his store, and leaped out from a height of 3500 feet. His body went through the roof, ceiling, and floor of a bungalow, breaking the gas main under the floor. Two women and a baby had a narrow escape. The body crashed through the dining-room a few feet from where they sat.
The fact that the grocer had an ear infection was the only, explanation his [ifamfly could'offen
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1936, Page 4
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94GROCER'S SUICIDE Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1936, Page 4
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