CAPTAIN ROBERTSON

Evening Star, Issue 19381, 15 October 1926, Page 5

CAPTAIN ROBERTSON

TASMAN FLIGHT PROMOTER

MYSTERIOUS ACCIDENT IN

SYDNEY

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SYDNEY, October 14. Captain Robertson, who arrived here from Auckland to arrange lor a ihgiu from Sydney to i\ow Zealand, tell from a fourth-floor window at the Acre Club’s building in the city to-day, landing on a verandah roof. He was carried through a window on the first iloor and admitted to hospital in a serious condition.

Mystery surrounds tho accident. When ho arrived by the Ulimaroa Captain Robertson said he was going to make a flight from La Po rouse to New Zealand. He also said he was suffering from a nervous breakdown, and would take a couple of weeks’ holiday. To-dav lie called at the offices of the Aero Club, but apparently lie transacted no business. His presence on the premises, was first made known by tho crash of his falling body. AIR CLUB PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT A VAGUE PROPOSAL. SYDNEY, October 14. Captain Hughes, president of the New South Wales Aero Club, states that Robertson called on him to discuss the flight scheme. Robertson was closely questioned' by Captain Hughes, who came to tho conclusion that many of Robertson’s statements would not bear verification. _ Captain Hughes, in the presence of witnesses, told liiiii iie was an impostor, mid that to 1 saleguard tho interests of aviation he would get in touch with the police. Robertson then leapt out of tho window of Captain Hughes’s office. He struck the top of the oriel window on the third iloor, irclioundcd, and crashed on the awning level with the lirst Iloor. When they wore discussing the details Captain Hughes found that the whole proposal was vague, and Robertson was then questioned regarding statements which had appeared in the New Zealand newspapers to tho effect that tho Aero Club of Australia was providing him with a machine. Robertson denied making such statements. After being closely questioned Robertson admitted that ho had never been in the Flying Corps, and then ns Captain Hugncs turned to telephone tho police he leapt through tho window. _