WIDOW FLIES TO DEATH

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 January 1934, Page 2

WIDOW FLIES TO DEATH

HEADED FOR ATLANTIC. \ JACKSONVILLE (Florida), Nov. 21. “I’m just going out into space to find out what it is all about; if there isn’t anything, that will be O.K. too. I am not coming back. lam going to make a thorough job of it. lam flying out to sea until the fuel has gone.” “These dramatic statements were part of a letter found after the disappearance of Mrs. Louise Turck Stanton, a young member of an aristocratic family here, in a borrowed aeroplane. “I don’t want any wreckage found,” the letter added. Mrs. Stanton, an enthusiatic flying student, borrowed a machine from the Jacksonville air-port, and left, letters in her car for her family and the manager of the aerodrome. She took with her only sufficient fuel for four hours’ flying. Her husband, Mr. Gordon Stanton, was killed in a motoring accident eleven days ago, and the bereavement had affected her deeply. Moreover, she was crippled by infantile paralysis, and was one of the few pilots to hold a special “dispensation” license. Three machines which set out to search the Atlantic seaboard ' for her have failed to find any trace after covering many hundreds of miles. This evening, many hours after her departure, little doubt is entertained that she has perished.