JUMPED FROM PLANE
Young School Teacher and Meelhtart Commit Suicide
PLUNGE FROM 1000 FEET
Inquiry over funds
(United Tftem iawclatlon—By Electric Telegraph J”^'x : vr ;C. Z Oopyrifibt.) "]R<?eeivecl 3.15 p.m., to-day. BASLE, March 1.
Karl Gricder, aged 25, a school teacher, ‘and • his sweetheart named Joeri, a sweetshop employee, committed suicide by jumping 1000 feet from an aeroplane. The Xondoh Times’ Basle correspondent ,says. a committee had earlier examined Gricder regarding trust funds, for distribution'to aged people in his village-of Lausen.
Instead of returning to the village he had tea with his sweetheart at the Basle aerodrome and hired an aeroplane. The girl-opened a door ' and jumped out over Lahsen while Gricder was Speaking to the pilot. Gricder immediately followed. Their mutilated bodies were found 150 feet apart.
The pilot, returned to Basle at top speed and-informed the police.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 2 March 1935, Page 6
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