END OF TASMAN FLIGHT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3551, 16 October 1926, Page 3

END OF TASMAN FLIGHT.

ROBERTSON ATTEMPTS TO COMMIT SUICIDE.

Sydney, Ortober 14th

Robert Robertson, who arrived here from Auckland to arrange a flight! from Sydney to New Zealand, jumped from the fourth floor window of the Aero Club’s buildings and was seriously injured.

Captain Hughes, President o| the New South Wales Aero.Club states that Robertson called on him to discuss the flight scheme. Robertson was closely questioned by Hughes, who came to the conclusion that many of Robertson’s statements would not bear verification.

Hughes, in the presence of witnesses, told him that he was an imposter, and that to safeguard the interests of aviation, he would get in touch with the police. Robertson then leapt out of the window of Hughes’s office, struck the top of the oriel window of the third floor rebounded and crashed on to the awnjng level with the first floor. When they were discussing the details, Hughes found the whole problem vague, and Robertson was then questioned regarding statements which appeared in New Zealand newspapers, to the effect that the Aero Club of Australia was providing him with a machine. Robertson denied making such statements. After being closely questioned Robertson admitted that he had never been in the Flying Corps and then, as Hughes turned t<J telephone the police, Robertson jumped through the window.