Aerial Suicide Near Basle
TEACHER AND SWEETHEART BASLE, March 1. Karl Cricder, 25, schoolteacher, and his sweetheart, a girl named Joeri, a employee, committed suicide by jumping a thousand feet from an aeroplane. The lovers’ leap was almost identical With that of the du B'ois girls, but the Basic pilot was horrified to witness the jump to death and unablo to leave the controls. Both Gricder and Joeri were unmarried. They paid for all four seats in order to have the aeroplane to themselves. They jumped seventeen minutes after the start. Tho girl hesitated a moment at tho door of the machine, but Griodcr followed while she was still in the air.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 53, 5 March 1935, Page 9
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