FALL FROM HIGH WINDOW.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19459, 15 October 1926, Page 11

FALL FROM HIGH WINDOW.

CAPTAIN ROBERTSON HURT. DRAMATIC CIRCUMSTANCES. PROPOSER OF TASMAN RIGHT. By Telegraph—Press Association—CopyriflJit. (Received 12.55 a.m.) A. and N.Z. SYDNEY. Oct. 14. Serious injuries were sustained to-day by Captain Robert Robertson, who arrived here from Auckland by the Ulimaroa on Tuosday, when he said he had come to arrange a flight from Sydney to New Zealand. He fell from a window on the fourth floor of the New South Wales Aero Club's building in the city on to the roof of the verandah. He was carried through a window on the first floor and sent to a hospital in a serious condition. Captain Hughes, president of the Aero Club, states that Robertson called on him at the club to discuss his flight scheme. Robertson was closely questioned by Captain Hughes, who says he camo to the conclusion that many of his statements would not bear investigation. In the presence of witnesses Captain Hughes told his visitor ho considered he was an impostor, and that to safeguard tho interests of aviation ho would get into touch with tho police. Captain Hughes says Robertson then leapt out of the window' of his office. He struck the top of the oriel window on the next floor below, rebounded and crashed to tho verandah roof at the first floor level. When Captain Hughes and the visitor were discussing details of the proposed flight, the former says, he found the whole proposal vague. Robertaon was then questioned regarding statements which wero alleged to have appeared in New Zealand newspapers to the effect that tho Aero Club of Australia was going to provide him with a machine. Robertson denied having made such statements. Captain Hughes states that after Robertson had been further questioned he admitted that he had never been in a flying corps. Then as Captain Hughes turned to the telephone to ring up the police he says Robertson leaped through the window. When Captain Robertson arrived on the Ulimaroa he said ho was suffering from a nervous breakdown, and would take two weeks' holiday.