ACCIDENT IN CIRCUS.
WOMAN PERFORMER KILLED. FALL FROM HIGH TRAPEZE. MELBOURNE. Oct. 25. Miss Valma Schultz, aged 25, a trapeze artist, at, Wirth's Circus, failed properly to grip tlio hands of another woman artist who was swinging by her legs in mid-air from a trapeze. Miss Schultz struck a wall and missed I lie safety net. She fell into a corridor from a height of 30ft.., and was killed in the presence of hundreds of spectators.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20087, 26 October 1928, Page 13
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