KILLED BY EXPLOSION.
EXPERIMENT BY BOY.
ROCKET CAR PROPULSION.
(Received February 5, 5.5 p.m.) MELBOURNE. Feb. 5. A youth aged 17, Leslie Aitken, who was fired by a desire to emulate. the German experimenters in rocket propulsion of a car, was fatally injured by an explosion in a workshop at his homo in Preston.
The lad had been for some (imc studying the repbrts of oversea research workers, and was developing an idea of his own. He had taken a length of iron piping, filled it with au explosive, and fastened it in a vise.
A companion, Marcel MacMahon, who was assisting, left the workshop for a few moments. A violent explosion occurred. On hurrying back the youth found Aitken unconscious and terribly wounded. Fragments of the iron pipe were scattered all over the workship. The lad died in hospital without regaining consciousness.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20482, 6 February 1930, Page 11
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