TYPIST'S TRAGIC FATE
How a girl's tight skirt played a pavt in a Brooklands flying tragedy was described at the inquest last month at Weybridge, Surrey, on Miss Kathleen Stalker, aged 24, a shorthand typist. • Miss Stalker was one o£ a party of members of the Surbiton branch of the Junior Imperial League visiting Brooklands. When about to enter a waiting aeroplane for a flight, she was hampered bv her tight skirt, and the pilot suggested she should try the other side of the machine, where there was a step. Running rouna the front of the machine, Miss Stalker was killed by a blow on the head from the propeller. The tragedy was demonstrated by witnesses at the inquest with the aid of a toy aeroplane. The dead girl's mother told the coroner that she did not blame anyone for the accident. The jury returned a verdict of death by misadventure, and exonerated the Brooklands Flying Club.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22632, 25 July 1935, Page 15
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