CLAMBERED INTO GAS CHAMBER.
FAMOUS HELMSMAN DEAD. (United Pre.. Aa.oci.tion—B, El.otrl. Talagraph—Copyright.) (Received February 28, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, February 27. Walter Sclierz, who was helmsman on two Zeppelin trans-Atlantic crossings, when ballooning over Friedrichshafen, climbed into the gas chamber to free some fouled ropes, and was asphyxiated.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18202, 1 March 1929, Page 9
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