MISTAKEN FOR I.R.A. TERRORIST
Aviator Killed as Result Of Blow
bulled Press Association—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright LONDON, June 20 A verdict that death was due to a fall as a result of the blow on the jaw was returned at the inquest on Captain Nicholas Comper, the airman, who was found unconscious at Hythe. A witness testified that Compel lighted fireworks in the street and a
man walked over and struck him on the jaw. The assailant alleged that Comper said: "I'm an LR.A. man The assailant thought that he was setting oft a bomb. Captain Comper designed the Comper Swift machine, which neld the England-Australia record in 1931
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21378, 22 June 1939, Page 9
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109MISTAKEN FOR I.R.A. TERRORIST Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21378, 22 June 1939, Page 9
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