ACROBAT CRASHES 40 FEET TO HIS DEATH.
I United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, March 31. Hans Jahn, aged thirty-five, a Ger man acrobat, was killed in a circus when he lost his balance and fell from the top of a forty-foot pole held or the shoulder of his brother Karl. The latter, seeing his brother start to fall leaped forward and threw himself on the ground as a cushion for Hans, but his back was broken and he died instand} 1 -..
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19034, 1 April 1930, Page 1
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