BALLOONIST KILLED.
DROPPED FROM £ ROOF. OVERCOME BY GAS. I* t. TRAGIC END TO A CARNIVAL. £■' (By Telegraph—Pres? Assn — CopyrtgM.) "■ (Australian PTess Assn.—United Service.) £2 (Rec. September 10, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 9. Percrval, a son of the famous balSloonist, Captain Harry Spencer, asJT, cended at a charity carnival at Rugby 'lat the close of a thanksgiving service. " The balloon suddenly dropped on the of the Rugby schoolmaster’s house. Percival hung on to the roof desperately until rescued by means of «“! a ladder. }Z The father ascended the roof to disentangle the balloon. He collapsed, *2 being probably overcome by the gas and dropped fifty feet head first, being Skilled instantly in the sight of a large crowd. Ambulance men and police rushed to the house wall and vainly tl attempted to break the fall.
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Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17503, 10 September 1928, Page 8
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