Show Titled Tided British Couple Killed In California Plane PIane Crash rasi Lord and n l Lady Plunket Pilot Die Third Third of I Party Injured Near Hearst Ranch SAN LUIS OBISPO Cal CaI Feb 25 UP Two UP-Two Two titled English guests and the pilot who w was s flying them to visit William Randolph Randolp Hearst in one of the publishers publisher's airplanes died in a flaming eras crash i in a fog on Hearst's San Simeon r ranch near ear here j The dead Baron Terence Con Conyngham y n g ham Plunket 38 sixth baron of at Plunket I member of ot the Irish parliament and close friend of King George of England Lady Dorothe Mabel Plunket 38 daughter of ot Fanny Fanny- Ward the actress actress actress ac ac- ac- ac tress heiress to a fortune fortune fortune for for- tune and waiting lady-in-waiting to Que Queen n Elizabeth Pilot P. P J. J Tex Phillips of Burbank Burbank Bur- Bur bank Ca Cal a motorcycle policeman who flew for lor Hearst in iii his spare time A third guest was seriously fn In James Lawrence son son-of S Sir Walter Valter Lawrence a London contractor contractor contractor con con- tractor was burned and one of othis h ankles was fractured The plane overshot the private privat airport on the ranch tanch yesterday af afternoon aft aft- and cr crashed hed about four fou miles from fro i the big hilltop mansion mansio where Hearst r t tand and other friends friend were waiting to welcome them on Page Pace Two S- S Column On 1 f rJ Y w w COUPLE ei sw r. r jo a DIE IN CRASH 4 wa w- w I W a lit w Continued from Page One 5 Quests Guests rushed down the winding 2 I drives iv from the ranch to the wreck J a Runs Into nto Fog r Z took of off with his passengers k gers ers from rom Union air terminal atIt ata at att It a t Burbank about 3 p P P- Pm m m. min in a single single- motored Colored plane owned by the thet t San francisco FrancIsco Examiner one of Hearts Heart's M 2 newspapers Near the end of or the mile mile w flight he encountered encountered a seacoast fog and missed It the ranch ch airPort by about one ww l r mIle Wile n Too late the pilot apparently w JJ lw discovered the error and turned back ack but M one wIng scraped the round ground roun J as he banked through the thew t w fog log The Tho big all metal all metal plane heeled over and burst into flames t Lord and Lady Plunket were I t trapped In the blazing cabin cab The i V Pilot was thrown a short distance from the plane I Bodies of the baron and baroness w Were Vere removed after the flames subsided sub- sub t sided and were taken to a local I mortuary 8 C To Spend Winter w JJ Lord rd and Lady Plunket arrived w In m the United States aboard the Y I liner Normandie two weeks ego ago and flew ew to the Pacific coast to spend the winter near their friends Doug Doug- las Fairbanks the retired motion picture star and his wife the former fort for for- t mer Lady Ashley They rented at a ato to t Beverly Hills mansion from William Haines former film actor Haines C is now In London e Lord Plunket succeeded to his w barony in 1920 The year old year old y title now pass passes s to his eldest son Hon Patrick Terence William S Span an i Plunket who is 15 years of age His born American-born wife was Dorothe Mabel daughter of the ther r late Joseph Lewis a Transvaal diamond dia dia- w jI mond magnate and Fanny Ward I the actress known as the perennial perennial peren nial coal flapper At 17 she was married married mar mar- ried lied to Captain Jack Barnato who y died a year later and left her a forM for 1 M tune of more than Pretty and andi vivacious she was considered one of Europe's best dancers and one of th the dressed best women in London society |