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Show NOT WELL KNOWN fc . IN CITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Aug. 18. C. H Molsaut. who flew across the English channel yesterday, although a Chicagoan hx birth, has not been here for a number num-ber of years, Victor Loiigheed, cpnsulting engineer engi-neer of, the Aero club of Illinois, said last nlshc that be hid been told that Moisant was born In Chicago. H said, however, that as an aviator ho was unknown in this city. On another Inquiry, trace was found, ,owcvr," of an adventurous young man named Jean Moisant who left Chicago for Central America a number num-ber of year8.ao. His noarent relative, Raphael Mol? ant, a shoemaker, said he had heard nothing of his nephew since word came that his love for excitement had gotten bim Into difflcultljs In a San Salvador revolution. . Moisant eald he would not be sun prised to find that the young man had gone to France. He also said that the name sometimes was spelled Mols-6ant |