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Show Boy Aviator Dashed to Death. Salida, Colo. Walter Archer, a 17-year-old boy of this city, plunged 700 feet to his death Saturday afternoon in an aeroplane of his own construction. construc-tion. The lad had been experimenting experiment-ing with air craft for some time, but had kept his researches a secret and very few people knew of his invention. inven-tion. His machine was unique by reason rea-son of, the fact that it was probably the first electric propelled aeroplane in which an aviator ever made a flight. His parents knew nothing of his proposed flight. |