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Show FALLS SEVENTY FEET: IS CRUSHED TO DEATH By Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 10r James TI. Wilson, known a3 a daring stceplo.iack, fell seventy feet yesterday from a smokestack which he was painting at Twenty-fifth and LaSalle. 3To died shortly after he had Cfeccn taken to a hospital. Wilson intended this job to be his last hero boforo starting for Oklahoma, where ho was to paint smokestacks. He was sitting on a board rest suspended sus-pended from the top of tho stack bT largo hooks when one of tho hooks slipped off the smokestack. Wilson created a sensation some yeaTs ago vhon he cssa.yed to "shin up" tho flat iron .building in New York City. He did not ascend more than oight stories before tho police ordered him to come down. |