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Show FALLS 2000 FEET IN AEROPLANE AND LIVES "Smiling" Pat O'Brien, a Veteran From the Front, Has Mishap in Texas. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, June 14 "Smiling" Lieutenant Pat O'Brien of Momence, 111., and later of the British Royal flying corps, who survived a battle bat-tle with four German planes, was taken prisoner, leaped from a fast moving train, wandered for more than two months through enemy territory, finally reaching Holland and safety, tonight is suffering from the second fall of his adventurous career, caused, according to observers, by taking liberties with a student training type of airplane at Kelly field. Apparently O'Brien's only injury after a 2000-foot fall in a nose dive, was a broken nose, but Kelly field physicians refused to allow him to leave this afternoon for Houston lest it develop de-velop that he also was injured internally. inter-nally. Two thousand feet from the ground the plane side-slipped and O'Brien was unable to right it. The machine landed nose downward in soft earth. He climbed out badly shaken and bleeding freely. |