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Show CO-ED JUMPS FR(M PLANE Young' Woman Bent On Taking Tak-ing Her Own Life Makes Fatal Leap. LINCOLN, Nebr.. July 8. (I .Ill-Determined .Ill-Determined on death. Alberta i Brenkenhoff, 21, a young University j of Nebraska co-ed, decided on the most modern means of suicide a , leap from an airplane hundreds of feet in the air. . She was the second person known to have chosen an airplane jump as a suicide gesture, one woman having hav-ing killed herself that way at New York airport last year. Engages Plana Alberta was fairly 'well known about the spacious campus of the University of Nebraska and up until un-til yesterday fellow students thought she was content with her life. But yesterday she rided a taxi-cab taxi-cab and ordered the driver to take her U the flying field. There she asked the driver to wait 20 minutes. In event she did not return the driver was to go back to the city. She engaged an airplane piloted by Peter Orr for a short flight. Orr as customary, strapped the girl to the cockpit ant soon the plane roared away on the . "death journey." jour-ney." Once they gained altitude, Orr noticed the young co-ed. She had loosened the safety belt and slowly was climbing over the cockpit. Forgetting For-getting the plane for a moment Orr reached 'over and doughty pushed the girl back to the seat. He worked fast, for already the plane had begun to show effects of not being controlled and-Orr had to regain his controls. But as Orr settled back he watched in horror as the young girl again clambered to the side of the cockpit and without hesitation leaped off into space. Her body was found half imbedded im-bedded in the soft ground hundreds of feet beneath and the coroner pronounced the case suicide. |