| Show AVIATORS KILL KillMAN MAN FIGHTING FOR CONTROLS Pair air Jailed on Death Charge harg Denied ed Bail Bait Bailat at Hearing Hearin p jU By y United Pre Press muco MIMICO Ont Sept 17 11 William William William Wil Wil- liam Joseph y and Irwin Davis American aviators pleaded not guilty today when arraigned before before before be be- fore Magistrate Douglas Dougla Davidson on a charge of at manslaughter In in connection connection connection con con- with the midair killing of Leonard Koenecke e former major league baseball star Under orders from Attorney General General General Gen Gen- eral Arthur Roebuck the aviators aviators rs were refused bail ball and remanded to jail If convicted convicted- the fliers would fAce life Ufe imprisonment It was explained however that if it convicted the court could consider consider con con- sider the circumstances and order the aviators rema remanded ded indefinitely or for as s short a ur s leased The three men waged a hand to hand b battle in a airplane I Continued d' on P Pate Pue- e Two eTwo killed f h Y A Y a aPO i r PO OH j Leonard Koenecke BASEBALL STAR S1 AR ARSLAIN SLAIN IN PLANE I Continued from froin Pate PAle One e several thousand feet above Toronto ear Iy early today today Koenecke star outfielder of the National league was killed by Mul- Mul queeney the pilot who said sald that only by that mean means did he prevent a crash and the death of at all when Koenecke engaged in a fight with Davis a guest in the plane Crown authorities announced they we er p investigating r reports por that Koenecke planned to commit suicide suicide sui sui- sul- sul cide because he had been sent lent back to the minor leagues Koenecke the aviators said tried desperately desperately- to take over the con con- trots Koenecke depressed by his dismissal dismissal dis dis- dis- dis missal from from the Brooklyn Dodgers at StLouis St Louis Sunday arrived Intoxicated Intoxicated intoxicated in Detroit last night He chartered plane to take him to Buffalo and took Davis a professional parachute jumper along as his g guest est Pair Battle Over Toronto felt the plane quiver and jerk though it was a calm night perfect for flying He looked back Koenecke and Davis Davis Davis Da Da- Da- Da vis were flaying one another with their fists jumping around arou In the narrow frail trail cabin screamed commands to halt Davis stopped but Koenecke Koe Koe- didn't he told police He shot the plane up several thousand feet then l left tt his controls and joined the fight For a number umber of minutes the plane jerked about with no hand at its jerked the fire extinguisher from its rack and brought it down on Koenecke's Koenecke head nead He He- then raced back to the control controls con con- trots leveling the plane of off less than thanA ft A thousand feet teet above the suburb of at New Toronto Koenecke Dies Dietl When he landed a a. few minutes later on the Long Branch race racetrack racetrack tr track k Koenecke was dead Police Lieutenant G. G Joy announced he had been killed b by by the blow from the fire extinguisher The The plane was damaged slightly in the landing Koenecke an erratic but brilliant t performer on ott the diamond was 29 years old and h had d been in professional baseball since 1927 The Giants Gi Gi- ants anti bought hi him In 1932 for from Indianapolis of the American association on I 1 couldn't do anything else police It was a a. a question of three lives lives' for one So heavy was the blow blow- of the extinguisher ex ex- r that one side of Koenecke's Koenecke's Koe- Koe i s skull was crushed Bitten Severely still was badly shaken when he landed the plane Davis showed the marks of his is fight with the husky athlete known in all the circuits in which he had played as asa asa asa a pugnacious aggressive e player He had been beaten and bitten se ze- ze verely The fight started an hour after the plane left Detroit said Koenecke first had sat beside him himin in the pilots pilot's seat When he interfered with the the- piloting he ordered ordered ordered or or- dered him into the back seat with Davis Within a very few minutes the fight was on said he heard Davis cry out repeatedly in pain when Koenecke sank his teeth into his shoulders and arms The Th men were wrestling furiously on the floor of at the cabin It t was then desperate in the knowledge that a a. few more seconds would wreck the plane that left his controls and waded in with the fire extinguisher Floor Spattered The interior o of the plane b bore re evidence of at the wild struggle high in th the clouds The floor was wa spattered spattered spat spat- with blood Seat coverings were torn and equipment was wrecked For what seemed like hours Mul Mul- queeney told me he sat at his controls controls con con- trots and watched Koenecke battle with Davis a a. much smaller man manthan manthan manthan than the baseball star atar Police Sergeant Sergeant Ser Sex geant Kidd told the United Press shouted to to- the mento men mento to stop their fighting lighting or the plane would crash but neither seemed to hear bear him Koenecke and Davis rolled over the floor of the plane their combined combined com corn weight swinging the ship snip from side to side Koenecke was growling growling growling growl growl- ing and sinking his teeth into Davia Davis Davis' Davis Davis' Da Da- Da- Da vis' vis flesh The smaller man Mul Mul- queeney told me fought grimly to stave of off the Jarg larger r mans man's attack Noses Earthward From time to time told me he got getup u up and left his controls controls controls con con- to separate the twp men but bul was WM forced to leap back to o the pilot seat when the plane nosed earthward earthward earthward earth earth- ward dangerously near crashing The fight had been going on for what we figure to have been about an hour when the two fighting men rolled toward the nose of at the ship The plane lurched crazily said he reached out out with one hand while he kept the plane on a a. level keel with the other grabbed a heavy fire extinguisher and smashed KoC Ko Koenecke ecke over the head For some time after the fight light Davis Davis Davis Da Da- Da- Da vis lay exhausted on the floor of ol the plane while righted the plane DETROIT Sept 17 UP Leon UP-Leon- Leon Leonard ard Koenecke Brooklyn baseball player slain in an airplane over Toronto Toronto Toronto To To- was removed from an American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean Airlines plane h here re last night after alter he had created a disturbance aboard the ship inbound from St St. StLouis Louis Loui officials disclosed toda today |
