Show AERONAUT AERONAUT MEETS TRAGIC END ENDi i I Lifeless Body of Paul Nocquet Found by Friends on Long Island SAD BLOW TO BALLOONING j t I o Ue Ui lieu Held to Decide Cnut c cof of Jr Belgian Bc U Was WasH 1 H Prominent Sculptor New v ew York April 4 4 Ballooning In 11 America has received recel a n black eye ee from whIch It It Is hardly har ly likely Ikel to recover reco for fora or orL a x L long lime iliac to come comae as the thc result of or oftie death of or Paul ct Ihu hi tie untimely he thc young Belgian sculptor and aeronaut acron- acron lut tut who made a balloon baloon ascension a from mut his this city la last t evening c ills His balloon was In good conel early carly today tod oun m on Jones' Jones beach Gr South Great South at-South Hay ta Long ong Island hiland and al tonight his body hotly was ere reco on Colt Cott Col island Islan live five miles mies rom from where shem-e th the balloon baloon was found h by Captain Smith of the thc IC life saving tvIng Ing corps corp er a search which la lasted lcd th the entire lay Oy ay an and well Ino Into litto the night From the time that thal Nocquet started a search had ha been begun It being be- be eyed that he had lan landed e all al rl right but tad ad lost himself In the sand sn drifts of or ortho tho ho lie lonely section of Long Island In 1 which the balloon baloon came to earth rind Ild Body In Sand Suhl V I Footprints leading shoreward tl QI from flom the balloon baloon were welo e believed to Indicate fn that he had emerged from from his hla car all allright allright al right rl hl and an hac It 11 was it not 1101 until his hl boty body had ha hab b bet n foun found and po positively lt cl l Identified that the members of time the Aero Acro ero club eluh of CW York admitted that he could have ha I Isi em-Isi med I Whether or ot not nol Nocquet was drowned drowned drown drown- ed el or 01 died lc from fm heart hearl failure allure a as a re result resul ye- ye suit sult of his exertion will wi be le determined sul h by 13 an autopsy which will wl be bc held as lS goon Boon as possible His ills friends s in the club arc are Inclined to the thc belief that when he ho landed it was iran dark k all beleC an and he lie lost his iva Wo way In tiLe the sands an s and an wandered wan ere about until he reached z the time place his hoty hotly body wa wa found an and where he lie fell fel exhaust exhausted an and amid perished from front expo exposure ur The lal latter r solution so- so so o- o lution lulon seems to 0 be the most cc credible litO tory History of Paul o Paul was born botn In Jim Brussels Bm and began studying ln Belgium In an painting under Jean J an lot when he lie hewa wa was 14 it I- I years old olti A sho short time afterward ncr after ward he took look up sculpture Ho lIe 10 was 31 men mem graduated K HS as ono of or the thc youngest youngest- nn au ab c In the alon alon in Paris laTh and t con scon afterward d foOte up Ul the tho subject of ballooning ballooning- on which h he ha has Imas written cn a number ot of o essays c a He lie Beat was at one of the only three tints artists o of were members of lh h tue Pat Paris salon the tho others blin being Augustus St. St t. t Gau ens and andI I lun When hon was wal It U years old he hewon 11 won the grand brand prize of Belgium ns as 11 a H sculptor arid and ant also a three years years' In Paris Paris- Paris I Planned fil Trip Acro eros eros- ro Oct Ocean I About a year car ago a o he came to ew York because he lie beleve believed the United 1011 Held for tor a larger States presented sculptors Ho lie lo ha had made a number of balloon ascensions and two years ear ago aco I haloon the Atlantic ocean trip over planned a o cr from Prance France to this county but hut It tell fel eli i through because of or lack lac of funds fund Cun i. i I In Iii n August l 1105 OG he Into Inlo fame fanie by br modelling President Roosevelt noo CH l Roosevelt Roose In Imi clay and calling the thc mo model Hunter He sent nt a aI velt elt tho the Mighty le vel copy opy of oC It IL to the President wh who wa waI was I I greatly amused d aX at aIt It and amI sent Sont hm a aj aI I j complimentary reat al letter Another J of f hl his called cabled Effort has ha also at- at atI attracted I attention |