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Show H BOY DROP8 FROM H BALLON TO DEATH BB Woodstock, Conn, Sept. 17 Thlr- BB teen- year-old George Homier, who Hf was holding a guy rope to a balloon BB while it was being inflated prepaid- BB tory to an ascension at a local fair BB this afternoon was suddenly carried B co fect I'1 the air and then dropped ,BJ to Instant death in front of tho grand Bj stand whero 5000 people wcro assem- BB "led. Bj In order to securo abetter hold on BB tho guy rope, during tho Inflation of Bj the balloon, tho boy wound tho rope HJ about his wrist sovaral times. When BB the balloonist, Harold Gates, of New- Hf buryport, Mass., started his ascension Bj the boy did not tfavo lltno'tct unwind4 Hf tho rope tod was carried swiftly up- Hf ward, dangling by ono hand. Oa.cs BB was not fiwrt-o of the boy's prodlca- Hf meat, until tho ropo had unwound It- H Belf, aSd tho boy waa dashed to his BE death. |