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Show WOULD FLY; MAY NEVER WALK Fate Surely Hat Dealt Harshly With Inventor Who Had Planned Great Things. After having worked In vain for' BO years on an Invention which ho hoped would solvo tho problem of nvlntion, Frederick Merrill Shaw, eighty-seven years old, of 237 North Grand nvenuc, slipped on a banana peel nt Vlrst nnd Main streets yesterday morning and sustained Injuries from which physicians physi-cians at tho Hecelving hospital say ho can never permanently recover. "It's tho Irony of fate," tho old man said. "I have devoted nearly nil my llfo to my lnvontlon, which, when perfected, per-fected, would ln reality permit men to fly In the clouds with tho safety of birds, and hero I am on a hospital cot as the rosult of a simple accident on tho ground." Mr. Shaw Is Buffering from a frnc-tuned frnc-tuned limb, his left leg having been broken near tho nip. Owing to his, advanced years it Is not considered likely that ho will over be ablo to walk. While discussing tho accident and' his llfo work Mr. Shaw, who Is ono of tho city's well-known eccentric characters, char-acters, took from his pocket a sheet of paper on which was drawn a diagram dia-gram of thonlrmachinohohad labored on for so many years. Ho exhibited it with prldo, declaring If ho only had more tlrao and n llttlo money ho could yet perfect It. His devlco Is of tho famous Darius Grcon typo, providing hugo wings to bo operated 'by men birds. About twenty yenrs ago ho thought ho had finished his invention, and in giving a public demonstration, fell from tho roof of a two-story building build-ing and broko a number of bones. Upon three different occasions he attempted at-tempted to prove to the world that ho had mastered tho air problem, and each time fell to tho ground, twlco breaking the same limb that was fractured frac-tured yesterday. Los Angeles Times. |