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Show INVENTOR'S tIFE PRISONER ' PROVES TO BE FAItURE Venlco. Cal , Sept. 1S. An aerial "life-preserver" designed to float a man through space and land him without with-out Injury almost caused the death of C. V. Clark, Its inventor, yesterday. With the apparatus fitted to his arms and logs Clark leaped from the platform plat-form of a scepic railway, 75 feet high, Into the ocean off. Venlco pier. The apparatus qollapsed under his weight and he struck tho water with his fall unchecked, Life guards flsti-e'.l flsti-e'.l him out. He was not seriously injured. |