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Show SENTENCED TO DEATH. Hubert Latham, the famous Anglo-French aviator, was killed by being gored to death by a wounded buffalo in the wilds of Africa. He had escaped death in the air to meet the final summons in a most unexpected way. Death seems to find in the aviators a shining mark. Of tho thirty or forty airmen who thrilled the world with their exhibition flights three years ago, only four are left. Saturday Victor Smith, holder of the world's amateur record for 'aeroplane speed, was instantly. killed when his machine fell near Palo Alto, California. A gust of wind blew him into eternity. Criminals, with records indicating an incurable mania to do wrong, and murderers shguld be sentenced to experiment three years with airships and aeroplanes, instead of being imprisoned or executed. If they survive the perilous task, no one should deny them the right to live, because 1,000 times in jeopardy should satisfy satis-fy even retributive justice; if they fall, then it can be said that their lives were sacrificed to science. The average man would bid his family goodbye if ordorcd to ride on 'the wings of the man-made birds of the air.. |