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Show I 1100IIIST SHOT FBI QUOI BUS TO DEATH Parachute Failed to Work and Horror Stricken Crowd Watches Boy Fall a Ttteusand Feet. New Haven, Conn Five thousand persons saw a boy fall I 000 feet from a balloon Wednesday afternoon and dash to pieces on top of a factory building In the outskirts of this city. He was Theodore French son of a lo. cal policeman, and was It years old. Doting tbe past week the city bill boards hava been plastered with an nouncement that John Mack an aero nam, who has been miking balloon ascensions all summer at Sailn Horn, would give an unusual exhibition Ills aralstnnt, French, Ihe posters said, would lie shot from a cannon aitnclml to the balloon when It was floating a mile over the illy The adxrllsemonts drew an tin-menac tin-menac crowd tu tbo point The iect.i-tors iect.i-tors had an opportunity to study tbo cannon, whlili was attached to the basket of Ihe balloon It was a metal rase large enough lo hold a parachute and an ordinary slsed man Whin closed n spring Inside released tbe mrarliute and the iasenger French fearlessly locked himself lit , 010 cannon and Ihe bulloon wns cut loose The lombined weight of tho cannon snd Ihe lioy Inside seemed lo siake It unmanageable When 1,000 feet up there was a Hash of smoke snd Ihe throngs running In the wako ef the balloon saw a dirk object shoot 4nwnnnrd with Incredible speed The parachute did not open French landed land-ed 011 top of the Mathiuhik Piano company's main fai lor) building Nearly every bono lu bis body was broken |