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Show FELL WITH AEROPLANE Chas. Rolls, Great En-, En-, glish Aviator, Meets Shocking Death Bournemouth .England, -July 12. first flying tournament of the vear was brought to a tragic close this morning by the dramatic death of tho most daring British aviator, thu Hon. Charles S. Rolls, third-yon of Lord Llangattock. lu tho presence of a great .company of spectators, a majority of whom , were women and children and many personal friends of the young aviator, the Wright biplane, on which he was flying, tell suddenly with terrific speed from a height of 100 feet It struck the ground clo6e to the crowded crowd-ed graud stind, smashed Into a tangled tan-gled mass, and, bofore the doc!ors and their assistants could reach tho spot, Rolls was dead. The event in which Rolls was competing com-peting vas for a prise for the aviator alighting nearest a given marl;. The goal was directly in front of the grandstand and where the spe-ctators were massed. He had risen to a good height, then shut off his motor and was gliding in a broad circle toward the mark. Without warning, the tall piece of the biplane snapped off. The machine gave a sudden lurch and the framework frame-work crumpled up in the air. When it struck the ground it was smashed to splinters. The doctors found that Rolls bad flittered a fractured skull. The wreck of the machine and twisted stavs surrounded sur-rounded the body, so that thero was difficulty In extricating it. Immediately aTter the result of Rolls' accident, the committee announced an-nounced that flying would be suspend-. suspend-. ed for the day Lord and Lady Llangattock! the 1 parents of RoIIb. did not witness the catastrophe. They were yachting long the coast and put In at Poole, near Rournemouth, this morning intending in-tending to go to the aviation meeting, but postponed going until afternoon. Audemars. the Swiss aviator, had a close shave while making a' trial flight oer the Bournemouth field. His monoplano overturned and descended swittly to'tho ground, but he escaped -without injury. Ctiptaln the Hon. Charles Stewart Rolls was yearg old and was one of the most popular young all-around sportsmen in England. At ballooning, at motoring and Inter lu the field of aviation, he had distinguished himself by hla utter fearlessness. Undoubtedly his crowning feat was bis rotid trip across the channel between be-tween Door and Calais in a Wright biplane on June 2 last Two Frenchmen, French-men, I.ouls Bleriot and Count DeLes-seps, DeLes-seps, already had crossed the channel chan-nel and Hubert Latham had almost succeeded. a Channel flying was at a discount in England, because it was considered an old story, and also because' National Na-tional pride suffered from the monopoly monop-oly of it by Frenchmen, when Rolls (lee trifled the entire kingdom by doubling the accomplishments of hlB predecessors. The distance between Dover and Calais Is twenty-one miles, and when Rolls did the round trip of forty-two n.lles In ninety mjnutes 1 without stopping, his performance, was a marvelous one,, both for dla-' tarce and time. Rolls was as modest as he was daring and received the congratulations congratula-tions whlth were showered on him almost al-most with embarrassment. In his youth. Rolls was one of the pioneers of motoring in England. He drove a motor car while the ordinanc e 1 was still In force that every self-propelled vehicle on the public roads must be preceded by a man carrying a rf.d flag toward pedestrians. In HOG he was one of 'ths best knovn I motor experts In Europe. j In U00 he won the gold medal In Hie thousand mile race. He was tho I 1 eprescntatlve of Great Britain in the J Gordon Bennett race of 19fi.r, and sev- eral times made world's records fori opeod. As a balloonist. Rolls made more ih.au 150 ascensions, crossed the chan- nc several times In balloons, and In I f 0. by a journey from Paris to Sher-lourni? Sher-lourni? and Norfolk, gained tho French Arro club's medal for the longest balloon journey. Rolls was intended for thu diplomatic diplo-matic service, but he showed such enthusiasm en-thusiasm for science and mechanics that his parents decided it was better tc let him become a good scientist than a poor diplomat. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge, Cam-bridge, where he specialized In ' engineering engi-neering and electricity. He was captain cap-tain of the Cambridge university bicycle bi-cycle team and gained his military title with the Eton volunteer battery. Rol's had written and lectured much on his hobby, particularly on 'he future of motoring. He al?o was an expert musician. He was the" tech-' tech-' nical niauaging director of the Rolls-Royco Rolls-Royco Motor company and also, cap tslu of the London section of the criuy motor reserve corps. |