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Show HURL3 DEATH INTO SKATERS Airplane Minus Pilot, Hits Skaters on River Shrewsbury Red Dank, N. J., The plunge of a pllotless airplane Into a thronge of skaters on the Shrewbury river which resulted In the death of a women ond the serious injury to a man who tried to save her, was believed by the investigators Monday to have been caused by an unexpectd opening of a home made throttle. The airplane, In which James Oasey, ex-army aviator, was giving joy rides from the ice Sunday, leaped over its restraining blocks when the pilot whirled the propeller to start A gust of wind turned the roaring plane straight toward a group of near-; ly 1000 skaters, who had gathered to watch the start. The plane cut down with Its whirling propeller, Mrs. Anna Hounihan of Red Bank, who had been skating with her husband and two children. Her brother, Lawrence Conley, who leaped in front of the plane to push her to safety, lost his forearm in the whirring propeller. Casey was arrested, charged with manslaughter, and held In $1500 ball |