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A MURDER (New Yorl There is a man living today who (has gone through the whole thrilling, horror-filled experience of killing a mar. in the cloud? The marks of grief and woo on his face and his shattered nerves tell the whole story. Robert F. Scanlon was known through the Middle West as one of the most daring and even foolhardy aeronauts and parachute Junipers in all the country, ltarely was a day too windy or a district too dangerous for him to make his ascension according to contract and on time. Then in a day, in an hour, it was all changed. It was during Fair Week at Cah'Okla, 111. People from all the surrounding country and towns had come in on the last day of the week to make merry when Scanion was billed to make a balloon ascension and parachute leap. He himself superintended the lilting of the loalloon with hot air and coal gas by throwing light wood and coal oil on the fire in the furnace a few yards from the balloon. The gas was sent Into the canvass bag through a tunnel and a pipe, the mouth of the balloon over the opening The gas bag began to expand, |>ufllng up in little lerks almost like 4>egan to life Its head off the ground the beating of a great heart. As it the people packed in closer and shouted out in excitement. Around the balloon like a fringe wrro rows of of bags of sand to weight it down, and In addition, men from the cr^wd were pressed in to cling to the guy ropes that the last possible mitre of gas might be pot in before it should be released for Its shoot up Into the air. The llalloon Is Inflated. Slowly the balloon rose until Its tail brushed the pround bearinp itself for a flipht like some treat creature of the air. Scanion in his tiphts and spanples had to keep running from one side of the balloon to the other and then out to the furnace to give orders to his assistants. It was hard work and the delay of a second meant that something might go wrong and that the asenslon might be a failure. Little by little he ordered the men standing around the ballon, their arms upstretched holding the guy lines,to slack their ropes. 'As the great bag tuged the men would he lifted off their feet, the balloon rolling from side to side as thougn drunk. Stretched out on the ground was thd parachute fastened to the bag of the balloon so that when the balloon ehot up It would be swinging directly under It, fastened only by one rope. A cord led up to a knife so that when the aeronaut wanted to descend he would but have to jerk the cord, cutting the rope and float down to earth and safety. Under the parachute the trapeze bar was hanging, a bright brass rod on which Scanion was to hang and go through his gymnastics while being wafted to the clouds. As the bag straightened up It began to tug so that the farmers and townspeople swinging on it for balst began to grow afraid and anxious release their hold. "Hey, Mac," he called to his as tant, "throw in another chunk!' Mac knew what that meant, and on the fire tossed a small bucket of coal oil. A blaze of fire leaped through the tunnel and the b.v'uon tore itself out of the hands of ihe ballast men. The balloon woblr.eo up. A muttering shout ran around tho crowd for the tension was at its height, and a man trom their midst was about to be whisked into the heavens. Women .threw up their hands and shouted out words of warning. "Hold on tight,'.' called out an old man leaning on a gnarled cane for support. "Oh, I know he will be killed, ' sobbed a woman, turnihg away her eyes. "Iyet Go. or You Will l?o Killed!" But a 11 this was met with at every performance and served in no way to unstring Scanion's nerves. All his mind and energies were bent on clearing the buildings and treetops. "Let her go, hoys." he called out over the exclamations of the people and the cracking of the fire. "Cut loose." Running back Scanion picked up the brass trapeze rod and seated himself on it, one hand on each rope. Then as the balloon slipped up into the air he ran forward under It, the long-folded paraclnrte tugging him gently, thus saving himself from being dragged over the ground. Theri had not been a hitch,' the weather was perfect, he was getting a goou start. The ascent seemed no different from a dozen others he had made. But there Is where the risk of a balloon jumper comes In. He never knows what moment something will happen. Suddenly a drunken man burst through the crowd and threw his arms around Scnnlon. He was a big muscular man, and In his daz/ed eyes was-the look of an Intoxicated man who cares not the least what happens. Scanlon had to grasp the ropes on the ends of the ar to be kept from being pulled ofl IN THE AID 111 i iijli run k World.) backward. The parachute bar was Just be'.ng lifted off the ground, and Scanlon had no way to flgnt back except by kicking. "Let loose, let loose," he yelled frantically, but the man only tightened his grip and buried his face In Scanion's spangles, afraid to look down. For a moment the crowd stood too horrified to move, then several of the men coming to themselves rushed out and sprang wildly at the drunken man's dangling feet. But they missed and In a second more the baloon had 1 risen above the tops of the trees and the two men over the heads of the people. "Let go or you will be killed, ' cried Scanlon, squirming in the man's grasp and kicking as best ho could. But the man held on grimly without answering a word. The horror of it all flashed thro.!j,h Scanion's mind and made him fight now resolutely. Here he was sitting on a brass rod twenty feet under the balloon, riding a baloon built for only 150 pounds, plus the weight of the parachute, and he himself was invor xx*ni rrL t Ktr ton TKo m clinging to his arms must weigh at least 170 pounds. To make the ascent this way would be absolute folly. So he redoubled '.lis energies toward kicking off the unwelcome passenger. Letting go of one hand he clung to one swinging, bending rope and with the free hand tried to tear apart the man's fingers kicking him madly on the thighs with his heels. "Drop, drop, you can make it yet," called out Scanion, almost out of breath. But the man paid no heed, holding on as grimly as death itself. Catching hold of one of the man's hands ! Scanion tore it away. The man freed his hand again and fastened it in another place. Surging back and forth, Scanion tried to wriggle out of the man's grasp, the combined weight sending a wave clear up to the balloon like a quick Jerk travelling along a rope. Breathing with quick intakes of breath, partly from exhaustion and partly from the effect of the liquor, the man clung to Scanion without speaking a word. One idea was firmly fixed in his mind, and that was that he must hold on tight, and with the grip and determination of a drowning man he carried out his idea. 1 n ~ Ut- 1 1 41.- ? * il-yj i ailih II lO lUUlvI UJI Lilt? IllilU 3 back Scanion got It against the man's face by a quick surge and pushed madly and blindly, but the man buried his face In the other side of Scanion's l>ack and the short advantage was gone. Rapidly but with stately dignity the balloon rose into the air each second adding to the distance that one of them must fall. Scanion's hands sank deep into the bar ropes and they came down almost to the level of the bar, his head was pulled back until he could see nothing but the drooping skirts of the parachute and the bulging sides of the balloon over him. Squirming and kicking, he struggled till his breath was almost spent, fighting against time, knowing that each moment the balloon was getting higher and higher. Finally, twisting his head around, Scanion says that they were fully five hundred feet high and that a drop meant Instant death. He could see the crowd standing almost as he had left it, scaicely making a sound, all faces tense and set, silent watcheis of the struggle for life in mid-air. A Single Chance of Escape. Suddenly the man pave a lunge and flung one arm over the bar, then in spite of all Scanlon could do he swung hack and hooked a knee over It, like an acrobat In a show. Scanion looked down Into the man's face. It was wrinkled into lines of fear and determination. His eyes were wide open and staring, but afraid to look down. There was not the slightest sign of drunkenness about, the face, the terrible struggle had completely cleared his mind. Scanion could see that the man was possessed of but one idea and that was to hold madly to the swinging bar. His whole strength and his whole mind were set in carrying this out. As Scanion looked down at the man he turned over every possible chance to escape. To drop meant destruction. The parachute was built to carry only one man. Possibly one of them might go down In the parachute and the other ride the balloon down by waiting till the night air chilled the gas. It was a straw, but worth seizing. ) "Ail right?it's too late for you to dron off now " snirl Qconlnn err*? fU at I "Swing yourself up on this bar. | The man looked up at him more j like a wild animal than a human being, like a dog trying to understand just what his master means. So firmly fixed in his mind was the idea i that he must cling to the bar that he could not comprehend what Scanion I meant. i "Climb tip. damn you!" growled > Scanion. "We've got to stick it out i together." The Mght of understanding broke :[into the man's eyes, and with rigid, trembling muscles he drew himself up on the bar and wound his arm around the supporting rope. The two sat crowded shoulder to shoulHop fool n <r nrltK onoeoalw V4V* .UV...O, ? ?V4* oval VCI/ VUUUgU room to move. t "Don't hurt me, whined the man, speaking for the first time. "Shut up and don't shake the balloon, snapped Scanlon. The man kept his eyes on Scanlon, afraid to look toward the earth, "is It very?very far?" I "You'll think so going down!" Scanlon shot back. The Fight for Fife. The man whimpered and shrank the rope without looking down. "What are you going to do about it?" demanded Scanlon, taking this chance to punish the Intruder. The danger now did not seem so imminent. and so Scanion was bound to Impress on the man what he had done. The man whlempered and shrank away from the aeronaut. The fight was gone out of him; he dreaded the upbraiding more than the kicking. "What made you do It?" demanded Scanion. "I thought?I don't know"? A slight ripping sounded over th?ir ' heads. Scanion became electrified, but to the unwelcome passenger It meant nothing. Scanlon glanced uo. His worst fears were confirmed. One of the ropes fastening on the " sides of the balloon and supporting 1 the parachute had ripped down a few inches and the gas and smoko were pouring out. The bar rocked bacK and forth again and tho rent enlarged. In a moment it might tear larger and the two would go rocking swiftly downward. The only chance for safety was for one of them to go in the parachute? and self-preservation is the first law j of nature. "Don't rock the balloon," shouted 1 Scanion fiercely, although the man was sitting quietly enough. The man said nothing. "Why don't you look down?" demanded Scanion with all the fierce- ' ness that fighting for one's own iife brings up in one. The man watched Scanion humbly a moment and then turned his eyes down. Wrapping his legs together, Scanion lunged at the man and tore madly at his fingers gripped around the rope and the end of the bar. Silently the two fought, their breaths coinings quick and fast, their nails bringing great gashes on each other's hands. The bar and the parachute rocked to the struggle, but that alone told the story of the struggle to the birds. Finally Scanion got the man's fingers loose from the rope, and in one surge of strength pushed him off backward. The other hand of the man. gripped around the bar, undoubted, and without a sound he went whirling through the air, turning grotesquely, his arms striking out as if they expected to catch on something. Fascinated. Scanion could not keep his eyes off the whirling body. So squarely under him was It that but for the turnings It did not seem to be moving. It seemed to be resting in space. As it got farther away it ceased to struggle, falling like a dead mass. A sparrowhawk darted toward it curiously, then turned away. Then the body struck the ground? in a small pasture lot. The sound which travels upward more easily came to him with sickening clearness. It seemed as though he was only a few feet away. Hut look as he might, Scanion could not see where the body had struck. It seemed to have buried itself in the ground. His courage almost gone, Scanion pulled the rope that severed the parachute from the l>aloon and dropped to the ground. When the people came running up he was so weak that he could scarcely stand alone. That evening he was arrested, and later stood trial for the man's death, but was acquitted on the ground of selfdefense. Hut it was Scanlon's last ascension. He is now afraid as death of a balloon, and will scarcely look at a flying machine in the air. His nerves are completely gone, and as he talks he keeps moving his hands aimlessly around over his lap and knees. He makes his living during the summer in small towns and during the wintor in vaudeville by doing high diving. "It's the nights that make me miserable. he said, buttoninir and tin but toning his roat. "I can stand the daytime pretty well, for there's people around then. Hut the nights! I always see something falling, falling and waving its hands." After All. "I have been a drudge all my life," he complained. "Well," the unsympathetic old bachelor replied, "it's largely your own fault. Why did you ever get married? Look at me." "Yes. I'm looking at you. That's what reconciles me to my condition. After all, there are worse things than drudges in the world."Chicago Record-Herald. IJoesn't Need the Coin. "Five hundred dollars a night for 100 nights," was an ofTer telegraphed from a lvceum bureau in San Francisco to Representative Cannon, of IIlnio, the retiring Speaker of tnc House Tuesday. "Too busy,' was In substance the reply telegraphed back hy Mr. Cannon. The ofTer prescribed that Mr. Cannon could name i his own speaking dates ou the clr> cult. 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