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A MURDER (New Yoi There is a man living today who (has gone through the whole thrilling, horror-filled experience of killing a man in the clouds. The marks of grief and woe on his face and his chattered nerves tell the whole story. Robert F. Scanion was known through the Middle West as one of the most daring and even foolhardy aeronauts and parachute jumpers in all the country. Rarely 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 Cahokia, 111. People from all the sur rounding 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 Hiring of the :i>alloon with hot air and coal gas by throwing light wood and coal oil 011 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 month of the balloon over the opening The gas bag began to expand, jiufilng up in little lerks almost like began to life its head off the ground the beating of a great heart. As it the people packed in closer and shout ed out in excitement. Around tne Walloon like a fringe were rows of of bags of sand to weight it down, and in addition, men from the crowd were pressed in to cling to the guy ropes that the last possible mitre of gas might be got in before it should the released for its shoot up into the air. The Halloon is Inflated. Slowly the balloon rose until its tail brushed the ground bearing itself for a flight like some groat creature of the air. Scanion in his tights and spangles ' 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 asension might be a failure. Little hy little he or dered 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 be lifted off their feet, the balloon rolling from side to side as thougn drunk. Stretched out on the ground was the parachute fastened to the bag of the balloon so that when the balloon ?hot up it would be swinging directly tinder 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 bal\st began to grow afraid and anxious o release their hold. "lley, 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 the ballast men. The balloon wobb.ea up. A muttering shout ran around the crowd for the tension was at its height, and a man lrom their midst was about to he whisked into tht heavens. Women threw up their hands and shouted out words of warning. "Hold on tight," called out an old inan leaning on a gnarled cane for support. "Oh, I know he will be killed, ' sobbed a woman, turning away her eyes. "Let Co, or Von Will he Killed!** Hut all 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. "Lot 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 parachute tugging him gently, thus saving himself from being dragged over the ground. Titers 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. IlUt tnere IB whbi-b U1U riBiv ui n balloon jumper comes in. lie never knows what moment something will happen. Suddenly a drunken man burst through the crowd and threw hi* Arms around Scanion. He was a big muscular man, and In his dazed eyes was the look of an Intoxicated man who cares not th< least what happens. Scanion had t< grasp the ropes on the ends of tin ir to be kept from being pulled of IN THE AIR rk World.) I i backward. The parachute bar was just being lifted off the ground, and Scanion : had no way to fight back except by I kicking. I "Let loose, let loose," he yelled ! frantically, but the man only tightened his grip and buried his. face in ffr-nnlrm'a snanerles. afraid to look i ? ~ -*?"?' I down. For a moment the crowd stood too j horrified to move, then several of the ( men coming to themselves rushed out and sprang wildly at the drunken T man's dangling feet. But they missed j and in a second more the baioon had risen above the tops of the trees and the two men over the heads of che g people. ^ "Let go or you vrill be killed, ' \ cried Scanion, squirming in the man's grasp and kicking as best he could, e But the man held on grimly without answering a word. The horror of it all flashed through 1 Scanion's mind and made him fight t now resolutely. Here he was sitting n on a brass rod twenty feet under I * -? 1 1 ? l... t U C/N M the haiioon, ruling a uaiuuu uuhl iui ouly 150 pounds, plus the weight of s the parachute, and he himself was t over weight by ten pounds. The man i clinging to his arms must weigh at F least 170 pounds. a To make the ascent this way would * i be absolute folly. So he redoubled his energies toward kicking off the s unwelcome passenger. Letting go of one hand he clung to one swinging, 0 bending rope and with the free hand a tried to tear apart the man's fingers ? kicking him madly on the thighs with his heels. v "Drop, drop, you can make it yet," s called out Scanion, almost out of breath. But the man paid no heed, holding n on as grimly as death itself. Catching hold of one of the man's hands Scanion tore it away. The man freed a his hand again and fastened it in an- j other place. Surging back and forth, g Scanion tried to wriggle out of the n man's grasp, the combined weight t sending a wave clear up to the bal- p loon like a quick jerk travelling along c a rope. Breathing with quick in- b takes of breath, partly from exhaus- b tion and partly from the effect of the r liquor, the man clung to Scanion t< without speaking a word. One idea b was firmly fixed in his mind, and that fi was that he must hold on tight, and 0 with the grip and determination of a b drowning man he carried out his n idea. , d Working his hand up the man's v hack Scanion got it against the man's ii face by a quick surge and pushed a madly and blindly, but the man bur- t ied his face in the other side of Scanion's l>ack and the short ad- b vantage was gone. s Rapidly but with stately dignity f the balloon rose into the air each 11 second adding to the distance that s one of them must fall. Scanion's e hands sank deep into the bar ropes 11 and they came down almost to the v level of the bar, his head was pulled back until he could see nothing but * the drooping skirts of the parachute v and the bulging sides of the balloon 0 over him. Squirming and kicking, 1 he struggled till his breath was al- 1 most spent, fighting against time, " knowing that each moment the bal- ^ loon 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, scarcely making a sound, all v faces tense and set, silent watoheis g of the struggle for life in mid-air. A Single Chance of Esca|>e. d Suddenly the man gave a lunge and flung one arm over the bar, then j in spite of all Scanion could do he i swung*back and hooked a knee over } it, like an acrobat in a show. a Scanion looked down Into the y man's face. It was wrinkled Into a lines of fear and determination. His r eyes were wide open and staring, but [ afraid to look down. There was not t the slightest, sign of drunkenness [ about the face, the terrible struggle had completely cleared his mind. e Scan ion could see that the man was i possessed of but one idea and that ( was to hold madly to the swinging j bar. His whole strength and his f whole mind were set In carrying this ? out.. As Seanion looked down at the man ho 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 1 the night air chilled the gas. It was a straw, hut worth seizing. | "All right?It's too late for you to /irrm off now." said Scanion gruffly. 1 1 "Swing yourself up on this bar. I The man looked up at him more like a wild animal than a hpman bcl.ing, 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 ho < could not comprehend what Scanlon ' I meant. l "Climb irp, damn you!" growled > Scanlon. "We've got to stick it out > together." , 3 The Mgh-t of understanding broke rjtato 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 shoulder facing, with scarcely enough room to move. "Don't hurt me, whined the man, speaking for the first time. "Shut up and don't shake the balloon, snapped Scanion. The man kept his eyes on Scanion, afraid to look toward the earth. "Is [t very?very far?" "You'll think so going down.'" Scanion shot back. The Fight for Jdfe. The man whimpered and shrank ihe rope without looking down. "What are you going to do about t?" demanded Scanion, taking this ihance to punish the intruder. The langer now did not seem so immi* ^ * i a a. ~ lent, ana so ocanion was uuunu iu mpress on the man what he had lone. The man whismpercd and shrank iway from the aeronaut. The fight vas gone out of him; he dreaded the lpbraiding more than the kicking. "What made you do it?" demandid Scanion. "I thought?I don't know"? A slight ripping sounded over their leads. Scanion became electrified, >ut to the unwelcome passenger It neant nothing. Scanion glanced up. lis worst fears were confirmed. One of the ropes fastening on the ides of the balloon and supporting he parachute had ripped down a few nches and the gas and smoko were louring out. The bar rocked baca ,nd forth again and the rent enarged. In a moment it might tear arger and the two would go rocking wiftly downward. The only chance for safety was for ? " f t /-? crr\ In fho nn ra nil 11 f u lit? Ul (.Ilt'Ul IU Hy/ *** tuv |/Iii UUMUW I nd self-preservation is the first law , f nn.t'.1 re. "Don't rock the balloon," shouted icanion fiercely, although the man iras sitting quietly enough. The man aid nothing. "Why don't you look down?" emanded Scanion with all the fierceess that fighting for one's own iife rings up in one. The man watched Scanion humbly moment and then turned his eyes own. Wrapping his legs together, icanion lunged at the man and tore ladly at his fingers gripped around he rope and the end of the bar. Siently the two fought, their breaths omings quick and fast, their nails ringing great gashes on each other's ands. The bar and the parachute ocked to the struggle, but that alone old the story of the struggle to the irds. Finally Scanion got the man's ngers loose from the rope, and In ne surge of strength pushed him off nnlrit/or^ TVl Q hilTlH f)f thP C* V_/ XV TT U X Ui A 4* v A/v*?s/? w. ian, gripped around the bar, unoubled, and without a sound he fent whirling through the air, turnng grotesquely, his arms striking out s if they expected to catch on sornehing. Fascinated, Scanion could not keep lis %eyes off the whirling body. So quarely under him was it that but or the turnings it did not seem to be noving. It seemed to be resting in pace. As it got farther away it ceasd to struggle, falling like a dead nass. A sparrowhawk darted toward it curiously, then turned away. Then the body struck the ground? n a small pasture lot. The sound rhich travels upward more easily ame to him with sickening clearness, t seemed as though he was only a ew feet away. But look as he might, Icanion could not see where the body ind struck. It seemed to have buried tself in the ground. His courage almost gone, Scanion >ulled the rope that severed the par.chute from the baloon and dropped o the ground. When the people came unning up he was so weak that ho ould scarcely stand alone. That evning he was arrested, and later tood trial for the man's death, but vas acquitted on the ground of selflefense. But it was Scanion's last ascension, le is now afraid as death of a baloon, and will scarcely look at a flyng machine in the air. His nerves ire completely gone, and as he talks le keeps moving his hands aimlessly iround over his lap and knees. He nakes his living during the summer 11 small towns and during the wilier in vaudeville by doing high divng. "It's the nights that make me miserable, he said, buttoning and unbutoning his coat. "I can stand the laytime pretty well, for there's peoovnu 11 <1 than Hut the nichts! I ilways see something falling, falling ind waving its hands." After All. "I have been a drudge all my life," 10 complained. 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