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OHIO AVIATOR KILLED WHEN PLANE'S WING SNAPS.
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H.P. Harris Drops 600 Feet-Prospective Girl Passenger Saved by Timidity.
 
  AKRON, O., May 3-H.P. Harris, an aviator, making exhibition flights here, fell 600 feet to instant death this afternoon in the presence of thousands of spectators when the left wing of his Curtiss biplane broke entirely from the machine. His neck and back were broken by the fall.


 Harris had been soaring above the heads of the spectators for fifteen minutes when the accident happened to the machine,  When within 100 feet of the ground Harris leaped from his seat.

  The timidity of a young woman, who had gained Harris's consent to be a passenger, saved her life.  Just before he ascended, the woman, who had taken her seat beside him, turned pale and hastily clambered out of the machine.

  The aviator, who was thirty-five years old and married, had intended making exhibition flights at resorts this summer.  He had been employed by the Silver Lake Aviation Company since last July.
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  The end of aviator Harris
(Studensky's [[strikethrough]][[?]][[/strikethrough]] last flying association - 
the Silver Lake Company)