Flying over Peterson. N. J.. probably
will be prohibited as a result of the
deaths Friday of I,lent. William Pontes
and Mrs. John Brady, who fell In an nlr
pl-ipp at the Preaknesa flying field near
t liere. Harry Hlghman. president of
the Board of Aldermen, arid Mayor
Frank Van Noort said yesterday tliaf
4 an ordinance Introduced last July and
tabled probably will be brought up again
and voted upon.
(.
ENTOMBED IN TRUNK
GIRL KILLS HERSELF
Fastens Tube to Gas Stove,
Runs Pipe Through Keyhole,
starts Flow With String.
LEFT NOTE TELLING WHY
Man Leaps From Window,
Fails to End Life, Then
Dives Down Well.
Two of the queerest suicides on reo ;
ord were reported yesterday, one to the |
police of the East Eighty-eighth street.
station and the other in Mount Vernon. 1
Mary Oaprea, 23, of 132 East Eighty- '
fifth street, shut herself up in a big
trunk into which she had led a small
bore rubber tube, one end of which
was fastened to a gas fixture. She was
dead when found. The second of |he
?suicides was that of Frank Stisco of
13?3 South Seventh street. Mount Vernon,
who succeeded in killing himself only v
after he had Jumped out a window t
and then into a well,
Mary Caprea, according to the police,
lived at the East Eighty-fifth street |
address with John Starola, a chauffeur.
Starola returned home at 8 o'clock last ;
night and found the door of their
apartment locked. He finally got it
open and walked inside. He detected
the odor of gas.
Policeman Keavey of the East Eighty-:
eighth street station helped Starola.
trace, the gas to the kitchen. In front i
of the gas stove they found the trunk.
