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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1934
THE
CANDLE
(Continued From Page 9).
AIRMAN'S STRANGE SUICIDE
and staring, his face was covered Deliberate Crash When
Banned From Flying.
TRAGEDY. IN PRAGUE
Prague.
He looked at his watch again, but in blood and he alavered at the It was some time before his dazzled mouth like a madman. eyes could make out the time. Then The glass splintered unexpected- he shuddered. The time was ten to ly, mutilating his hands horribly, twelve-and if he had calculated but he WRE unconscious of it.! correctly the candle should be burnt Smoke was pouring under the door. Seizing the iron bars he drew right down by midnight.
Jan Zounek did not drink or He thought of his knife, the type himself up so that his face was at smoke, had no intimate friends, Wednesday, 4th July at 8 a.m. sold in radio shops, with blades and window-level and shrieked for help, and seemed to have only one.in
Per-again and again.
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Would nobody come? He shriek- Wednesday, 16th Aug. at 10 am. hape he could unscrew the catch of
He seldom left the military the door. With his knife open heed until he was breathless, then aerodrome at Nitra, in Slovakia.
The 16th July
fumbled for the catch; he could not paused
room where he was a pilot. already. Не then screamed in
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crackling,
He re
and listened. find any holes; perhaps they had was getting hot
Then he developed heart trou- been puttted in. Werner jabbed his shrieked again, knife in the door at a terrific rate, the final throes of terror, for he ble, and his name was removed
from the list of pilots. The could hear the flames vainly seeking a soft spot. knife shut suddenly, cutting his devouring the door on the landing.mained at the aerodrome as a
mechanic. finger painfully. He could feel the Then they seemed to leap across blood. His watch drew his eyes and attack the door of his room. Jan climbed into an aeroplane again. Eight minutes to midnight. The noise was terrific. With his and said that he was going to last reserves of strength he seized taxi it to the other side of the Two minutes wasted.
the the bars again and rubbed his face ground. Perhaps he could unscrew
Instead, he took off, and spec- hinges. He knew that a pair of against them, seeking to avoid long old-fashioned hinges had been asphyxiation. The door gave way. iators were soon alarmed by the Alted to support the heavy door. The flames burst in. They had reckless way he handled the
him, were dragging him down from machine. He felt carefully along the top
"He's trying to crash." sonIC- the window. He staggered back to hinge and located the screws. Four
in their
Then one shouted. the door
grasp. of them-in one hinge. No won-
Then the machine was flung der the builder had charged so much with strange calm he relaxed for a
# vertical dive-for the. for the alterations. He set to work few seconds. Then he made one into
tearing himself earth. jon the first screw, guiding the knife desperate leap.
with his left hand. His coat sleeve from their searing touch. He flung
It struck the ground with ter rific force and Jan Zounek's' slipped down over his wrist and the himself against the bara.
The Inspector blotted the report heart will trouble him no more.- luminous dial of his watch became
and looked up at Sergeant Davies visible once more. Six
more
standing in front of him. minutes.
Ahl the
acrew
was
"It won't do, old man, it won't coming-do. The coroner wouldn't take that i Though he worked furiously his yarn. Come on, spilt it and I'll do: eyes were drawn to his watch again all I can for you.” and again. Realising how he was "I am
sorry, sir. I have told' wasting time looking at his watch you the whole truth and nothing,
he smashed the back of his hand but the truth."
against the wall, but at the very The rather pudgy figure stiffened instant that the glass splintered he in the chair and the voice became
regretted his action. Now he harah.
could only guess the time.
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down the Pc. Skeggs."
excuse for his movements. useless thing.
"Pardon me, sir, but this bruise: But the police raided one of his. He paused to think a minute, on the bridge of my nose has houses and found 42 grammes of then decided to break the window jaffected my sight for the moment, hashish
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poker had been. He could feel the' "You and Skeggs were in the ear fined 400 Egyptian pounds.--Reuter. sear even at this moment. As he at 12.5 a.m. when you heard Bray went to the window to break the whistle.... Shrieks were coming gloss a deep boom made him jump from the building, which you traced like
The A shot rabbit.
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and that speciallying to the window had had fixed,
bara, terribly thick plate glass. He punched at mutilated--with a description how. the glass, but could not crack it. "You three men drugged him the knife! He ran across down, and as he seemed
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but he could not feel it; he had scuffle-bere comes the fishy part, say, are what it will take to pay found the knife with his other hand. Davies-and turning, you saw this off, the debt on the pipe organ.
Then he started violently. His tiny man tear himself from Skegga The Stewards added that six- nostrils had caught a faint whiff and Bray and hurl himself at the teen pennies laid edge to edge of smoke 'under the door. After a window with sufficient force to equal one foot. 1st July. momenta lang moment in which fracture his skull against the ironi After prodigious figuring it
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