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MANCHESTER AIR PILOT KILLED
San Juan, Porto Rico, December 3--Tod Shriver, a well-known American aviator, was
killed last evening in an exhibition flight which he was making at Ponce. Shriver fell from a height of 200 feet into a cane
field, and died within half an hour while on the way to the hospital. Thousands of spectators witnessed the accident.
Shriver ascended over Ponce in a Baldwin aeroplane and went through a number of evolutions. Apparently he lost control
of the machine in making a turn. The aeroplane swooped to the earth and landed with a crash. Shriver being half buried in
the wreckage.
The sad news reached his sisters here Sunday afternoon who were almost distaracted
with grief. Tod Corwin Shriver was born in Manchester, in 1873, and after receiving his schooling here entered this
office and learned the art of printing under J. A. Perry and was foreman of the same when the present editor entered, then
a kid, in 1895. He is the son of the late Capt. D. R. Shriver and is well known by many of our citizens. Since the invention
of the aeroplane in 1906-'07, he has been with Glenn Curtiss, the great sky pilot, but the last two years has been
associated with Capt. Thos. Baldwin. Last year he toured the Old Country, Australia, China and Japan with success. He
was home in September of this year, having stopped off to pay his sisters a visit after having made several flights at the
Stpingfield, O., fair. He has been married two years and has resided the last six years in New York City. The body will be
shipped to Manchester for burial but owing to the distance will not reach here for several days yet. The family have the
symnpathy of all in their loss.
from an Unidentified Newsclipping
Collection of Mary Castro, 2-20-04
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