Modern Murder

Two most experienced and careful pilots, H. De Lay, aerial daredevil, and R. I. Short, President of the Essandee Corporation, were killed at Los Angeles, the wings collapsing in a loop at 2,000 feet. A pin holding the wings to the body of the plane was only three-eighths of an inch in diameter instead of the required three-quarters, and its loosening caused the accident. Previous attempts on De Lay's life, his many enemies in the beach district, and his usually minute care in plane maintenance lead friends to believe that this is the first airplane murder--more subtle than mediaeval poison.