The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-21

a run.
 The bodies were in a furrow made in the soft earth of the field by the force of the impact.
 Saw Them Failing
 "When we saw them falling, we scrambled from the building and ran to the field. We did not know 1t was two human bodies.
 'They were lying sid by side, bodies were limp and broken. It only a foot or two apart. They looked as if they had clung to. gether until they struck the ground.
 "one wore a brown coat with a light fur collar. The other was entirely in black with silk spotted scarf about her neck"
 A gas company worker named Watmore said he saw the bodies almost from the state of the fall. It reminded him of "a big piece of paper huttering to the earth"
 Police found bracelet nearby and the contents of handbag, strewn all about.
 A small gold wrist watch was nearby, still ticking and with its glass unbroken. The watch was engraved "J. Du B."
 Scotland Yard Called
 The bodies were taken to the Hornchurch mortuary. Scotland Yard men were summoned from London to aid local police in their investigation.
 It was disclosed that the pilot had flown for approximately half an hour before he discovered the girls were missing. He explained the reason he did not discover the absence earlier.
 The girls, he said, had asked him to close the door separating the cockpit from the cabin and cover the windows. He estimated his altitude at perhaps 4,00O to 5000 feet at the time of the &C., cident.
 Du Bois married Margaret Men, dell, of Boston, August l. 1910.
 Before he entered the diplomatic service he was in California as Dis- trict Forester of the United States Forest Service from 1911 to 1917.
 He had served in Washington, Paris, Port Said, Batavia, in India and at Naples. He was a major and lieutenant coloned of engineers in the World War. and for a time was in the 10th Engineers in France.
 Police examined the airplane's interior. They found 1t all right except for the open door-whose lock. they said was intact and in good working order.
 Dr. Hendrie. the local physician, was summoned and said both must have died instantly.
 Another Fall Recalled Capt. Alfred Loewenstein, "The Belgian Croesus" was the victim of the most spectacular fall from an airplane only few miles out in the English Channel, whence the London-Paris plane turned back today after two women fell from it.,
 Once of wealth almost legendary, q sybarite who travelled with a platoon of secretaries and servants. owned his own airplanes and had his own pilots, he disappeared from an atrplane over the channel July 4, 1928.
 He had gone to London, in, his usual regal style-in desperate been pyramided; his companies
 
 loan, and he did not get 1t.
 It was generally accepted that he was a suicide but the real story of his death never was cleared, up. A purely formal verdict of accidental death was returned by the coroner at Boulogne, France, October 25, 1928.
 Sequel To Death
 Naples, Italy, Feb. 21-(UP)- A sequel to the death of nine men in the crash of a new model Brit ish air force hydroplane in Sicily last week was seen today in the deaths of Jane ano Elizabeth Du- Bois. American girls who plunged from a plane flying high over the English aviators' homeland.
 The two girls had been much at- tached to Flying Officer John A. C. Forbes and Flight Lieut.. Henry l.. Beatty, who were among those killed in the Sicily crash. Their deaths caused the girls to grieve so that their parents, Consul General Coert Du Bois and his wife, the former Margaret Wendell of Bos- ton, decided to send them on a va cation. The girls went to England to rest and try to recover from their sorrow.
 But peace did not come to them. Memory of the two dead officers burned even brighter In their hearts when the girls were among scenes familiar to Forbes and Beat ty. who was a half-brother of Lord Beatty.
 It was this situation. distressed friends of the sisters believed. which led to the double tragedy this morning.
 The parents declined to issue a statement.
 U. S. Ambassador Breckenridge Long. Il close friend of the family, said: 'I cannot believe it, I am deeply shocked"
 Long was to have had Du Bois as his guest this SHeekend.
 Friends Are Shocked
 Washington, Feb 21.-(UP)- Friends of Elizabeth and Jane Du Bois. killed in a plunge from an airplane in England, were shocked to-day by news of the tragedy.
 Jane was said to have suffered acutely fir the past 10 years from chronic asthma.
 Friends said the relationships among members of the Du Bo!s family were particularly close. Both girls were devoted to their mother and father, and to each other.
 The family is well known in Washington. Coert Du Bois, the father, was stationed here from 1923 to 1927 as chief of visa di- vision of the state department.
 Du Bois has been in the Ameri- can foreign service since 1919, im- mediately after leaving the U. Z. army where he saw service over seas.