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 completed and the airplane was approaching directly toward the witness when it appeared to gain some altitude and then dived directly to the ground. Mr. Taylor's testimony was corroborated by several witnesses who also lived at Lawrence Station.

Another witness Mr. Henry Oldham, a farmer who lives approximately ¾ mile southeast of where the accident occurred, also stated that his attention was attracted by the noise of the airplane. He stated that he was standing on his farm and that he saw the airplane approaching from a northerly direction and that it appeared to be in a right turn and was banked very steeply. He testified that he observed only 2½ circles, all to the right, and that the airplane seemed to be going up and down while in a steeply banked attitude. According to Mr. Oldham's testimony, the airplane continued in this attitude until it dived to the ground.

Miss Doris Imlay, a school teacher, saw the airplane during the final stages of its descent from her position on the front porch of her home, which is located approximately ½ mile east of the scene of the accident. She said that when she heard the noise she rushed outside and saw the airplane very low, traveling west. It then made a circle to the left and just before the impact the airplane was going away from her toward the west and was in a diving attitude. Although flames from the wreckage were easily discernible, Miss Imlay was prevented from seeing the actual crash due to a slight rise of the terrain between her house and the scene of the accident.

Mrs. Viola Howe, on whose farm the airplane crashed, testified that she had been listening to a news broadcast and had turned off the radio at exactly 10 o'clock. Approximately five minutes later she heard a plane go over. She said, "I didn't pay any particular attention to that plane and then I would say there was no passing of time until I heard ... a greater volume of noise. Then I thought it was several planes coming and I thought there was going to be something to see ... so I ran to my (west) kitchen window. I had my face right against the pane of that window ... I could see the plane very distinctly. It did not appear to be so very large at that time ... What drew my attention, I immediately saw three lights, a red light on the top and two green ones. The nose was a little more down and at that moment he was just zooming making a terrific noise, just right down". She stated that the airplane was going very fast "like they do when they dog fight", that it came down and around and that on about the second turn she ran to the back door, which is on the east side of the kitchen. Just as she opened the door she said that the cement step and the ground was yellow, "like almost the color of a pumpkin but hardly so deep, but a very yellow glow of light." She continued to the corner of the house and while looking in a southeast direction, she observed the airplane coming right down to the earth. The airplane crashed in a wheat stubble field approximately 1150 feet southeast of her home.

Mr. Ward Willson, a farmer, who was drying beans on the Livingston's farm (approximately 1½ miles northwest of the scene of the accident), also observed the aircraft when it first started its descent from an altitude which he estimated as 4000 or 5000 feet. He said, "I went into the kiln to check the heat and came out and heard the plane coming and looked at it. It was coming directly towards me from the east. Just how many seconds I was looking at it, I can't tell. I watched it come and there was absolutely nothing the matter with the plane, just another airline plane going over. I could see the running lights. I was going to read a magazine and got in my car and just as I got in ... I heard the airplane motors more or less the same as bombers doing a slight dive, surging, and I got out of my car and started to look at the plane again and when I saw it ... it was on a vertical angle with the left wing down turning back south and it swung around from south, east, north and so on and all the time it was turning it was in this bank." He said that the