Claire fell from the top of Ohio State Stadium.
Report from the International News follows: Columbus, O., June 3, 1933- Claire Arend, 16- year-old Paulding, O., schoolboy delegate to the Ohio Future Farmers' convention here, today plunged 100 feet to his death from the top of the Ohio State University football stadium. The body of the boy, badly crushed, was found by Ralph Sturgeon of Caldwell, another delegate to the convention. Police, investigating the fatal accident, said that some of the 1,800 boys attending the Future Farmers' meeting were quartered last night at the stadium. Reports were being checked that Arend fell while he and several others were walking around the top of the stadium during the night. Arend's body was found about 50 feet from where Sturgeon was sleeping. Sturgeon told police that he remembered having been awakened about two o'clock this morning by a noise " like a loud bang" but that he thought nothing of it and returned to sleep. Arend was last seen last night by Floyd Luce, 26, of Paulding, a chum, with whom he had gone to a movie earlier in the evening. After the movie, Luce said, he and Arend returned to the stadium where they secured their blanket rolls and started to seek a place to sleep on top of the stadium. "About 15 or 20 boys were up there climbing around," Luce said. " I sat down for a while and pretty soon I looked around for Claire who had been climbing around the north tower where the flagpole is but I couldn't find him. I thought he had gotten tired and gone down to sleep" A verdict of accidental death was returned by Edward E. Smith who said Arend's head had been crushed by the fall. The boy also suffered several compound fractures. The body of the youth was taken to a local mortuary pending word from Paulding. Officials at Ohio State University said the accident was the first fatality of this nature since the stadium was erected in 1922.
Report from the International News follows: Columbus, O., June 3, 1933- Claire Arend, 16- year-old Paulding, O., schoolboy delegate to the Ohio Future Farmers' convention here, today plunged 100 feet to his death from the top of the Ohio State University football stadium. The body of the boy, badly crushed, was found by Ralph Sturgeon of Caldwell, another delegate to the convention. Police, investigating the fatal accident, said that some of the 1,800 boys attending the Future Farmers' meeting were quartered last night at the stadium. Reports were being checked that Arend fell while he and several others were walking around the top of the stadium during the night. Arend's body was found about 50 feet from where Sturgeon was sleeping. Sturgeon told police that he remembered having been awakened about two o'clock this morning by a noise " like a loud bang" but that he thought nothing of it and returned to sleep. Arend was last seen last night by Floyd Luce, 26, of Paulding, a chum, with whom he had gone to a movie earlier in the evening. After the movie, Luce said, he and Arend returned to the stadium where they secured their blanket rolls and started to seek a place to sleep on top of the stadium. "About 15 or 20 boys were up there climbing around," Luce said. " I sat down for a while and pretty soon I looked around for Claire who had been climbing around the north tower where the flagpole is but I couldn't find him. I thought he had gotten tired and gone down to sleep" A verdict of accidental death was returned by Edward E. Smith who said Arend's head had been crushed by the fall. The boy also suffered several compound fractures. The body of the youth was taken to a local mortuary pending word from Paulding. Officials at Ohio State University said the accident was the first fatality of this nature since the stadium was erected in 1922.
Claire fell from the top of Ohio State Stadium.
Report from the International News follows: Columbus, O., June 3, 1933- Claire Arend, 16- year-old Paulding, O., schoolboy delegate to the Ohio Future Farmers' convention here, today plunged 100 feet to his death from the top of the Ohio State University football stadium. The body of the boy, badly crushed, was found by Ralph Sturgeon of Caldwell, another delegate to the convention. Police, investigating the fatal accident, said that some of the 1,800 boys attending the Future Farmers' meeting were quartered last night at the stadium. Reports were being checked that Arend fell while he and several others were walking around the top of the stadium during the night. Arend's body was found about 50 feet from where Sturgeon was sleeping. Sturgeon told police that he remembered having been awakened about two o'clock this morning by a noise " like a loud bang" but that he thought nothing of it and returned to sleep. Arend was last seen last night by Floyd Luce, 26, of Paulding, a chum, with whom he had gone to a movie earlier in the evening. After the movie, Luce said, he and Arend returned to the stadium where they secured their blanket rolls and started to seek a place to sleep on top of the stadium. "About 15 or 20 boys were up there climbing around," Luce said. " I sat down for a while and pretty soon I looked around for Claire who had been climbing around the north tower where the flagpole is but I couldn't find him. I thought he had gotten tired and gone down to sleep" A verdict of accidental death was returned by Edward E. Smith who said Arend's head had been crushed by the fall. The boy also suffered several compound fractures. The body of the youth was taken to a local mortuary pending word from Paulding. Officials at Ohio State University said the accident was the first fatality of this nature since the stadium was erected in 1922.
Report from the International News follows: Columbus, O., June 3, 1933- Claire Arend, 16- year-old Paulding, O., schoolboy delegate to the Ohio Future Farmers' convention here, today plunged 100 feet to his death from the top of the Ohio State University football stadium. The body of the boy, badly crushed, was found by Ralph Sturgeon of Caldwell, another delegate to the convention. Police, investigating the fatal accident, said that some of the 1,800 boys attending the Future Farmers' meeting were quartered last night at the stadium. Reports were being checked that Arend fell while he and several others were walking around the top of the stadium during the night. Arend's body was found about 50 feet from where Sturgeon was sleeping. Sturgeon told police that he remembered having been awakened about two o'clock this morning by a noise " like a loud bang" but that he thought nothing of it and returned to sleep. Arend was last seen last night by Floyd Luce, 26, of Paulding, a chum, with whom he had gone to a movie earlier in the evening. After the movie, Luce said, he and Arend returned to the stadium where they secured their blanket rolls and started to seek a place to sleep on top of the stadium. "About 15 or 20 boys were up there climbing around," Luce said. " I sat down for a while and pretty soon I looked around for Claire who had been climbing around the north tower where the flagpole is but I couldn't find him. I thought he had gotten tired and gone down to sleep" A verdict of accidental death was returned by Edward E. Smith who said Arend's head had been crushed by the fall. The boy also suffered several compound fractures. The body of the youth was taken to a local mortuary pending word from Paulding. Officials at Ohio State University said the accident was the first fatality of this nature since the stadium was erected in 1922.
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