Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1908 — TELLS HOW SHE WAS PULLED UP 500 FEET [ARTICLE]

TELLS HOW SHE WAS PULLED UP 500 FEET

Woman Relates Experience I; Her Suit for $25,000. Kingston, N. Y., Dec. 15.—Mrs. Mary S. Roper, who is suing the Ulster County Agricultural society for $25,000 damages for injuries received when she was caught around her ankle by a rope from an ascendingJ>alloon and carried upward for more%an 500 feet, told her experience to a jury in the supreme court. Everybody crowded around the balloon as it started to rise, she said. She was in the midst of the crowd and suddenly felt something tugging at her ankle. Reaching to discover its cause her finger became caught in the rope that had twisted around her leg and she was hurled through the crowd. Sfie became unconscious. The action will be continued today when Maggie Daley, now Mrs. Charles Brockett, will tell her story.