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 J Charles l. Ritchey 3373 Parkview Avenue, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
do depose and say that I recall that around the year 1900 I saw
and talked to a man by the name of Whitehead (or a similar name)
as he demonstrated an airplane in Scheuley Park Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
which he was supposed to have made. I also saw him run the engine
for some time using charcoal for fuel, i did not see the plane
in flight as it was anchored to the ground at the time I saw it.
i do recall of reading about and hearing of this plane making
a flight in which it was supposed to have gained a height of about
twenty feet and then it crashed injuring the driver. I readily
recognized pictures shown me by Miss Stella Randolph as being
very much like the plane and the photograph she showed me very
much resembled the man who was in charge of the plane I saw in
Scheuley Park.
Signed and Witnessed.
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