Aviation relief expedition to South Fox lumbermen, 1923

Summary

The Herald reported that a Brigeut biplane, disabled during a relief expedition to starving lumbermen on South Fox Island, departed after repairs were installed in the island field.

Evidence and limits

The held source was published or indexed on 1923-06-08. It is the basis for this record; notices, retrospective columns, and schedules are not treated as proof of later outcomes.

ormer employer, Paul De- Lislo, @ wealthy cattle buyer, Dee. 10, 1921, by giving him a mixture of poison and whiskey, was acquitted by a jury in the Circuit Court. Aus- tin and his alleged accomplice, Clif- ford Thorpe, were convicted in their first triai and both had served more than a year in prison when the Su- preme Court ordered a new trial, Traverse City—Winging its way’ toward Chicago, the huge Brigeut biplane which ‘laid on South Fox island, disabled, in a relief expedi- tion to starving lumbermen, more than a month ago, took off from a field here last week. Pilot John Mil- Jer with Mechanicians Edward La- parle and James Phelps, had been on the island several days installing a new motor and repairing the plane. Rising from its hazardous landing field on the island, the ship narrowly averted a second disaster when torn against a fence. Kalamazoo—Flint defeated Detroit

Open questions

• Can an original agency, vessel, land, lighthouse, or personnel record confirm the details and identify unnamed people or equipment?
• Does another contemporaneous source establish an exact location, duration, or outcome beyond this report?

See also

• Beaver Island archipelago
• South Fox Island
• Lumbering