War Aviator Shot Flying Over Turks.

New York Times 100 years ago today, December 9, 1912:
With Last Breath French Airman Piloted Machine to Bulgar Lines and Expired.
BIPLANE CUT BY BULLETS
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    VIENNA, Monday, Dec. 9.— The Pester Lloyd publishes a tragic story of the death of the war aviator, Dr. Jules Constantin, formerly assistant to the famous Paris surgeon, Dr. Doyen.
    Dr. Constantin was with the Bulgarian Army and had received for his bravery a medal from the hand of King Ferdinand. He was engaged to drop bombs on the Turkish Army.
    On his final flight he left Surma, a small village before the Tchatalja lines, in an aeroplane and rapidly disappeared from view.
    When the machine descended his comrades found him lying dead on the ground with a wound in his chest. The wings of the biplane were pierced with shot.
    The barograph showed that he had sailed at a height of 1,220 meters (4,000 feet) over the Turkish forts, where he photographed the terrain.
    There he had evidently been shot, but he had strength to guide his machine toward the Bulgarian camp. His dead hand still grasped the wheel.