French Airman Held Up.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 10, 1913:
British Police Arrested Him, but Found His Excuse a Good One.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, March 9.— The French aviator Marty, who flew across the Channel and passed over Dover, one of the areas prohibited to foreign air craft under the new regulations, has been held up by the police near Canterbury and asked to give an account of himself. It appears that Marty was piloting an aeroplane purchased for the British Admiralty and had as a passenger the son of Sir William Ramsay, the chemist.
    Under the circumstances, the police allowed him to proceed.