Record #:

12680

Author(s):

Cowper, Pulaski

Abstract:

North Carolinians played witness to a great hoax perpetrated in 1883 by Dr. G. W. Blacknall, Pulaski Cowper, and Col. Fred Olds, all from Raleigh. The gentlemen penned a story of the rescue of a small child who had been carried out to sea via a cluster of balloons. The story was published by the News & Observer, causing great controversy.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 29 Issue 7, Sept 1961, p9-10, il

Subject(s):

Impostors and imposture--Raleigh; Great Balloon Hoax