[2] Supposedly, at age 54, Morton, a veteran career parachutist, made the first dive by jumping from a Wright Model B over Venice, California.
At some point he became injured and began bleeding, becoming unconscious, but descended safely with his body lashed to the balloon's trapeze.
[4] On July 2, 1905 Morton was nearly killed during an exhibition at Urbita Springs, San Bernardino, California.
[6] Because of his various injuries Morton had become incapacitated by October and was unable to work putting him and his wife in poverty.
[7][8] An article in Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine (dated February 29 and March 1, 2012)[9] makes a claim that U.S. Army Captain Albert Berry was the first to jump from a powered airplane on March 1, 1912 (with Anthony Jannus as his pilot) and that Morton did so on April 28, 1912, which would give priority to Berry, providing it was Morton's first airplane jump and not his second or third.