THE MYSTERY OF THE RUM PLANE
LIQUOR LADEN PLANE FROM CANADA FALLS AS IT NEARS CITY--Drops 250 Quarts of Scotch Near Croton, Where Water for Highballs Comes From--FLIER ESCAPES IN AN AUTO--Car Apparently in Waiting Whisks Limping Aviator From Scene
“Dusk was deepening into darkness” on the night of May 15, 1922, as a Curtis biplane circled slowly over a farm “about a mile and a quarter above Croton . . . a quarter of a mile from Tumble Inn, one of the much patronized roadhouses of the county.”1 The farm’s owner, former Westchester County deputy sheriff George McCall, watched as the pilot “suddenly pointed the craft’s nose earthward and slipped toward the farmhouse.” READ THE REST HERE https://crotonhistory.org/2017/11/25/the-mystery-of-the-rum-plane/
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