The evening world. Newspaper, May 16, 1922, Page 5

TART HE PoE TEP ) x ‘ THE. EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1922, In grief over the strewn glass splin. ters of what once had been perfectly drinkable whiskey, The plane had two cockpits. The forward one had been used by the plipt. The other, designed for a pas- senger or mechanician, was crammed full of liquor. Im all there had been some 150 quarts of Scotch and Irish whiskey. All of it, Capt. Warner said, was of excellent quality. The Captain spoke out of professional knowledge, gained in enforcing the Prohibition laws in Westchester, The stuff all bore the stamp of the Quebec Liquor Commission. Some of it had been packed in two gunny sacks. They searched the wreckage ih the hope of finding clues to the rum run- ners. Their only reward, so fat as they disclosed, was a Montreal news- paper bearing yesterday's date, Capt. Warner left three troopers on guard, pending removal of the plane and the liquor, both being subject to seizure. The troopers as well as Federal Prohibition agents said they often had thought of the possibilities of bringing liquor to New York by air- plane, but a number of practical dit- ficulties, such as the scarcity of land- ing fields, had.prevented them from taking such a possibility seriously Lieut. Roberts said he believed, from the actions of the aviator, just before the crash, that he was expecting to meet an automobile or a truck near McCall's farm to take the liquor to one or more roadhouses on the Albany Road, Several roadhouses, he said, have been raided in the last few something. Mr. McCall is not up In aeronautics to the extent of knowing what the aviator attempted, but knows that when he wis perWously near the farm house he straightened out his craft and sailed about as if in search of a place to land, for a signal, or for an expected automobile. Evidently he didn’t see what he fdncled, for he suddenly put on the “juice” full force, went up to 1,000 feet and did some more circling. Many Persons along the road were watching him, By that time it was about dark and suddenly he seemed to decide what to do, and he did it in a hurry. He plumped down on a elde hill, the nose of the plane bored into the earth and the wings crumpled. The tank was punctured and sent gasoline all over the wrecked craft, but it did not catoh fire. McCall telephoned State troopers tn White Plains in the belief the aviator had been killed, then ran out to see who had fallen Into his woodlot. In- ead of finding a mangled body he saw a short, heavily bullt man tn a dark sweater pull himself out of the wreckage. He was mad, In a hurry, hatless, and as he raced for an auto- mobile that stood some distance away In the road with open door he said jomething about not being hurt and on his way to the village to get some- body to take charge of the plane. Capt. J. A. Warner and Lieut. Rob- ts of the State troopers made a quick trip with a squad in automo- biles. ‘They found a little group of country folk grouped about the ‘once gallant some of them looking quite others shaking their heads HOOCH AIRPLAN CAPTURED. BY STATE TROOPERS May Be Rum Runner, or (Merely Aviator Replenish- ing Friends’ Stocks. j a State troopers, Deputy Sheriffs and Prohibition Enforcement officers are trying to-day to get a line that will lead to the identification of the Cur- tiss biplane and ownership of 150 bottles of Scotch and Irish whiskies an aerial rum runner was bringing in from Canada, when the machine fell at Croton, Westchester County, last night. The aviator escaped in an au- tomobile that was ready to pick him up. Of him there is no trace, ‘The crash of the machine shortly after dark last night has led the au- thorities to believe there ts a regular aerial hooch line between Canada and New York. The whiskey in the plane cost probably $750 in Canada and would have been worth at bootleg prices probably $3,000 if it had been landed in New York, This would mean a profit of more than $2,000 for @ little trip to Canada and back by plane. Of the whiskey in the machine nearly 100 of the 150 bottles were smashed in the fall. The remainder was taken to White Plains and the seizure reported to-day to the court. How long the flying booze from Canada to New York has been" going on is not known. It Is b ever, to have been in suc eration for some time, or since the reorganizition of the guard service at the border, which is said to have stopped the caravans that formerly cume by truck. Last i's accident, in the opinion of the rity of the authorities, has revealed a highly lucrative system of bringing in contraband from Canada. Jn the cockpit of the machine was a Montreal paper ‘of yesterday, show- ing the aviator had made good time. Another theory of some of the po- lice is that the booze running by aero- plane was a distinctly sporting propo- sition of some one of the millionaire colony in Westchester. 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