Hooch Airplane Captured by State Troopers
Some of tho sheriffs who have had to do with seizures I, t truck stated that in theso selzn ca the Roods In nearly every case rcro of ono brand only. George J. McCall, a former Deputy Sheriff of Westchester County, has farm "about a mile and a quarter above Croton and twenty-flvo miles from White Plains. It faces the Albany Post Road. A quarter of a mile away is Tumble Inn, a much patronized roadhouse. Last night just beforo dark McCall saw a big Curtlss scout plane circling slowly over his .place, but well up in the sky. Tho flier suddenly seemed 1o start a nose dive or tail spin or something. Mr. McCall Is not up In aeronautics to tho extent of knowing what tho aviator attempted, but knows that when ho wis pcrUounly 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 ho didn't seo what he fancied, for ho suddenly mit on the "Juice" full force, went up to 1,000 foot and did some more circling. Many persons along tno road were watching him. By that tlmo it was about dark and suddenly ho seemed to dccldo what tp do, and ho did It In a hurrv. He pliirtipcd down on. a etdo hill, the nose or the piano bored into the earth and tho wings crumpled. The tank was punctured and sent gasoline all over the wrecked craft, iut it did not catoh fire. McCall telephoned State trooners In White Plains In tho belief the aviator had been killed, then ran out to see who bad fallen Into his woodlot. In stead of finding a mangled body ha saw a short, heavily built man In a dark sweater pull himself out of the wreckage.