Another Mystery of the Rum Plane

On May 15, 1922, a aircraft carrying Canadian liquor crashed in Croton, drawing attention from law enforcement and local residents. The New York Times reported that when authorities arrived at the wreckage, they found "country folk grouped about the battered remains of a once gallant craft, some of them looking quite cheerful over that which the air had provided."

One local who climbed the hill near the Tumble Inn photographed the damaged plane before police dismantled it and transported it to

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