Word: mccrossin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Milwaukee, Wis. Mr. McCrossin's Accident...
Your comment in the Dec. 12 issue regarding my fellow townsman, Edward McCrossin, contained five counts: name, age, place of accident, nature of accident and quotation. Correct were name and place of accident. Wrong was the quoted age. The accident produced a jagged 36-stitch end-of-a-pipe wound in the right hand, not a broken collar bone. He did not say, when offered a drink, "Sir, I am a Prohibitionist, dead or alive" but, thinking clearly under stress as consulting engineers must, and considering that his heart had just been through a terrific strain he replied: "Thanks...
...Peabody, Mass., dug out from under a collapsed floor with a broken collarbone. Edward McCrossin. 48, was offered a drink of whiskey. Spat he: "Sir. I am a Prohibitionist, dead or alive...
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