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From the Atlantic City Press:
Second man charged in monument vandalism
By THOMAS BARLAS Staff Writer, (609) 272-7201, E-Mail
SHAMONG TOWNSHIP - State Police on Monday charged the last of two men who allegedly spray-painted racial slogans and symbols on the Pinelands monument to Mexican aviator Emilio Carranza in May.
Michael T. Dugan, 22, of Washington Township, Gloucester County, was charged with criminal mischief after an interview with law-enforcement officials at the State Police barracks in Red Lion, Burlington County. A criminal mischief charge was lodged against 18-year-old Albert L. Boyson Jr., of Mount Laurel, Burlington County, on July 8. Boyson was released on his own recognizance after being charged, according to State Trooper B. Gilbert.
Rangers at Wharton State Forest here found the slogans and signs spray-painted on the 71-year-old monument May 16.
The incident shocked members of the Mount Holly American Legion Post 11, which has maintained the monument since its construction. This was the first incident of vandalism in the monument's history, they said.
Carranza is dubbed the "Lindberg of Mexico" and remains a hero in Mexico.
In 1928, Carranza came within 300 miles of completing a nonstop flight from Mexico City to Washington, D.C. He made it after a stopover in North Carolina.
On July 12, 1928, Carranza planned to take off from New York City for a nonstop flight back to Mexico City.
The weather was bad and U.S. officials would not allow Carranza to fly in the raging thunderstorm.
But Carranza left after getting a telegram from his superior officer, who cabled, "Leave immediately without excuse or pretext, or the quality of your manhood will be in doubt."
Carranza took off from Roosevelt Field - the same field used by Charles Lindberg at the start of his cross-Atlantic flight - at 7:18 p.m.
There was no news of Carranza's flight until about 3:30 p.m. the next day, when a young boy picking blueberries found the wing of an aircraft in the pines here. A later search turned up Carranza and the remains of his plane.
To e-mail Thomas Barlas at The Press:
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The poor guy. I guess he didn't want "the quality of his manhood to be in doubt".
Second man charged in monument vandalism
By THOMAS BARLAS Staff Writer, (609) 272-7201, E-Mail
SHAMONG TOWNSHIP - State Police on Monday charged the last of two men who allegedly spray-painted racial slogans and symbols on the Pinelands monument to Mexican aviator Emilio Carranza in May.
Michael T. Dugan, 22, of Washington Township, Gloucester County, was charged with criminal mischief after an interview with law-enforcement officials at the State Police barracks in Red Lion, Burlington County. A criminal mischief charge was lodged against 18-year-old Albert L. Boyson Jr., of Mount Laurel, Burlington County, on July 8. Boyson was released on his own recognizance after being charged, according to State Trooper B. Gilbert.
Rangers at Wharton State Forest here found the slogans and signs spray-painted on the 71-year-old monument May 16.
The incident shocked members of the Mount Holly American Legion Post 11, which has maintained the monument since its construction. This was the first incident of vandalism in the monument's history, they said.
Carranza is dubbed the "Lindberg of Mexico" and remains a hero in Mexico.
In 1928, Carranza came within 300 miles of completing a nonstop flight from Mexico City to Washington, D.C. He made it after a stopover in North Carolina.
On July 12, 1928, Carranza planned to take off from New York City for a nonstop flight back to Mexico City.
The weather was bad and U.S. officials would not allow Carranza to fly in the raging thunderstorm.
But Carranza left after getting a telegram from his superior officer, who cabled, "Leave immediately without excuse or pretext, or the quality of your manhood will be in doubt."
Carranza took off from Roosevelt Field - the same field used by Charles Lindberg at the start of his cross-Atlantic flight - at 7:18 p.m.
There was no news of Carranza's flight until about 3:30 p.m. the next day, when a young boy picking blueberries found the wing of an aircraft in the pines here. A later search turned up Carranza and the remains of his plane.
To e-mail Thomas Barlas at The Press:
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The poor guy. I guess he didn't want "the quality of his manhood to be in doubt".
