JUDGE TRAVELS 8,000 MILES TO GET ARTIFICIAL LEG
Chattanooga, Tennessee (JFK+50) On December 29, 1924, The Associated Press reports that a representative of the United States on the Cairo International Court has arrived here in Chattanooga after a journey of 8,000 miles "to get an artificial leg."
Judge Pierre Crabites* "lost his right leg (on) June 25 when he was struck by a street car as he was leaving the International Court Building in Cairo, Egypt."
Unable to secure an artificial limb there, the Judge traveled to New York to purchase one. The AP does not say why he then came here to Chattanooga, but perhaps there is a physician here who will put it on.
*Pierre Crabites (1877-1943) was born in the French Quarter of New Orleans to a wealthy immigrant from France. PC earned his MA at Tulane University, LLB at Loyola University, LLD at the University of New Orleans & did graduate studies at the University of Paris. He was appointed to the Mixed Courts of Egypt by President Taft.
SOURCE
"U.S. Agent in Cairo Comes 8,000 Miles For Artificial Limb," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., December 29, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
