Deputy Sheriff James C. Wright, portrayed by Scott Croy, Mesquite Community Theater

"I don't know how you felt about the illegal whiskey business, but it was my job to watch out for any activity and stop it. That's what we were going to do the morning of the accident."

(There was a car accident and he was thrown from the car and suffered a head injury and had surgery.)

"I'll tell you, that was a strange accident, because August 31 was the day I was born in 1879, the day I married in 1905, and the day, by all accounts, I left this world in 1924."