INTRODUCTION & INDEX
KIDNAPPING OF SCHENECTADY CHILD
Victim Brought to North Country
May 1923
The details of a kidnapping in Schenectady, N. Y. on April 30, 1923, provide for interesting reading for those of us who probe events having a link to Jefferson County, N. Y.
Again, my rambling through old Watertown newspapers attracted my attent ion to a name associated with my Hasner family -- Beebe, which was the married name of my Grandfather Hasner's Aunt Pamelia. I soon learned, not from family lore, but by interfacing my Hasner genealogy with the names in numerous articles on the topic of this kidnapping, that my Grandpa's cousin was married to the kidnapper involved. That fact alone is the only reason I became involved in posting this on my website -- not because I think the very large Beebee (also Beebe) family would relish reading this. I hope they will look within the articles for the good things said about the Beebee family and be as thankful as I am for learning more about a part of their family.
Shirley Farone
February, 2010
CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX OF NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Transcribed articles may be viewed by clicking in the title-topic-content column.
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Ref. |
Date |
Name of Newspaper |
Title/Topic/Content |
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1 |
May 1, 1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Boy Kidnapped While at Play Pleads by Radio for Word from Son Photo of Verner Alexanderson State Police Ordered to Seek Missing Boy Country Combed..... Crying Boy Seen in Auto |
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19 |
May 1,1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Get Kidnappers at Any Price |
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6 |
May 1, 1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Kiah Taken Before Ingram |
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2 |
May 3, 1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Search Islands for Kidnappers Ogdensburg: Cadillac Belongs to Kiah |
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2 |
May 3, 1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Find New Angle In Kidnapping Boy May Be Victim of Moral Pervert Another Possible Clue In Kidnapping Found |
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2e |
May 3, 1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Overnight Developments - Verner Alexanderson Found |
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2h |
May 3, 1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Thought Hiding in Montreal |
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3 |
May 4, 1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Boy's Abductors Not Yet Found |
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3 |
May 4,1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Kidnapped Boy, 6, Sought Since Monday, United With Parents Here |
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7 |
May 4, 1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Mrs. Grinell Used As Tool Fairbanks, 'Guy About Town' |
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16 |
May 4,1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Jarvis Identifies Fairbanks' Photo |
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20 |
May 4, 1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Jarvis To Seek $2,000 Reward |
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11 |
May 4,1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
City Mecca for Newspaper Men |
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12 |
May 5,1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Family Happy, Off For Home |
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13 |
May 5,1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Hundreds Greet Boy |
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14 |
May 5,1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Scour Montreal for Abductors |
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17 |
May 5, 1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Say Men Seen at Sandy Creek Crandall Telegram Contradicts Story |
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10 |
May 5, 1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Kidnappers Seen Here Thursday |
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20 |
May 7,1923 |
Schenectady Gazette |
Verner Tells His Own Story of Kidnapping |
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20-a |
May 7,1923 |
Schenectady Gazette |
Whole Family of Bunnies Greeted Verner On Return |
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20-b |
May 7,1923 |
Schenectady Gazette |
Finding of Boy Work of Papers, Father Asserts |
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20-c |
May 7,1923 |
Schenectady Gazette |
Theresa, A Peaceful And Quiet Little Village |
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20-z |
May 11,1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Seeress Tells of Kidnapping |
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13b |
May 13,1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Bail For Women Fixed at $15,000 |
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13z |
May 13,1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Detectives Take Three Women to Schenectady |
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23 |
May 14,1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Crandall May Be in Mexico |
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18 |
May 17, 1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Women Are Held For Grand Jury |
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18a |
May 17, 1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Trainmen Watch for Kidnappers |
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23a |
June 1,1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
No Indictments at Schenectady |
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23b |
June 1,1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Jarvis Receives $1,000 of Reward |
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15 |
June 4,1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Man Held May Be Fairbanks |
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000 |
June 19,1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
4 articles: 5 Jurors Picked in Kidnapping Chief J. M. Crabb and Ross Visger to Testify Nine Theresa Person Summond For Trial |
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21 |
June 20, 1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Verner Tells of Kidnapping |
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4 |
June 21,1923 |
Schenectady Gazette |
Attorney In Hot Tilts for Kidnapping Case |
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13a |
June 22,1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Hendricks and Blessing Clash |
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8 |
June 22,1923 |
Schenectady Gazette |
Jury Gets Kidnapping Case Today |
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9 |
June 23,1923 |
Schenectady Gazette |
Woman Who Had Verner Acquitted Women Held In Kidnapping Case Released on Bail |
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13b |
June 25, 1923 |
Schenectady Gazette |
Woman Held in Alexanderson Case to be Let Out |
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22 |
June 27,1923 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Man Held May Be Fairbanks |
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5 |
April 26,1924 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Alexandria Bay Man Arrested (in Manitoba) |
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5a |
April 28,1924 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Suspect Is Not Harry Fairbanks |
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31a |
July 22, 1925 |
Schenectady Gazette |
Kidnapper Mum On Motive |
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31 |
November 6, 1926 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Six Fairbanks Captors Share |
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30 |
October 12,1927 |
Jefferson County Journal |
Crandall Found in Aberdeen, Washington |
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29 |
June 6, 1928 |
Watertown Daily Times |
Pay $2,500 Award for Arrest of Kidnapper Error Here (I'm trying to locate this article) |
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29a |
August 10, 1928 |
Watertown Daily Times |
H. C. Fairbanks Gaining Weight |
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32 |
March 16, 1932 |
Democrat Chronicle |
Lindbergh Clue Leads Here |
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33 |
April 4, 1933 |
Binghamton Press |
Prison Board Weighs Parole for Fairbanks |
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42 |
July 27,1942 |
Schenectady Gazette |
Alexanderson Kidnaper Arrested Again |