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1900s |
- Clippings from the Chateaugay Record, 1900-1909
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1910s |
- Clippings from the Chateaugay Record, 1910-1919
- Story in the Plattsburg Sentinel, July, 1913:
Free Fight At Berry Camp - One camp had invited the other to attend a dance and when they arrived the fight started. Using stones as weapons the occupants of two berryilng parties in camp on what is known as the "Flat Rock" in the town of Altona engaged in a free fight Saturday night as a result of which several of the participants are nursing cut and bruised heads, and the sheriff holds warrants for seven of the men engaged in the melee. Charles Frederick, a young man belonging to the LaClair-Barnabee camp was brought to the county jail last night, by Sheriff Tierney and from him the following account of this disturbance was secured: The members of the camp to which he belongs were invited to attend a dance to be held at the Rivers camp on Saturday night. The invitation was accepted and early in the evening Frederick and several of his companions went to the Rivers camp, only to find that there was no dance. They had been sitting around the Rivers ramp a short time when Frank LaClair, one of their companions arrived upon the scene. The appearance of LaClair was apparently a signal for the Rivers crowd to "start things" for within a few minutes a general free fight was in progress, hostilities being opened "by striking LaClair over the head with a stone concealed in a stocking. During the fight Frederick was struck behind the ear with a stone and Peter Barnabee was stabbed in the hand. According to young Frederick John Rivers was the aggressor. It was he who struck LaClair with the stone in the stocking. During the fight the visiting berry-pickers evidently got in some good work, for Sunday when Sheriff Tierney went to the scene of the disturbance Edward Rivers was lying on a cot and apparently in a badly "battered” condition. After the fight John Rivers went before Justice of the Peace McMasters and made complaint against the LaClair-Barnabee crowd, and on this complaint seven warrants were issued.
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1920s |
- Clippings from the Chateaugay Record, 1920-1929
- Article in the Plattsburg Sentinel, June 24, 1927:
TWO BROTHERS TELL STORY OF BEING ROBBED - Troopers Fail To Find Any Clue; BOTH BEATEN UP LeClair Brothers Of Ellenburgh Center Show Marks Of Violence. A story of an Ellenburgh Center man and his brother who were hijacked by four unknown men and robbed of $660 after both had been beaten up severely, came to the attention of Trooper W. E. Dixon and P. Belmont, Troop B, stationed at Ellenburgh Depot late Tuesday night. Eli LeClair and his brother William made the complaint to the troopers. They stated as they were returning from a Canadian resort across the border, four unknown men jumped on the running board of their car and they presumed that the men wanted a ride. According to Ell LeClair when they crossed the international boundary line, three of the men jumped on him and the other man on his brother. They ordered the two brothers to hand over their money or be "killed.” Eli LeClair told Trooper Dixon he handed $560 over to one of the men. The two brothers then claimed they were badly beaten about the face and showed signs of mistreatment, the troopers stated. Trooper Dixon stated last night that he and Trooper Belmont have been working on the case but as yet have been unable to corroborate the LeClalr brothers story except to what they swear to.
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1930s |
- Clippings from the Chateaugay Record, 1930-1939
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1940s |
- Clippings from the Chateaugay Record, 1940-1949
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1950s |
- Clippings from the Chateaugay Record, 1950-1959
- June 3, 1955 - Gene LaClair rescued from trench after cave-in
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