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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.



Ref.
No.

Date

Name of Newspaper

Title/Topic/Content

1

May 1, 1923
May 2, 1923
May 1, 1923
May 1, 1923
May ?, 1923

Watertown Daily Times
Watertown Daily Times
Watertown Daily Times
Watertown Daily Times
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

19

May 1,1923

Watertown Daily Times

Get Kidnappers at Any Price

6

May 1, 1923

Watertown Daily Times

Kiah Taken Before Ingram

2

May 3, 1923
May 3, 1923

Watertown Daily Times
Watertown Daily Times

Search Islands for Kidnappers
Ogdensburg: Cadillac Belongs to Kiah

2

May 3, 1923
May 3, 1923

Watertown Daily Times
Watertown Daily Times

Find New Angle In Kidnapping
Boy May Be Victim of Moral Pervert
Another Possible Clue In Kidnapping Found

2e

May 3, 1923

Watertown Daily Times

Overnight Developments - Verner Alexanderson Found

2h

May 3, 1923

Watertown Daily Times

Thought Hiding in Montreal

3

May 4, 1923

Watertown Daily Times

Boy's Abductors Not Yet Found

3

May 4,1923

Watertown Daily Times

Kidnapped Boy, 6, Sought Since
   Monday, United With Parents   Here

7

May 4, 1923
May 4, 1923

Watertown Daily Times
Watertown Daily Times

Mrs. Grinell Used As Tool
Fairbanks, 'Guy About Town'

16

May 4,1923

Watertown Daily Times

Jarvis Identifies Fairbanks' Photo

20

May 4, 1923

Watertown Daily Times

Jarvis To Seek $2,000 Reward

11

May 4,1923

Watertown Daily Times

City Mecca for Newspaper Men

12

May 5,1923

Watertown Daily Times

Family Happy, Off For Home

13

May 5,1923

Watertown Daily Times

Hundreds Greet Boy

14

May 5,1923

Watertown Daily Times

Scour Montreal for Abductors

17

May 5, 1923
May 5, 1923

Watertown Daily Times
Watertown Daily Times

Say Men Seen at Sandy Creek
  Crandall Telegram Contradicts Story

10

May 5, 1923

Watertown Daily Times

Kidnappers Seen Here Thursday

20

May 7,1923

Schenectady Gazette

Verner Tells His Own Story of Kidnapping

20-a

May 7,1923

Schenectady Gazette

Whole Family of Bunnies Greeted Verner On Return

20-b

May 7,1923

Schenectady Gazette

Finding of Boy Work of Papers, Father Asserts

20-c

May 7,1923

Schenectady Gazette

Theresa, A Peaceful And Quiet Little Village

20-z

May 11,1923

Watertown Daily Times

Seeress Tells of Kidnapping

13b

May 13,1923

Watertown Daily Times

Bail For Women Fixed at $15,000

13z

May 13,1923

Watertown Daily Times

Detectives Take Three Women to Schenectady

23

May 14,1923

Watertown Daily Times

Crandall May Be in Mexico

18

May 17, 1923

Watertown Daily Times

Women Are Held For Grand Jury

18a

May 17, 1923

Watertown Daily Times

Trainmen Watch for Kidnappers

23a

June 1,1923

Watertown Daily Times

No Indictments at Schenectady

23b

June 1,1923

Watertown Daily Times

Jarvis Receives $1,000 of Reward

15

June 4,1923

Watertown Daily Times

Man Held May Be Fairbanks

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

21

June 20, 1923

Watertown Daily Times

Verner Tells of Kidnapping

4

June 21,1923

Schenectady Gazette

Attorney In Hot Tilts for Kidnapping Case

13a

June 22,1923

Watertown Daily Times

Hendricks and Blessing Clash

8

June 22,1923

Schenectady Gazette

Jury Gets Kidnapping Case Today

9

June 23,1923
June 25, 1923

Schenectady Gazette
Schenectady Gazette

Woman Who Had Verner Acquitted
Women Held In Kidnapping Case Released on Bail

13b

June 25, 1923

Schenectady Gazette

Woman Held in Alexanderson Case to
    be Let Out

22

June 27,1923

Watertown Daily Times

Man Held May Be Fairbanks

5

April 26,1924

Watertown Daily Times

Alexandria Bay Man Arrested (in Manitoba)

5a

April 28,1924

Watertown Daily Times

Suspect Is Not Harry Fairbanks

31a

July 22, 1925

Schenectady Gazette

Kidnapper Mum On Motive

31

November 6, 1926

Watertown Daily Times

Six Fairbanks Captors Share

30

October 12,1927

Jefferson County Journal

Crandall Found in Aberdeen, Washington

29

June 6, 1928

Watertown Daily Times

Pay $2,500 Award for Arrest of Kidnapper
Error Here (I'm trying to locate this article)

29a

August 10, 1928

Watertown Daily Times

H. C. Fairbanks Gaining Weight

32

March 16, 1932

Democrat Chronicle
Rochester, N. Y.

Lindbergh Clue Leads Here

33

April 4, 1933

Binghamton Press

Prison Board Weighs Parole for Fairbanks

42

July 27,1942

Schenectady Gazette

Alexanderson Kidnaper Arrested Again