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Paradox Lake

Remembering Murdered Game Warden William Jackson

September 9, 2020 by John Warren Leave a Comment

schroon lake murder headlineThe LaGoy brothers were rough. A neighbor near Severence, on the road between the village of Schroon Lake and Paradox Lake in the Adirondacks, once wrote a letter to a local newspaper asking for a telling retraction.

“I was not lost,” D.S. Knox wrote. “My wife was much excited by the delay of about an hour of time over due, thinking as I have an organic heart trouble, caused to give her alarm, and not ever thinking of any of the LeGoy family causing any harm as neither of us believe that any of the LeGoy family ever would cause any personal harm without a provocation.”

It was rather important to Knox to make it clear to the world, that even if his wife had been talking out of school, neither of them harbored any ill will toward the LaGoys. [Read more…] about Remembering Murdered Game Warden William Jackson

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, History Tagged With: Crime and Justice, Dannemora, Essex County, Forest Rangers, Mineville, Paradox Lake, Schroon Lake

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