WGY Radio Celebrates Its Fourth Year
Imagine a world in which the only long-distance communications were coded telegraph or the very expensive, one-to-one medium of long-distance telephone. No music from another town was ever heard unless […]
Imagine a world in which the only long-distance communications were coded telegraph or the very expensive, one-to-one medium of long-distance telephone. No music from another town was ever heard unless […]
While we’re on the topic, a little more about Ernst F.W. Alexanderson, who today is primarily remembered for his early role in the development of television. In fact, his home […]
After the return of Verner Alexanderson, kidnapped son of Schenectady radio scientist Dr. E.F.W. Alexanderson, it appeared that the kidnappers had vanished into Canada. Apparently, police never stopped looking for […]
It would only be three days after the 1923 kidnapping of Verner Alexanderson from his Schenectady home, and his father’s first-ever radio broadcast plea for help, that Verner would be […]
Hoxsie wouldn’t want to leave you with the impression that Schenectady had all the crime in the tri-cities in the early decades of the last century. Far from it. But […]
Schenectady police continued to work the case of the mysterious torso that was discovered in the Mohawk River in the summer of 1914. (Her head turned up on the Fourth […]
On June 21, 1914, Schenectady police were still puzzling out the mystery of the woman’s torso found in the Mohawk River days before. Police were working on the theory that […]
Schenectadians who had been shocked to learn, back on June 19, 1914, of the discovery of a woman’s torso in a weighted burlap sack submerged in the Mohawk River just […]
Sorry, Schenectady, but it’s still your turn for True Crime Fortnight. Just about 99 years ago, the region was gripped with the discovery of a gruesome murder. On Friday, June […]