Word: kinderhook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...KINDERHOOK, N. Y., July 10.-Sought by state troops, Boy Scouts and posses of citizens since his disappearance Wednesday, James Wynkop Roney, nine-year-old son of Garner P. Roney, an assistant city editor of The Herald Tribune, was found drowned in Kinderhook Creek here today...
...after hours of effort it was found by Frank Gearing, chauffeur for Mrs. Franklin Townsend of Albany, who repeatedly risked his own life in attempts to bring it to the surface, so tightly was the body enmeshed in underwater weeds. A rowboat and grappling irons were brought overland from Kinderhook Lake and the body was secured...
Garner P. Roney is a newspaperman by instinct and by virtue of long training in the practices and traditions of his profession. He recovered the body of his only son from a creek near Kinderhook yesterday; but even while he was broken by the greatest sorrow of his life, he realized that the finding of the boy's body was news and that his paper should have it. So he went to the telegraph office and wrote the story for what it was worth as news, wrote it as calmly and as dispassionately as if the boy had been...