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WILLIAM DERNHARD
[Welland Telegraph February 20, 1903]
Buffalo Feb 18—William Dernhard, one of the oldest residents of Fort Erie, suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from his home in that village last Saturday night by jumping into the Niagara River from the bow of the ferry boat Niagara, just after the boat put out from the Canadian shore.
Dernhard had been desponded for some time over the loss of his wife who died about a year ago. He had had considerable trouble it is said, and the arrest of his son, John “Buck” Dernhard, recently by the United States Government inspectors on the charge of smuggling Chinamen into this country is believed to have led the old man to self-destruction.
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