100 YEARS AGO

Skeleton discovered

Police of Albany’s Third Precinct were set to examine what was believed to be a human skeleton, discovered the day before by three boys in a marshy field along Loudonville Road not far from Wolfert’s Roost Country Club, in the rear of Michael F. Dollard’s Northern Boulevard property, as soon as the boys directed them to the spot. William Fox, son of James Fox, elevator man at the federal building, was leading two friends and neighbors — all three boys were around 13 years old — on a hike when they came upon the bones while crossing a section of swampy land. The Fox boy told his father that as far as they had examined before beating a hasty retreat home, there were only leg bones and a long, irregular strip resembling a spine visible, and that there were no clothes or other clues in the near vicinity.

—Times Union, May 8, 1922