Looking Back: April 17 – Laredo Morning Times

100 years in the past

Human smuggling arrests

Marcial Dupre, a Canadian who was arrested in Hudson within the firm of six Chinese language males he was taking to New York Metropolis, was introduced together with the opposite males to Albany by Division of Justice brokers to be arraigned on fees of violating the immigration act. Vials of an unknown substance had been additionally discovered on the boys and had been taken for evaluation, regardless of the arrested males’s claims that they had been simply “ache soothers.” The boys had been arrested on account of the actions of Joseph Sagerin, a Schenectady chauffeur Dupre had employed to move the boys to New York. Sagerin knew nothing of the boys’s nationality till they reached Albany and upon arriving in Hudson, he pretended to want a minor automotive restore. After getting a person to have a look at the engine, he contacted the police, who shortly arrived and arrested the seven males.

— Occasions Union, April 17, 1920

50 years in the past

Double kidney transplant success

Donna Flanigan, 27, would go dwelling from Albany Medical Middle Hospital at this time with one thing she did not have when she had checked in — a kidney. The Troy resident was one in all two recipients within the space’s first double kidney transplant operation on the night time of March 30. She and 43-year-old Louis E. Goitz of Albany every obtained a kidney from an adolescent who had died in an car crash. Flanigan mentioned she had kidney issues since she was three and in January 1969, her kidney had failed utterly and he or she had been present process dialysis remedies. Each transplanted kidneys had been functioning nicely and Goitz was anticipated to be discharged from the hospital quickly.

— Occasions Union, April 17, 1970

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