Feb 1, 2021
Wednesday, Oct. 28, 1904 started out quietly enough in Gloversville, but before the day ended, one man was shot and another arrested for attempted murder, a charge soon elevated to murder when the victim died, and it was all about nothing more significant than a quarrel over an unlicensed dog.
As the Feb. 23, 1905 Fulton County Republican retold it at the time of the second trial, it was a warm late October day and 13-year-old William Rohr was sitting on the front stoop of the family home on Third Street with his older brother Charles when Gloversville dog catcher Jeptha Johnson they weren’t called Animal Control Officers in our old times opened the gate and entered their yard, looking for the Rohr family’s dog.