PHOTOS
In this photo printed in the Times on Sept. 1, 1943, three German prisoners of war who had been captured on the St. Lawrence-Depauville Road at Smiths Corners leave immigration headquarters in Clayton. They were being taken by border patrol agents to the Thousand Islands International Bridge to be returned to Canadian officials. The three, all merchant seamen, were the last of 19 war prisoners who had fled historic Fort Henry at Kingston, Ont., the week before. They were captured by an off-duty border patrol inspector, George W. Gale, as they stopped to pick apples. In front is Ernst Muench and behind him, Heinz Wirtz. Coming through the door is Senior Immigration Border Patrol Inspector Eugene Maroney of Clayton. Behind him, his head just visible, is the third prisoner, Capt. Wilhelm Joesting.
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