MURDER SCENE OF LONG AGO? — The Jefferson County Courthouse was the setting of a story told by Paul Zuros, director of Historic Fort Steuben, during a special presentation held at Toronto’s Main Street Museum on Oct. 19. Zuros told those in attendance of how a woman once jumped out the courthouse window to her death after being found guilty of murdering a jailer who forbid her to see the sheriff, with whom she was in love. The courthouse is next to an area where long ago, public floggings occurred to those who disobeyed the laws. -- Warren Scott

TORONTO — Visitors to Toronto’s Main Street Museum learned of a darker side to the city and Jefferson County’s past with the sharing of macabre stories by a special guest, members of the Historical Society of Toronto and others on Oct. 19.

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