Sept. 3, 1937

Thirty-four Sing Sing Prison inmates were brought to Auburn Tuesday night. The trip to the prison was made in a special coach attached to the New York Central Passenger train.

Sept. 3, 1957

Bob Harding, who was a sensation, while twirling softball for Sampson Air Force Base team a few years back, is still as sharp as ever on the mound. The clever moundsmen pitched the West End Club to the championship of the Oswego Invitation Tournament with three straight shutout victories Saturday and Sunday.

Sept. 3, 1997

A jury must decide today whether it believes Cayuga Bank and its former president or a woman who claims they squandered her $640,000 inheritance.

Attorneys for both sides of the $5 million civil lawsuit filed by Ethel Coty against the bank and Robert Steigerwald, its former president and chief executive officer, appealed to the jury to believe their clients' story. The suit relates to Steigerwald and the bank's handling of Coty's inheritance and subsequent management of her accounts between June 1977 and December 1992. Cayuga Bank has filed a counter claim against Coty in an effort to collect $290,931 in unpaid loan balances plus nearly $120,000 of interest.

Sept. 3, 2002

Jim Patsos has been showing his dairy cows at the New York State Fair since Dwight Eisenhower was in the White House. Patsos, 56, a second-generation farmer from Waterloo, was just 11 years old when he displayed his first dairy cow at the fair just outside of Syracuse.

- Compiled by Linda Simmons