Ernest Welch at left, undated,
with and Harlow Wheeler, center, and Ray Burmaster, at right.
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Ernest F. Welch was a Game Protector.
Lake Placid News, April 27, 1934
Doe Has Long Battle With Dogs, Ends in Lake
A savage wild life fight of the Adirondack woods was carried into view of scores of persons in Saranac Lake Sunday by two ferocious dogs and a doe. The torn and bloody sides of the deer gave evidence of its fight for life as it came out of the woods beyond Payeville, fleeing before a chow dog and a hound. With the dogs at its heels, the doe plunged into Lake Flower, leaving the dogs baying on the bank.
Swimming laboriously to the Riverside drive shore, a quarter of a mile across the lake, the doe was frightened back into the water by a gathering crowd. Struggling in the icy water between the crowds on either bank for half an hour, it was close to exhaustion when Inspector Ray L. Burmaster and Game Protector Ernest Welch of the conservation department were summoned.
Setting out from Lake Flower avenue shore in a row boat, Protector Welch herded the frightened deer to Riverside drive shore, where Inspector Burmaster dispersed the crowd. Mounting the bank, the doe feebly loped into the woods beyond the drive, followed by the conservation officers.
A short distance within the woods the deer fell exhausted. Guarded by the officers at a discreet distance, it lay there nearly two hours before regaining strength and disappearing in the woods.
Tupper Lake Free Press and Herald, August 3, 1939
Saranacan Arraigned Here for Carrying Loaded Gun in Car
Elmer Parmenter, 23, of Saranac Lake was arraigned before Justice James H. Powers here yesterday on a charge of carrying a loaded gun in his car, in violation of Sec. 170 of the Conservation law.
The arrest was made by Game Protector Ernest Welch, formerly of Tupper, near Willis Pond on July 23 at 7:10 p.m. Two companions of Parmenter settled by civil compromise. Parmenter was fined $16 and a 15-day sentence to Franklin county jail was suspended.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, March 14, 1952
STATE IS SUING 2 FOR ALLEGED GAME VIOLATION
Supervisor Francis Earle, of Duane, and Ernest Welch, a former game protector, of McCollums, are being sued by the State Conservation Department for allegedly killing deer out of season.
Both men were acquitted of a similar charge last January by a verdict brought in by a Franklin County criminal jury.
Alleged conservation violations may be attacked from the criminal and civil angles separately and that is why the present civil suit has been brought now.
Earle and Welch were apprehended by game protectors last September for the second time within a year on a charge of taking deer out of season. They were indicted under a misdemeanor, pleaded innocent and won the case. Supervisor Harold Soden, of Lake Placid, defended them in the criminal action.
Earle and Welch are being sued for $500 each. Game protectors say that in October, 1950, each paid $100 in civil compromise for taking a deer out of season.
