Oct 13 Antagonist Profiles

Former Schoharie sheriff
The tall, pudgy former Schoharie County sheriff stood 6’ 4”, weighed 255 lbs. Graying blond hair topped his medium build body. He had dark blue eyes and possessed a crooked smile. He has known the Michaux family, Longfellow’s maternal side, all of his mother’s life.

He won election at the age of 30 due to his military police record, one that had been kept away from the public. He was not corrupt, but did harbor resentment over the Michaux family, because they owned so much of the county and would not back him.

Etienne LaPierre, Jr, a former seminary student.
He read the “Silver Coins” when he was a student at St. Joseph’s in Philadelphia, then reread it while attending seminary school a few years later. The story told sounded like what he had been told for most of his life: That French pirates had come to the Colonies to find a treasure that Italian sailors and Polish mercenaries had delivered and hid from Protestants in the 1720s. He found that Longfellow’s family knew of its location and was bound and determined to rescue the 30 pieces and return them to their rightful owners, the LaPierres.