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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1948 - PAGE NINE Baffling Crimes Puzzle Canada's Police In By E. M. CHANTLER - Canadian Press Staff Writer Brutal death did a danse macabre throughout Canada in 1947, snatch- ing - upwards of 100 lives in the grisliest crime year in the memory of law officers. The grotesque figure showed no partiality to sex or age, and its graph showed slayings that were callous, many premeditated and som. the result of depravity, a Canadian, Press survey reveals. This is last year's murder rec- ord, province by province: Ontario leads the list with 43 slayings, including late December's quadruple murder near Elmira in which the shot-gun killer commit- ted suicide after shooting four members of a drinking party. Four men are awaiting death by hanging in the slaying of Joseph Grant, Toronto prospector, and his assistant, Marcel Dulf®sneau; Rob- ert Todd, Wavell, Ont., pensioner; Betty Playford, Owen Sound, and the double murder of Mrs. M. Ru- ert and her infant son, Lee, near Bault Ste. Marie. Fourteen murder charges were faid in British Columbia. Of these tliree drew convictions; three were dismissed; three await trial, and five persons were convicted of manslaughter, In addition, there were two slayings in which 'no arrests have been made. "Two B.C. persons were sentenced t8 death; one executed; one appeal pending. In addition, 45 charges of manslaughter, mostly arising from traffic deaths, were heard. Of these, two persons drew convic- tions, 23 were dismissed, seven committed to trial and 11 were convicted of reckless driving. ; Alberta polie reported few seri- ous crimes. Seven charges of mur- der were laid but no death senten- ces were given. Sentences ran from 12 months to six years and several persons wepe found not guilty. Saskatchewan Record Both the R.C.M.P. and the attor- ney-general's department reported a general drop in Saskatchewan's crime record. Violent crimes total- led 347 in 1947 compared to 576 in 1946. Four murders were entered on police blotters. Murder and other killings from which criminal charges arose In Manitoba numbered 12. Five mur- der charges resulted in one ac- quittal, one reduced to manslaugh- ter, two awaiting trial and one un- solved. Two death sentences for murders committed in 1946 were passed. Montreal's homicide ' squad in- vestigated 13 murders and made vests in 11. They also arrested JPred Bussey, convicted sex-slayer of Betty Playford at Owen Sound, Ong. I of killings were: two fatal abortions; seven love murders--in- cluding three stranglings--one rob- bery; one the result of an argu- ment. Two have not been classi fied and one remains unsolved. Other arrests made by the Mont- real squad during 1947 resulted in the following charges: Abortions, one: manslaughter, five; attempt- ed murder, four; grievous assault, 16; rape, nine; hit-and-run and dangerous driving, eight. In ancient Quebec City, there was little major crime. No murders were recorded and two or three attempted murder charges result- ing from fatal brawls were re- duced. Earlier ip the year, Lorenzo Langelier, 26, was scheduled to be hanged for the 1946 slaying of Joseph Thibodeau. but his sentence was commuted to life imprison- ment. Two New Brunswick murder trials ended in manslaughter con- victions with sentences of four and eight years. Most sensational crime | of 1947 was an attempted burglary of the Bank of Nova Scotia at Hampton last November. R.C.M.P. officers trapped three Montreal men in the building and shot one, Willie Shernuck, in'the thigh when he tried to escape. Cash and securi- des amounting to $500000 had been | rifled from safety deposit boxes. Murder and Suicide One murder and a suuicide oc- curred in Nova Scotia and several | manslaughter charges were laid. At Deep Brook, Army Sergeant Saaries MaDougall killed Nurse argaret Sherman with a revolver then fatally shot himself. British Scaman John Butterworth Hender- son was acquitted of manslaughter in the death of Clifford English, 61, found bound and gagged in his Pictou home. Later evidence show- ed English had suffered a heart seizure. Adelard Lorette was given 10 years for manslaughter in the death of Mrs. Rita Punch in a Hali- fax' rooming house. Of Ontario's 43 murders, a dozen remain unsolved and seven occur- red in Toronto. Two cases are in the doubtful status. Christine Kettlewell, bride of a few weeks, was found dead on the banks of the Severn River, a few feet away from her honeymoon cottage. How and by what means she met her death still puzzle po- lice. A coroner's jury left the ver- dict open. : The second doubtful case is that of Marion Jean Badgley, pretty Blonde secretary, whose body was found at her Frankford, Ont. home. She had been shot and a dis- charged rifle lay near her. An in- quest was oppened and adjourned pending further investigation. Other Ontario sensational mur- ders still without solution are: George Vigus, factory foreman, and Iris Scott, honey-blonde sccre- © tary, whose bodies were found crammed into the luggage com- partment of a car in a secluded section of Toronto's west-end High Park. Velair Vandebelt, Toronto nurse, strangled to death near Cochrane. Vicious Crime ; The most vicious murder in To- ron'o was the sex-slaying of tiny Arlene Anderson, a palsy victim, whose body was found in a field = few blocks from her Home. Po- | 600,000 United States lice say she was lured away, raped and strangled with her own "snug- gies." Dozens of suspects and known sex degenerates were ques- tioned but no arrests were made. Police still seek the killers of Ralph Margeson, taxi drier, shot to death and thrown into a ditch in Etobicoke Township, west of To- ronto, The death of Angelo Fonti, To- ronto dish washer and onetime petty bootlegger, whose body was found stuffed in a suburban cul- vert also remains unsolved. The restaurant where he worked had been robbed of $3,000 a week or so before Fonti's death, and police are inclined to link the crimes. No clue leading to an eR in the slaying of Melvin Sherk in his Cayuga, Ont., farmhouse has been uncovered. It was known that Sherk was robbed of a: large sum of money. Six other Ontario slayings were solved by persons listed as mur- derers committing suicide. Other unsolved murders include those of Albert Richer, Geraldton, Ont. taxi driver; Sydney Hall, bank guard at Ailsa Craig, and John Blue, killed in front of a mid-town Toronto rooming house. The largest sum stolen was from two Toronto banks--more than $500,000 representing combined loot taken by thieves who smashed doz- ens of safety deposit boxes. .. Major Robberies Winnipeg experienced the larg- est robbery in its history when bbnds, jewelry and a large sum of cash valued at more than $150,000 were taken from a° north-end bank's safety deposit vault. Four arrests have been made, Looting of the vault followed two other major robberies: The daylight hold-up of J. M. Kingston, Winnipeg hotel proprietor, while he was leaving a downtown bank with $30,000. and the robbery of a west-central bank by two masked men who fled with about $7,000. Windsor, Ont, blamed Ulysse Lauzon, Mickey McDonald and Nicholas Minille, who escaped from Kingston penitentiary, for a $49,- 000 bank robbery--Ilargest in years. The three convicts are still being sought. Vancouver's most violent shoot- ing affair took the lives of two policemen and caused the. wound- | ing of a third in a battle with three | gunmen. One gunman was killed, one wounded and the third captured after-a melee that followed an al- leged attempt to rob a bank. The murderer of Sydney S. Pet- rie, bank manager of suburban Kitsilano, in a hold-up attempt, has not been captured. Sought in con- nection with the crime is Walter Puvlukoff for whom an intensive man-hunt was staged throughout the southern section of British Co- lumbia. Saskatchewan's spectacular crime of the year was the axe-slaying of Mrs. Mary McLaughlin at Rad- ville, 70 miles south of Regina. Her husband, John McLaughlin, 64, was later found not guilty' of murder by reason of insanity. Decline Reported Both Ottawa and Hull, Qu. po- lice reported a drop in major crimes. Ottawa had three man- slaughter cases, no murders, no esgcutions, no death sentences and only one large theft--a forgery. Hull had one manslaughter case arising from a traffic fatality and one bank robbery in which $3,000 was taken by three armed bandits who were subsequently captured and committed for trial, The case is still pending. Perhaps the stiffest term for armed hold-up in Ontario's history was given Glen Davis, 38, sentenced to life imprisonment as "a poten- tial murderer" by a Windsor mag- istrate. Davis was cornered in a store he had robbed of $87 and chose to shoot his way out. He was shot in the arm. He pleaded guilty. Quebec City had a rare bank robbery in the closing months of the year and one man (Raymond Seguin of Verdun, Que.) was ar- rested on the spot and later sen- tenced to 15 years. In the immediate area of Quebec City, R.C.M.P. squads seized some cigarettes smuggled across the border. For possession of 34,000 of them, one man received a three-year term. "NEW LOOK" CRITICIZED Toronto, Jan, 14 -- (CP) -- The "new look" in women's clothing cri- ticized last night by Rev. J. R. Mut- cmor, Secretary of Evangelism and Social Service of the United Church of Canada, as he told a church meeting that controls, needed in winning the war, "are essentials also for winning the peace." Send More Police To Doukhobor Centre of Unrest Yellow Sales Tickets Vancouver, Jan, 14--(CP)--Attor- ney General Gordon Wismer sald last night that 10 more police had been sent to the British Columbia interior, storm-centre of Doukho- bor unrest, "for the protection of people and property.' He said in an interview he had been in cnfeence earlier with Judge H. J. Sullivan, special commissioner appointed by the B. C. Government, to investigate the Doukhobor prob- lem. Judge Sullivan recently ter- minated his investigations until ac- tion is taken "to clean up" incessant pillaging and burning in the Koot- enay Valley. Judge Sullivan has turned in a report, Mr, Wisner said. Which "in- dicates a vety serious situation par- ticularly among The Sons of Free- dom sect." "It is obvious we have to take some firm action." Doukhobor strife in the last half- century has resulted in the loss of more than' $1,000,000 worth of pro- perty and '10 lives, Last fall 42 Doukhobors were sentenced to terms in penitentiary totalling more than 300 years for "arson and riot- ous burning." Charge Pair In Attempted Store Robbery Toronto, Jan. 14--(CP)--Caught in a police dragnet that was spread in hopes of recapturing Donald (Mickey McDonald and Ulysse Lauzon, two Toronto men were to appear in court today on charges of attempted robbery. The attempted robbery of a gro- cery store at Thornton, 45, miles north of Toronto, late yesterday spurred reports that McDonald and Lauzon were in the vicinity, The two bandits. escaped from Kingston Penitentiary last Aug. 18 with Nick Minille, another long-termer, After the North Yonge Street Highway between Toronto and Thornton became crowded with po- lice cruisers, the two suspects were arrested at a service station just north of here. They were James Martin and Edward Williams, both 25 years old, both of Toronto. They were returned to the Barrie district for questioning before the charge was laid. William Fry, owner of the Thorn- ton grocery, said that a man had entered his store and loitered for some time. When the proprietor heard a click that "sounded like the safe door," which stood open, he and a neighboring merchant gave chase to the fleeing suspect. He escaped in a car driven by an accomplice, Government Considers Ceiling On Butter Ottawa, Jan. 14--(CP)--The gov- ernment has under consideration re-imposition of a price ceiling on butter in the face of a price and consumption rise since the ceiling was "lifted last June, but Finance Minister Abbott said last night after a meeting of cabinet that he had no statement to make on implemen. tation to such action. He was commenting on a Mont- real dispatch which quoted The Montreal Gazette as saying it had been learned reliably that an an- nouncement "may be made within 24 hours" on re-imposition of the ceiling. - Two Miners Killed By Fall of Rock Kirkland Lake, Jan. 14--(OP)-- Trapped in a 25-ton fall of rock, Harry R. Brady, 52, and Kenneth Gill, 38, were crushed to death yes- terday in the Teck-Hughes Gold Mine. Brady was a native of West- ern Canada who came here 10 yedrs ago. Mine officials sald the men were doing re-timbering work on the 4,000-foot level when loose rock in an adjoining section was dislodged and crashed on them, Gill, son of the mine's under- ground superintendent, was engag- ed to be married in June to a local nurse. Brady was the father of three children, THE DAILY TIMES-CAZETTE Look for the Spectacular Savings! HOSIERY AND HARDWOOD FLOORING Oak, Maple, Ash Now Available, Hardwood Floors Laid, Sanded and Finished "Estimates Free" M. LEGGETTE PHONE 3744W1 eo wv ewww Oshawa and District Liberal Association GENERAL MEETING "GENOSHA HOTEL ® Friday, January 23rd Guest Speaker DAVID M. CROLL, M. P. All Liberals are cordially invited. R. E. McMullen, President. / R. A. WALLACE, Secretary. A dn da da A A A A da da de 2 ATKINS icin -- 5 SIMCOE ST. S.-- PHONE 162 ...IT'S HERE AGAIN FOLKS!...OUR "ONCE-A-YEAR" STOCK DISPOSAL YELLOW { Starts Tomorrow 9.00 A.M. ) SALES TICKETS Yes] It's here again! 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