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McClelland ' Port Perry Star The assistant head tell- er at the Bank of Montreal - in Port Perry testified Monday how she and the assistant manager were forced at gunpoint to open the bank's vault after manager Al Knight had been shot above the knee ~ on the evening of October 20,1994. Sandra Hoskin was one of three witnesses called to the stand Monday as " the trial of Mitchiel Gor- don McArthur, 44, and his 31-year-old brother Angus Junior McArthur opened in Ontario Court of Jus- tice-General Division, Whitby, in front of Justice Harry LaForme, and a jury of six men and six women. The Kingston area brothers face 17 charges each, ranging from five counts of attempted mur- der of Mr. Knight, three Durham Police officers re- sponding to the 911 bank robbery call, and Debra Taylor, a realtor working in her office on the oppo- site side of Highway 7A from the bank branch in the Port Perry Plaza, who was struck by a bullet fired from the plaza. 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Ms. Hoskin, who had worked at the bank branch for just over two years when the incident took place 28 months ago, testified for just over an hour, telling crown attor- ney Lori-Ann Turner she first realized a robbery was taking place when one of the two balaclava-clad men shouted "this is a rob- bery, open the drawers." Both robbers, one slight- ly taller than the other, wore knee length top- coats and one carried a gun, about two feet long, she said. + After emptying the tell- er cash drawers, Ms. Ho- skin told the court the shorter of the two robbers then loudly ordered man- ager Knight to "open the (expletive) treasury now." "Treasury" is a banking term used to describe the inner safe where large sums of cash are stored, shesaid. * When Knight hesitated by shrugging his shoul- ders and saying "I can't," Ms. Hoskin said the short- er of the two robbers took a "smaller gun" (10-12 inch- es in length) from his ac- complice and shot the manager above the knee from arange of about eight feet. She heard the shot .and the manager fell to the floor. With the shorter robber still screaming "I want into the treasury," Ms. Ho- skin said she and assist- ant manager Catherine TRADITIONAL BURNS SUPPER & CEILIDH Immortal Memory by: Hugh Heron Catering by: "A Touch of Class" Ceilidh Featuring: The Leahy's Saturday, January 25, 1997 6:30pm at the Port Perry Arena & Community Centre Tickets $50.00 each Tickets available Port Perry Chamber of Commerce, Port Perry Star, Blue Heron Books, Presents, Presents or contact Stu Bennett (705) 357-3028 ALL PROCEEDS TO THE HIGHLANDS OF DURHAM GAMES TAX RECEIPTS AVAILABLE Fleming went into the vault area and began working the double set of combinations to open the vault door and the inner treasury. "IT could not seem to get the (combination) num- bers right," she quietly told the court. The shorter robber con- tinued to scream "you're taking too long," while the taller one said "take your time" in a much quieter voice. After emptying money from the treasury into a white bag, the pair fled through the bank's front doors and headed south along the plaza sidewalk, Ms Hoskin testified. There were three customers in the bank at the time, and at one point, she said, the shorter robber threatened to shoot one of them if the treasury was not opened in a hurry. Other witnesses includ- ed Kevin Dearborn, who testified he was driving on Highway 7A when he saw two people in long coats and balaclavas and one carrying a rifle walking on the north side of the bank. He turned his car around and drove to the nearby Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant where he called police 911 emergen- cy. Kentucky Fried Chick- en employee Rhonda Ste- vens told the court she got off work that evening at 7 p.m. and went to the bank to withdraw money from the cash machine at 7:24 p.m. While on the side- walk in front of the bank two men walked past her, both wearing balaclavas and one carrying a white bag. In his opening address to the jury, assistant crown counsel Michael Hill outlined a "review of the anticipated evidence" he and Ms. Turner will call from nearly 100 witnesses over the course of the trial, which could run 10-12 weeks. That evidence, he told the court, will include DNA tests which link sali- va found on a balaclava to saliva of Mitchiel McAr- - thur; fibres found in a red Camaro car owned by McArthur similar to fibres found in a van comman- deered by two men the night of the robbery from a Port Perry couple; a wit- ness who saw two men get- ting into a red Camaro near Port Perry Hospital that night; and how a quick thinking Durham Police detective traced the McArthur Camaro. The detective, who was driving north on the Oshawa Road will testify he noticed a red Camaro turn around to apparently avoid a road block. He mentally noted the licence number 600TEY, while he continued to drive to the scene of the robbery at the plaza. A check on the plate later that night revealed it belonged to the elder McArthur and led to the brothers' arrest the follow- ing morning in Kingston. Hill said he will also in- troduce evidence to show that shell casings fired by McArthur in a rural area near Kingston two months before the robbery and shootings, came from the same type of rifle used in the Port Perry incident. The shootings that night of Oct. 20, 1994 in- jured the bank manager Knight, real estate agent Deb Taylor, Durham de- tective Paul Mooy and Constables Warren Ellis and Paul McConkey, re- sponding in two police ve- hicles to the 911 emergen- cy call. And the incident rocked the normally quiet village of Port Perry to its very foundations. Angus McArthur is rep- resented by Toronto law- er Peter Zaduk, and his rother by Toronto lawyer Cindy Wasser. Both have entered not guilty pleas to the all the charges against them. Both accused sat quietly together during the first day of testimony, Angus dressed in a white and grey sweater and blue Joans, Mitchiel in a dark lue suit jacket, jeans and cream colored shirt.