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Connr Jury Say Man in Burning House Committed Suicide himself on July a coroners Jury said Tuesday Oct IS Iters was no suicide note or hint to Mends that he had decided to kill himself Presentation of the facts surrounding the Involved witnesses and exhibits body was ft In his bouse i barn separate from the reduced Itself to ashes In anotl blaie Hew The Jury evidently the belief of pathologist r VR Waldorf that a bruise on aback of the head had been by fall against a after he shot himself To body was partially propped up the dresser when first seen The jury John any Charles Thomas Oliver Urn Gage and Robert all residents of Esqueslng Tom ship said that death d between 1 and a J The Inquest evidence revealed James Frank and their wives left the farm of Onil about a Both men had finished work the afternoon shift the Ft plant picked up their wives and gone to the residence As they drove east on a con cession road to Highway 25 they were startled to see a barn completely engulfed In flames and a house starting to bum At the same lime OPP Cor poral Jack was returning to the Hilton detachment from the scene of a fatal accident At am be drove into the detachment yard and then noticed a red glow In the sky towards Acton decided to check it out SMASHED GLASS and Jones reached the residence and quickly went to the bouse The flames were coming out of the comer of the house three feet like a blowtorch said Hlbbard Hlbbard smashed the glass in the front door window With no response to his shouts and eyes watering from the smoke which belched through the broken window Hlbbard told Jones to go and get the fire brigade Jones left went back to the windows but could see nothing inside window which was in bedroom He could see no movement and no one answered bis shouts There were no flames in the room but there was some smoke The body of Roger Lapointe was lying 1015 feet from the window although be was not to be discovered for about minutes Jack had been wakened by the continuous blaring of a car horn He opened the door and Frank Jones told nun to call the fire brigade No explanation was needed because Tattoo could see the fire when he opened the door CALLED BRIGADE He called the brigade He dressed went back outside and saw his neighbour Lloyd Foster who had also been awakened by the born With no sign of the brigade Foster at Tatton surging called again Foster then went to the fire where he found Hlbbard trying to get the halfton pickup truck away from the house had a cut on his arm from breaking windows As soon as the truck was away from the house Foster ran to the bedroom window With no sign of Lapointe outside Foster was sure that was where he was He called and got no answer He could see the bed which looked slept in but was empty Co and PC Pringle had arrived at a jn arrived the bam was a mass of flames a small shed near the bam was smoking and the south corner of the house was burning The fire brigade arrived at had looked In Ihe bedroom window but the smoke was too dense and he could see nothing SAW BODY Then Foster looked In again about and saw Lapointe lying on the floor He called for the police and firemen Norman Price a member of the Acton brigade tried to Into the room through the wine but his oxygen tanks made It Impossible He went through a rear window instead Crouching low to stay in coaler air he had difficulty hoisting onto the bed As the heat KOt to him he tied a rone to arm passing the other end out of the window Prices son also a fireman came in and managed to get Lapointe to the window While going to the bed he had tripped on something on the floor He dldn t know what was but he later saw a rifle on floor The firemen had ignored the burning barn as beyond saving and concentrated their efforts on the house The flames were almost out himself before any smoke from the house fire got Into the bedroom because there was no carbon monoxide in his blood as there would have been CHEERFUL Pathologist VR Waldorf said his autopsy of the body revealed that Lapointe his skull although his heart continued to beat for a few moments He had been outwardly cheerful with everyone he met the previous day although considering bankruptcy because his continuing efforts to run a profitable farm had failed At some point that morning decided to bum the bam and the house In view of his suicide It must be assumed that Lapointe set the fires before shooting himself Whoever set the fires was In a hurry Rather than uncouple a hose from a sink faucet in the garage he cut it with a butcher knife and left the knife on a window sill He went to the truck In the driveway and dropped the trucks gas cop and the cap of a five gallon can into the grass After siphoning gasoline into the can he dropped the hose beside the caps No evidence was shown on how bom fire started but it was after a m Fire Investigator Terry Murray estimated the bam fire started 1530 minutes before discovery SPRINKLE GAS In the house he sprinkled gasoline around the Kitchen Another fire In the living room amy have been started with gasoline although no evidence of ft could be found Traces of gasoline were round on the boots ilnte was wearing the flames took hold after Attention FARMERS SHERIDAN COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY IN COOPERATION WITH The Ontario School for the Deaf Milton will offer the courses si DEAFMILTON All courses are General Interest Course Courses Classes will be small and come first served basis students given first preference In all courses Registration may be made by mall or on the first night COURSES Language For The Deaf Deaf Students Only English For New Canadians Total Communications Finger spelling sign language sewing Crafts At Home Entertaining Personal Grooming Gym It Swim Typing Registration fee Keypunch Training Deaf Students Only Woodworking Machine Shop Practise Welding Auto Body Repair Mechanical Drafting Offset Printing Letterpress COURSE For further information contact Sheridan College Continuing Education Division Trafalgar Road Phone Oakvllle Slrctlsvllle and picked up the rifle A live shell found on the floor may Indicate haste In loading the gun He jammed three shells In turned It on himself and fired Before m on July Roger called Lloyd Young a chartered accountant In Guelph Young who never saw told him that his description of his financial problems might I indicate that he could declare bankruptcy ILASFDFARM The farm was leased His livestock equipment and the truck were under chattel mor to the Bonk of Montreal In Acton with three loans totalling almost II Bank manager Edward Pratt said that Lapointe was behind In his payments but technically not in arrears because he was keeping the bank fully informed of his financial position Young told Laoalnlc he need cash to flic for three alternative shoot or bankruptcy then himself run away or If having filed the papers he declare bankruptcy could leave to go to Eastern Canada where he had a friend Young trying to humour who would give him a Job He Lapointe said Came and sec could me you two fee- l LETS PLAY BRIDGE By BILL COATS defender cards your partner Sometimes you do know and It WEST dcesn t make defense any A easier The times that you know K are the times when your partner 10 has no high cards at all Here is A 8 an example from last week at the Acton Bridge Club SOUTH North dealt with North South SJ7 vulnerable A J NORTH SKQ53 CJB7 J EAST S10 3 DB6 C The llktrflng Wilt I II AST SOUTH WhST PASS PASS INT at PASS2NT PASS PASS NT Opening lead hearts Personally I would Souths hand one no trump Ills balanced and contains 16 hi cord However sequence at the table was in icresiing especially after West bid no trump and then North South played the hand in three no West can be almost positive that his partner has no high card points South has bid strongly and North came into the auction freely at the two levels The entire defence is up to West Fortunately the bidding has indicated tho best opening lead LOOKS IT OVER On heart lead dummy contributed the nine East covered with the ten and declarer won While declarer was deciding how to play the hand West was looking at his hand and at dummy West knew that his partner could not help Since declarer had opened with one diamond declarer probably did have four hearts Therefore East should have five hearts or more and if one tnem was the tight maybe the defense could do something Declarer decided to tackle the club suit first West ducked once but hod to win the second lead West lead the heart king and after a brief hesitation declarer won Declarer ran off his three club tricks West discarded three spades and East parted with two diamonds and a spade CASIILD lit Declarer had to lead a spade and West won with the ace He cashed the heart queen and lead the seven to his partner East overtook with the eight and look with oks how come three declarers j with his last If all this looks easy w come three decla made ten tricks with the North South cards at no trump 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