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rr McGillivray, R. 299 Jan. 31 ik HAILEYBURIAN Vol. 26; No. 39 HAILEYBURY, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY Ist, 1931 Subscription Rate: $2.00 per yea om Violent Deaths Mar Cobalt's Christmas Day Girl Commits Suicide by Strychnine Poisoning and Man Dies from Drinking Wood Alcohol; Inquest Held Friday Reveals No Definite Cause ------- ---- How two tragedies marred ne Christmas holiday in Cobat is told! in the following story from the; local correspondent of the North Bay Nugget: "How a 17-year-old girl helped | prepare for a Christmas celebra-| tion and then went upstairs in, he aunt's home and took sufficient | strychnine to cause her death in} the Mines Hospital less than four! hours later, was told to Dr. W. C.} Arnold, coroner, of Haileybury, and a jury at an inquest held on Friday afternoon over the body of Eva Guertin, victim of a holi- day season tragedy. No motive for the girl's act could be sug- gested by relatives, although it was stated that she was of a ner- vous type and given to tears on slight provocation, and the jury returned a verdict of suicide while temporarily under great mental distress. The police heard of this tragedy only when they went to investi- gate another Christmas Day death ,Sergeant Geo. Delves, of the provincial police force, told the court, and this discovery was not made until some hours after the girl's death, and while the police were at the morgue en- quiring into the case of Leonard Kujanpaa, 33-year-old Finn, who died in the hospital from the ef- fects of drinking wood alcohol. An inquest into this death was scheduled for Saturday afternoon but it appeared clear from the enquiries made that Kujanpaa took the stuff under the mistaken idea that it was a sort of corn| whiskey. He had been in this country only since last Summer. His wife is in Europe. Relatives who gave evidence regarding the Guertin girl in- cluded her aunt, Mrs. Eva Huard, a sister, Mrs. Jeanette Gagne, and an uncle, Alex. Boucher. None of them know of any rea- son why the girl should take her own life, and the woman agreed that she had been in good health, although given to fits of nervous depression. The aunt, with whom Miss Guertin had been staying for the past six weeks, said the girl was not liked by an uncle, and while there was some mention made of a man named Morin, a recent acquaintance of the girl's, it was made clear this man had not arrived at the home of Mrs. Huard, 175 Lang Street, until after Miss Guertin had gone upstairs on her fatal mission. It was when Mrs. Gagne went to tell her sister that Morin had come that she learned Miss Guer- tin had taken strychnine, which she had found in a bottle contain- ing a quantity of the poison. This stuff, Sergeant Delves said, had been purchased on January 8th, 1929, by Armand Lemay, a form- er roomer at the Huard home, and he had got the strychnine to poison foxes. When he left, Mrs. Huard swore, the bottle, which originally contained an ounce, had been placed in a punch set, and her niece had been warned not to touch it. Dr. G. A. Schmidt who attended the girl, said she for Girl's Action Goes to India With Viceroy Willingdon E. C. Mieville, C.M.G., Private Secretary \to His Excellency the Governor-General of Canada, who is going to India with Viscount Willingdon in March, when His Excellency takes over the Vice- royship of India. had told him she had not known what was in the "brown bottle," and that she had denied having been in any trouble. Mrs Huard said the niece had been crying during the afternoon of Christmas Eve, and also, she had been told, while witness was out shopping the same night. On her return, however, the girl was again in good humor, had_ been down with an uncle to get the Christmas cake, helped to decor- ate the Christmas tree and had prepared to go to midnight mass. She changed her mind about church, the aunt said, bade the people in the house "good-bye" and went upstairs. Mrs. Gagne followed soon after, and her cry for help when she found her sis- ter, was drowned by the radio. She ran downstairs, met Boucher, who went up at once, only to be told by the girl it was "too late." Miss Guertin would not take milk offered her at the house, witnesses said, and she was plac- ed in a car and rushed to Dr. Schmidt's office. Here she was given emetics, but subsequently developed convulsions and was sent over to the hospital She died about half-past three on Christmas morning. Three anda half hours later, Kujanpaa, who had gone blind, succumbed to the effects of the wood alcohol he had taken two days before. The man's condition was not learned until late on Christmas Eve, when he was taken to hospital and Dr. Schmidt called. Inform- ation subsequently obtained by the.police came from his partner, Y Mannisto, who had been absent from the place where the men had been living when the fatal potion had been taken. Members of the provincial and local police force spent a con- siderable part of Christmas Day investigatifg the circumstances (Continued on Page 4) afd dy day dl dp dd raya PY 4 » A Hap ¥ New : ear 4 CAAA SSE Stee tei StSr siete sic at eter ei gtete act as eter et es % We wish at this time to offer % *f our thanks for a generous share i ¥ one and all aH # of your patronage during the %¢ | past twelve months and wish appy and Pros- i is | and was born in China. a perous New Year. » Bryan-Knechtel Pharmacy # ay "The Prescription Druggists" Bi} @, FERGUSON AVE. PHONE S8 §HAILEYBURY * PEN EE REE CE CE CECB CBE ABCC he Fear Many Lives Lost in Hotel Fire at Cochrane Proprietor Dies in Heroic Effort to Save Wife and Family as Flames Sweep Queen's Hotel; Ten Known Dead Tues- day and Search May Reveal Many More At least ten are dead as the re-; building being erected. A thor- sult of a fire which swept the!ough investigation into all the Queen's Hotel, Cochrane, in the circumstances concerning the early hours of Monday morning iMeee WOO isto De vantails by. w - z *| Magistrate E. R. Tucker, who is Christmas Cheer Fund Helps ? Forty-Seven Families Here Number is Greater Than in Past Years, But Sufficient Money is Contributed to Provide for All; Turkey Stag, Rotary Club and I. O. D. E. Large Donors Mr. Justice Sedgwick --_ With sufficient money to pro- vide for all the needy families in town, the committee handling the Christmas Cheer Fund in Hailey- bury this year packed and distri- of the ruins of the completed the victims may reach twice that number. The build- ing, which was of brick construc- tion, was completely destroyed and the speed at which the flames eat their way through the entire structure prevented any attempt at rescue when the fire brigade arrived on the scene. and it is feared that when searchi building is! ;also coroner for the district, and it is thought that the Provincial Fire Marshall will be asked to send a representative to the in- |quest on the victims. Provincial | Police took charge of the work jof searching the ybuilding and worked ruins -of the with the firemen in attempting to find the bodies of other possible victims: Among the known dead are! the proprietor, Charles Palangio, | his wife and their four children, j ranging in age from two years to! 14. The father perished in an! heroic attempt to rescue his wife! and little sons, after he had suc- ceeded in helping another man to} safety, believing that the family had escaped. All had perished before the firemen had arrived on the scene. From accounts reaching here, the fire had gained great head- way before it was discovered, al- though 15 minutes before it was first seen the town constable had looked into the hotel and found nothing amiss. A large number of men out of work were in the habit of occupying parts of the building, and it is feared that many of these may have lost their lives. The fire raged from between four and five o'clock in the morn- ing until noon, despite the best efforts of the fire brigade, and it was not till after this that search could be started. The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Palangio and _ the children were taken from the ruins, together with one or two others, and the work of search- ing for other victims was pro- ceeding at last reports. The building stood directly op- posite the railway station and it was men engaged in the yards there who first saw the fire. Sev- eral other members of the Palan- gio family, including the father, James Palangio Sr., occupied a- partments in the building, but all reached safety except those stat- ed. It is said that although the building was three storeys in height, there was only one stair- Way giving egress from the up- per floors. Part of the ground floor was occupied by a drug store, which was also destroyed, and a soup kitchen at the rear had been used to furnish meals to the unemployed, many of whom roomed in the hotel, at a reduced rate. James Palangio Sr. operates the only employ- ment office in Cochrane, where the family are old residents. It is stated that the building had been burned dow *n 1911, rebuilt and again destroyed in 1916. Following the last con- flagration, the basement only was used for a time, later a new Christmas Day Is Date of Lake Freezing Over Stays Open Later Than Any Fall Since 1923 and Freezes Up in Mild Weather December 25th, Christmas Day is the date for the ice to form on Lake Temiskaming this year, ac- cording to the best judgment possible from this point. This is the latest date for the lake to remain open since 1923, when the ice did not form completely a- cross until December 30th. We have no definite records for the years previous to that, but some of the older residents remember similar occurrences in the earlier years For the past two years the freeze-up has taken place on De- cember 8th, in 1926 it was De- cember 4th, the earliest date we have on record, and in 1925 the lake remained open until Decent- ber 21st. In view of the mild winter weather that the district has' experienced so far, it was not expected that the ice would form as early as it did. The ice formed under rather peculiar circumstances this year, as it was quite mild during the early part of last week. Tues- day afternoon, however, it could be seen that the lake was thick- ening up and there was no wind. That night a thin layer of ice formed across the wider part of the lake opposite Haileybury and only a comparatively small area of open water could be seen on Wednesday, stretching from Farr's Island towards the wharf here. Thursday morning this had closed in,and, although a part of the snow which fell on Xmas Day appeared to meet on the sur- face of the lake, the ice held and has gradually thickened since that time. It is far from being solid yet, however, and it appears as though it would be later than Two 1931 Ontari o Rhodes Scholars George H. Sedgewick, K.C., who has been appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Ontario, to fill the vacancy caused by the prom- otion of Mr. Justice Rose to the position of Chief Justice. Hon. Mr. Justice Sedgewick was born at Musqudobit, Nova Scotia Lors Carlson is Made Minister in Boys' Parliament So. Temiskaming Representative Lands in Cabinet at His First Session Lors Carlson, Haileybury boy who was elected to represnt this section of Temiskaming in the Older Boys' Parliament of On- tario, was on Saturday-last--ap- pointed to the portfolio of Per- sonal Problemis by the new Prime Minister, John H. Louman. Mr. Carlson, who is on his first ses- sion of the Boys' Parliament, is a well known worker among the younger boys in town and_ has taken a prominent part in the Tuxis and Trail Ranger move- ments here for a number of years. He isa student at the Haileybury High School and his friends are all greatly pleased to know that his ability has been recognized in this way. With Mr. Carlson, as an addi- tional representative of the North Country, is Gordon McKinnon, of Cobalt, who was appointed last week by Rev. Fred Smith, head of the Boys' Work Board in this section. He is one of the ten representatives of the Trail Rangers of the province, chosen to sit in the parliament along with the elected members usual before there will be any p The Open e arte Older Boys' possibility of driving across. arliament was held on Friday y : .|evening last, December 26th, and Some trampers below Mill]~.--. 5 Be Grek one ee tti sessions continued until Wednes- $83 Be ay, getting |day evening of this week. water from the lake, found only F ; ; On Saturday the election for about one inch of ice near -the|,,.~ j P ae aoa te that Goin the office of Premier was_ held, i k when Mr. Louman was _ chosen after a second ballot had been taken. Donald Buchanan, a stu- dent at the University of Toron- to, is leader of the Opposition. The members of the Cabinet as announced by Premier Louman are: Minister of Organization--Paul Moore, South Oxford. Education--John Hunter, Pet- erboro. "New Citizen'--Wilbur How- ard. Toronto. Co-Operation -- Gordon North Welland. Publicity--Melvin Shepley, of Chatham. Personal Problems--Lors Carl- son, Haileybury. Speaker--Arthur burton. Fess, Kerr. Hali- buted a total of 47 baskets. In addition to this two elderly men, whom it has been the custom to remember at the Christmas sea- son, received their usual gifts of pipes, tobacco and one or two other articles. The number of families where assistance was required is larger than in previous years, but only a comparatively small number. Last year there were over 40. The committee which handled the fund was chosen from differ- ent organizations in town. They got together some weeks previ- ous to the holiday and made their plans, after having ascertained approximately the amount of money that would be available for the work, and as the holiday drew near, arrangements were made for the purchase and distri- bution of the goods required to make sure that everv family in town had plenty of the necessi- ties and some of the luxuries as well. In addition to the amounts subscribed by the three main or- ganizations, individual contribu- tions were invited, but no can- vass of the residents of the town was made, as it was considered this was not necessary. The amount available for the provision of the baskets was $267, made up as follows: The Knights of Columbus (from the Turkey Stag) $150; the Rotary Club, $50; the I.0.D.E. $25; and from the public contributions, $42. This was found quite suffi- cient to cover the cost of the goods purchased and the packing and distributing was all done by volunteers from the different or- ganizations. -- : The management of Hotel Haileybury provided a room for the packing of the hampers. W. Lemay did the distributing on Wednesday morning and he was assisted in this work by Lieut. Macfarlane of the Salvation Ar- my. The work was well taken care of, there was »» >verlapping and everything was handled sys- tematically and satisfactorily. In addition to the work of the Christmas Cheer Fund Commit- tee, the local branch of the Can- adian Legion assisted the families of some of the veterans through the means of their shooting matches and in other ways, and it is safe to say that no one in Haileybury missed the Christmas festivities this year. ns X Will Be No Election for % Council of Bucke Township There will be no election for the council of 1931 in the Town- ship of Bucke, as a result of the nomination meeting held on Monday. Reeve Burt Normandy and Councillors T. Pools, O. Nel- son and H. Stoughton were re- elected by acclamation and with A. McLean as a new man replac- ing A. Williams, will form the council for the year. There were no further names placed in nom- ination and the proceedings were quiet. - The Canadian Legion shoot at the Armories on Monday evening was.well attended by the crack shots, who took home the New Year's fowl. ss atin atin atthe adie aden atttee athe atthe atthe attne atiee af The Week's Weather ! Week ending Dec. 30th, 1930 Edward B. Jolliffe (left) and Harold S. Day, fourth year students at Victoria College, University of Toronto, who have been selected Rhodes Scholars for Ontario. Mr. Jolliffe is a son of Rev. C. Jeeks Joliffe of the West China Mission of the United Church of Canada, Mr. Day, who is a candidate for the Un- ited Church ministry, is from Brantford, Ont. Deputy Speaker--Ted Leonard, Max. Min. defeated premiership candidate. Wednesday. == saeie 23S Ministers Without Portfolio-- Thursday SEI Pen Soto f= John Houston, Sarnia; and Ger- Eicid aye seen eet a 32,25 ald Palmer, Lanark. Saturday -- ergs}. 1S) Sunday ---- ae 28) eae A total of $12,000 is to be ex-| Monday --__ BRE sil io} pended during the winter on| Tuesday .__________ 29 -6 roads inthe Township of Dy-] Total precipitation..-___ .22" mond, of which the Ontario Gov- ernment, the Northern Develop-}Northern Ontario--Local snow- ment Branch and the municipal-| falls, fair and colder tonight and ity will each pay one-third. Thursday.