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The Haileyburian Page 2 Thursday, October 19, 1961 Published by Temiskaming Printing Co. Ltd. New Liskeard, Ont. THE HAILEYBURIAN and COBALT POST Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association. Issued every Thursday, from The Haileyburian Office, Broad- way Street, Haileybury, Ontario. Authorized as Second 'Class Mail Post Office, Department, Ottawa. In Canada -- $2.50 per year In United States -- $3.50 per in advance, year in advance. -- T dee by THE PAPERS SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont.--The IS-yearwld son of Mrs. Leila Mar- Tene Steinke testified at the cap- ital murder trial of his mother recently that his father once hit the woman so hard her head and Shoulders went through the wall. ia Mrs. Steinke, 29, is charged in connection with the fatal shoot- ing of her husband, Edward, 31, April 14, The boy and another 12-year-old son testified before the Supreme Court jury at the first day's hear- ing that their father, described as @ powerful, heavy-set man, had offen beaten his wife after he had been drinking. On the eve of the shocting, they said, they overheard Steinke tell his. wife it would be "too bad for hher" if she was still in the house wiien he came home. He said he Was going out to have a good time The younger boy said he put the Safety cabch on a .410-calibre shot- fun after his mother had put a shéll in it and placed it in a case in the closet. The boys said they were awak- ened by their father's shouting and banging on the door. He. event- tually broke in, they heard voices, then a gur-shot. They saw their father chasing their mother back and forth be- tween the kitchen and the living rod, the boys said, before their father collapsed on the living room flooy. Mrs. Steinke called police. Gonstables Don Coulter and Cal- vin Wood testified they found Steinke lying face down in a pool of blood. A rifle was on the floor and the walls, furniture and floor in the kitchen of the small home were spattered with blood. Just as the ambulance drove up, Steinke slumped back and his pulse stopped. TUPPERVILLE, Ont. -- A group of diggers have unearthed the re- mains of a giant elephant-like mastodon 6,000 years after it lum- bered to death near this Kent County hamlet. The Etobicoke Historical Society began delving into the site on the farm of John T. Ferguson after a tooth the size of a grapefruit and a kneebone were uncovered, Furth- er search revealed a 40-inch piece of tusk, several vertebrae and ribs, a front leg bone and three and one-half inch long toe bones, Pieces. of wood recovered with the bones were Studied at the Uni- versity of Western Ontario and estimated to be about 6,230 years old. TORONTO -- Metropolitan Tor- onto police have arrested 44 juv- eniles on charges ranging from arson to auto theft. In one 24-hour period police made 26 juvenile arrests compar- ed to 13 adult arrests. Four boys, from 10 to 12 years of age, were charged with arson following a $14,000 fire in a bed- ding factory. Polige said the boys set fire to a plastic cqntainer while playing fort under a loading plat- form. Fifty firefighters worked 25 minutes before the fire was brought under control. Nine boys ranging from eight to 15 were charged with breaking into an east end school and 11 boys from nine to 15 were charg- ed with a series of September ENCORE: DISCOUNT TRAIN FARES are offered again this fall. Take full advantage of these substantial savings ... bring friend or family and enjoy the best in travel. DISCOUNT TRAIN FARES... e@ For two or more--round trip le Any day of the week @ Anywhere in Canada eFirst Class, Touristor Coach, whereindividual regular round trip fare is $7.50 or more ® Go together--return separately if you wish ® 150 lbs. of baggage free per adult for each Person Phone: Call your local ticket office for the ' DISCOUNT FARE that applies to your next trip. CANADIAN NATIONAL breakins in west end stores, homes and churches. NEW ORLEANS -- Policeman Leary Adams noticed Edgar Wil- son when he arrived from Mem- phis, Tennessee, on his annual trek to a warmer climate. Wilson looked like a turtle, his head barely showing above a heavy vagancy, officers discovered he was wearing 11 coats, including a leather jacket and an army coat, 16 pairs of pants, three shirts and a pair of long red flannels. When clothed Wilson weighed 208. He weighed 150 stripped. He told police he likes to be warm when he travels, and, any- way, his duffle bag wouldn't hold everything, PILSWORTH, England -- It was gin that made the telephone in the~ Three Arrows pub go dead around closing time each night. "You might say the phone got dead drunk,' said the manager, Stanley Payne. The phone went out like a light every night and came on again in the morning. Repairmen 'investi- gated and could find nothing wrong with the mechanism. Then one of them spotted the gin bottle, upended for quick meas- ured service and hanging above the phone. During the pub's trading hours, they found, drips from the bottle were falling on the phone. The gin was seeping into the mech- anism, putting it out of action. By morning the gin in the phone had evaporated and the mechanism worked again. Payne has moved he phone to a dry spot. GLASGOW -- A preacher went to jail recently rather than pay a fine for taking part in a sitdown demonstration against the U.S. nuclear submarine base at Holy Loch. Rev. Albert Goedheer, 49, minister of Teyvallich Church of Scotland near Inverary, said he did so because the picketing was done to show how he felt about nuclear weapons -and that he was ready to take the consequences. TIMMINS -- Two Quebec men who had 88 counterfeit Canadian $10 bills in their possession when arrested October. 4 were- remanded. one week. for sentencing when they pleaded. guilty to a total of four charges. Willey Poulin, 35, who gave his. profession as entertainer and his address as Chapais, Que., plead- ed guilty to charges of possessing counterfeit momey, possessing a firearm without a permit; and attempting to utter counterfeit money. Jean Guy Baril, 31-year-old Chapais miner, pleaded guilty to the same charge in connection with the firearm and one charge of possessing counterfeit money. PORT ARTHUR -- Police said recently a 43-year-old man killed his invalid mother and then. him- self_in a double shooting in their home here. The bodies of Mrs. Georgina Blanchette, 77, and her son, Peter, were found by Mrs. Adrienne Why- bourne, the old woman's daugh- ter, who said she entered the house when nobody answered the telephone. She said she found her mother Sitting on a chesterfield as if she was watching television. "Then I saw the blood and knew she was dead."' She found the fully clothed Day of her brother stretched out on an. unmade bed in a bedroom, A .38- calibre pistol was lying near him, Relatives. said mother and son had been ill and Peter had been few weeks. BOURNEMOUTH, England--The bridegroom was so nervous he fell in a faint on the altar steps. No sooner was he on his- feet again, supported by the bride, than the best man slumped down, hitting his head as he fell. Then a- choir boy went down. A bridesmaid collapsed' in the aisle. Rev. William Stedmond staunch- ly carried on with the Service, al- though interrupted four more times as other guests were carried out. Finally the bridegroom, Alan old Lillian Seare. brown coat, the officers said. After the 25-year-old -was ~booked- fo-r- depressed for a long time, but had_ become more cheerful in 'the last Farwell, was declared -to ap-year- ' / Said: one of the -guests after the wedding in Holdenhurst, Hamp- shire, parish church: "The church looked like a battlefield. 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