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Barrie Examiner, 10 Jan 1968, p. 1

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BAmEFORD Sash lCPi recorded account of the shoot ing oi nine members of one family was heard hicsday as the Crown completed its evi dence 1n the murdw trial of Victor Ernest Hoflman The recorded Voice was idenr tified by police witness as that of the 21yearold llntfman charged with noacapital mur der la the deaths of hlr and ltrs James Peterson at Shell Lake Sash found dead last Aux l5 Seven of their children were also slain but no charges wcre laid in tlteir deaths Chi Gawthmp of the EXAMINER TELEPHONES 7266539 mZitl All other Departments 7266537 Grculation Classified Advertising With Year No RCMP said Hoffman made the recording voluntarily It was made in the RCMP headquarters the night of Aug 19 shortly after llnllman was picked up at the family farm 40 miles southeast oi the Peterson farm Charged originally Aug with capital murder Hellman was charged with noncapital murder nfter Parliament last month changed the menningeoi capital murder to mean only the slaying of policeman or prison guard on duty Only capi tal murder carries the death penalty bite the recording was played to the jury Hoffman sat with head bowed in the pris oners box occasionally taking tranquiliizing pill ltlr Justice McPherson earlier ruled the recording and written statement atlmisible as evi dence The recording similar to the stalcment read earlier tothn jury by Sgt Fraser in charge of the general intutiga lumped tion section at RCMP North Battleford told of events on lttesday Augt l5 31th recorded voice told of seeing house about 200 yards south of Highway ll Uh Than 12 Before went up to it my mind was absolutely away irorn hunting was thinking about spruce bushes just hang just like that my mind went on to kill people First to die was Mr l7eterson lie was just sitting there on the bed there and he said Who is it lle kept on saying that and when he saw the gun he uponthebcdandlshot him He lutan off the bed and kept coming at me He grabbed me right by the neck here lie was trying to get me but be was shot and kept on shootint at him with the gun until the it gun was empty and shot the last flteil into him He fell down He finally hit the floor RELOADS GUN The ucahbre repeater ritle was reloaded ltnishcd him all Then started slaughtering the girls met in the head at close range were Jean 17 Mary Dorothy it and Pearl No mention was made of shooting William and Colin The only survivor was Phyllis who was lound ln bed unharmed bclwccn the bodies of two sis tors Mrs Peterson was carrying Barrie Ontario Canada Wednesday January it 1968 av 10 YEAR EFT MANTO DIE liT OPENINGVOF Ohittill NEWSPAPER PLANT bard Thomson ot Fleet right attended the oiiicial opening at the new building of the Dr lllia Packet and Times yes terday atternoon In the pre sence of large number oi invited guests he pushed button to start the newspap ers ultramodern press He is shown chatting with Prunicr John Robarts following the certannnles Later in the day Lord Thomson made surprise visit to The Barrie Examiner See story on Page BrOoklyn Heart NEW YORK CF touts Block the worlds filth heart transplant recipient died at 185 am today at Moimonides iMedical Centce in Brooklyn where he had undergone sur gery to hours earlier Block marriedand the father of two sons Was the third of the worlds five heart transplant pa tients lo dieleaving two alive one was making good progress good progress eight days after an South Africa but the other was in critical condition in Call tornla Blocks death meant the sec nd heart gratt failurellor Adrian Kantrowitz who Dec attempted the lirst heart trans plant inthe us on an intant Wmmn ln statement the hospital called the57yearvold Block retired fireman from the Bro brave and courageous ma ONLY CHANCE The statement said it is with deep sense of re gret that we must report the loss at our heart transplant pa tient He was brayeand cou rageous man We let that the major prob lem in thl case was related to the pumping capacity at the transplanted heart and the poor condition or the lungs dueto the patients longsunning earl disease In the operation surgeons faced the ditticult problem of transplant aheart from much at ler 29yeaneld cAPsu LOUIS nLocK LatestBeart Patient woman into the fillpound Block tients stilt survivingare Mt nhaél Kasperait steeltvorker whosat up for the first time Tuesday night since his opernt Slanford the edge of the bedfor 10 min ute Doctors said he showed dis cl rovement but still Elaflserg retired South African dentist showed Monican Seek Stills MEXICO CITY EmeryUndercover agents today searched for illegal stills believed to have producedslcohol blamed lor the deaths of 45 persons on far in northern Mexico operators of the hills were believed to have sold their prpdnct as ordinary alcohoL Blizzards Sweep switzerland GENEVA tReuterrtllerce btiuards struck Switzerland to day closing main airports halting and disrupting rail and road traffic and threatening uvalantdtes tn motorists region mono ltip Ottawa Lung omwaccmosmsoworormd imam exploa mo undareanstractlont cum selledtdod he received the heart of col ored man Meanwhile preparations for another heart transplant oper atioa were under it at Ben tist Memorial Hospi in Okla homa City theDaily Oklaho man reportedu liSE BALLOON tiny balloon pulsed inside Blocks new heart system today as surgeons struggled to over come the problems or trans planting muoh smaller womans heart into fillpound 57Ayenro1d Yorker became the worlds filth heart transplant recipient JAIMAMLIuhnnll Munst mnnides Med Centre in Brooklyn gove hi Zlyearvnld womans heart gauge The Examne ODliY Ann canons5 City News2 Classified£22 Entitiesit Deaths22 Districts Editorial4 Sportslo 11 Theatred TVUsttngslt hissing Womens6 PASADENA Calii CH The lunar exploration progra today appeared to have taken mayor step forward thanks to the successful near ballseye landing at the Surveyor Wt on the mom Narrowly missing dangeri our rock tnespacecraft bottled down gently oath moon TIM day night and televisedthowlh duh loch yestound by lunarprobos Scientist ot IMVLB lltoty here were trimmobile $4M Itnrrriean NeldrlBullsseye 1361 Lunar Craft Hoffman Recalls Shootings In Larry ta months clad only in diaper didnt shoot the baby yet and didnt want to shoot it went back in the house and flu ishodotttherestotthegirls They were still screaming and they were making many noises They werent dead yet They didnt die The bullet in the head just didnt kill them didnt want to shoot them anywhere else wanted to shoot thorn in the head because could cut the heads off and take itwith me Then ld have them bullets with me lint since some or the bullets were going right through the head and out Examiner Recording andhit the wall there was no sense cutting the heads att any way because the halllrticr would be on the bullets any my Then the baby was shot went back out there at the last and twisted it otf didnt wanna shoot hated myself for shooting it But the baby was shot in the head twice because didnt want it to suitor Maybe nobody would find it for three or four days it would starve The voice said he had not known the Pctersons any ot them or ever before been to Shell Latte tr Not More Than Eric Kierans Enters Liberal Lender Race nomnnan tcer jette Kiernas opened another tour early today to hours alter jumping into the national Libe a1 leadership contest with mand for swinging new eralism The 13yenrold former Que bec revenue and health minister announced his candidacy for the prime mlnistership at partly televised press conference when herepoiied his resignation as president of the memomember Quebec Liberal FefierEt The first nations now are to enter the race Mr ans envisaged new independ ence and dynamism in Canada whose Frenchand Englishvlan guage cities would be drawn ychnnges Rte economist and reasons why he decided to otter himself to the Ottawa April 48 across imam on no closer together by constitutional former university professor gave two Wliov Liberal convention tihich will pick successor for Prime Min istor Pearso Winter HdsFiJIIIn iGIiP By can CANADIAN mass Snow mounted in Newfound land while temperatures dropped in Quebec and Ontario =alt=am€azuésthuLumi was something to talk about Batteredl7y blizzards last live days western New loundland appeared tobe get ting respite Tuesday night as winds subsided But the times remained gripped by cold More snow was espected today and norelieftrorn the cold was expected betor Friday gt At Corner Brook Nfld mother and nine children fled barefoot from their home through waistd sno to otrawa CPl The Vlittle thingsand the luxurieswere responsible in large part to lunar probu landedin terrain or ditferent front areas In which tour rpravlous lsuccessful surveyors landed snrveyor program manager Beanntin Milwitsky of the No tionalAeramttcsand Space on at man mod sound afire alarm 200 yards away Theirhnuscgburaed ground CNR ferry servic on the Cabot Strait between Newfound gt7ndmwwwflfimfi bad weather was restored con hindered when some mechani calparts froze in the cold were running up to eight huurslate Three deaths in New Bruns wick were attributed tithe ture dippedto 21 below Monday mm below Tuesday Scoresof schools closed by the ominion Bureau ofSta tlstloa silong that lhecoml budgEieehelter ran the least in 96 Healtbaad reatlon ru tobacco and Il cohol together account for in per cent of total urban family them spending the cost of rose moietlran five Sa 1le business matlvsmncfiotycurre He was scheduled to go to ces that take the largest part oftlte family it foodrose sorrel care 26 with the spccdoi and demand for change sweeping the world and Canada in particular led eral state is state in motion it demands from its government continual adaptation and evolu tion He arranged an early depar ture today for Fredericton John and Monoton Vherc incidentally he started life as flour sales Charlottetown Thursday then to Halliaxfriday and Saturday to attend mecting of the Nova Scolia LiberalFedcrution and Ottavva Sunday He will then go to Toronto and Winnipeg iGovi Commuter Death Sentences 0mm tent Sixteen convicted murderers have es caped the gallows as result or cab et decision to commute all on standing death sentences in Canada to lite imprisonment Theeommutati follow Par liaments yenactment of new law to limit the death penalty formurder to killers of police men and prison guards tor in year trial pert slice dep merit spokes id Tuesday notices of the git Monday to than decision we be ingtznienvon death row and to Bn sh Columbia andoo tario eacli holding tvie con tfeTttvfiEit lfilfi fW To Stabbing Jamés Henry Grecnldge 28 oi Toronto was sentenced to to years in Kingston Penitentiary this morning after he pleaded guilty tothe dulytt attempted murder at William Howell 21 another Toronto man Grecnidge was charged with the nearfatal stabbing on lonelysidernad six miles north or Barrie Crown Attorney John Murphy told Mr Justice Parker tbatHowell married man and Grecnidge meljat theatre in Toronto wellknown as homo sexual hangon Later they got into Green srnnnnn IHewett Green go pulled kn stabbed Howell in Ute throat then tiedhis hands behind his back and stripped him Alter committing an indecent act Greenidge dragged Howell ied to stopidenti pushing the vi face into the ground with loot then stabbed him several timesnnd left him ior dead Howell managed to get his hands untiedand tried to get to help lie collapsed and was toundby farmer at Sam Greenidge who was om to the Ontario Hospital at Fene languishene lor 60 day found to have psychopa ical tendencies but3was cla fit to stand tat The man tlad Greenidgcs year sentence 1955 two con stor assault dd three or Snowilorries Low tonight llJ High Thursday It Complete details on Page lfi tted The voice on the tape said he drove home contemplating sui cide and threw the empties be bind the garage Police later rc covered them was real sick was just about rick enough to shoot my self for what had done didnt know whcre to shoot my self where would die quick Because saw the way they diedthey dicd so hardthey didnt want to die dont even know where my heart is Before the Crowns case closed three RCMP officers tes titled WEATHER Continuing cold 10 Per Copy 14 Page Greenidge Pleads Guilty Near Barrie Defense Counsel Living ston called no witnesses Greenidge told court that if he had been given psychiatric help while he was in penitentiary the iracident might not have happen He asked to be committed in an Ontario Hospital PROTECT snctrzn Mr Justice Parker told Green ldge his sentence had to be sut ficlent to protect society punish you and deter othe He said the oltence might just easily hereybeenrmrder Ha mdlcnteda letter could be sent to Kingston requesting that psy chiatric hclp be giv The CtDWtl Atlnrno said both the victim andthe accused were Howell was lack appears on rta as the prosecution is concerned sad Mr Murphy letter Ywrilton by Greenidga to Howell was introduced as ev dnce in it Greenidge said couldnt explain hisvact and ed How not to let it run his lite Howell has recovered from the assau Urternplwmenl Shows Increase OTTAWA iClfl tltternplo menl showed an ormal pet en midDecember tram Mam month earlier government re crease mber and 11th tod In Dece 6t ear Rhyming including boaae par dmse prties rents aadhouse bold operation ccstl accoimts torn eentotfamtlJpead In aniioenaexnwiu per cent

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