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HE SAID LYDIA WAS CRAZY Husband Threat To Kill Relatives of Lydia Crawford testified that her husband Jack had beaten her and threatened to kill her as the defence opened its case yester day afternoon in the noneapitnl murder trial of Mrs Crawford Edward Charles Leonard Lydia Crawfords father told of visit the Crawfords had made to his Toronto home on Sept He said that Crawford had got out of the car which had driven up He told me my daughter was crazy that she was lazy and lies in bad all day Ill kill her before the week is out Jack said Karen Leonard 10yearold sister of Lydia said that the group had arrived at the Tor onto house between 130 and 200 pm in Patrick Doriss car answered the door and Jack Crawford asked me if Lydia could stay the weekend He said she was crazy and he didnt want her up there UNLOAD CLOTHING Miss Lennard said that Pat rick Doris Crawford and George Davis had begun to unload clothing from the car and dump it on the porch She said that Dori had laundry basket containing the Crawfords baby Ricky across the porch floor Miss Leonard testified that Jack Crawford had tried to force his wife out of the car Jack was hitting her and trying to pull her out of the car Miss Leonard told the court that she had talked to Mrs Crawford in the car later and said that her hair was all wet from crying there were slid bruises on her arms legs and face and her thumb was brole en Miss Leonard said under crossexomination that she did not know if the thumb was in fact broken but that this was what Mrs Crawford had told her Nelson Leonard 23 testified that he had stood on the porch and watched Jack Craw ford beat up Lydia in the car WAS CALLED PUNK Jack was on his knees at the rear door punching her told Jack to leave her alone and he called me punk Asked why he had not come to help Mrs Crawford Leon ard said that he was too scar ed was too scared because of these two other guys Leonard said that he was referring to Patrick Doris and George Davis whom he said were standing at the front of the car with their arms fold ed the demonstrated this vis ually tn the court like body guards Mrs Emily Leonard Lydias mother was the last witness to testify for the defence was tcrday afternoon She said that after the events of Sept she had been wor ried and had written letter to the Barrie Police Depart ment She testified that she had received reply on Sept 16 which had been written in re assuring terms but which had not calmed her fears Mrs Leonard said that she and her husband had then driv en to Barrie to visit at the Crawford home on Tiffin Street went into the house she said and there were about 10 fellows in the kitchen who MRS JANET KING LAY Mrs Janet King Lay Passes Former PMs Sister Confident prominent Barrie citizen has passed away with the death of Mrs Janet Lindsay King Lay last surviving sister and confidant of the late Prime Min ister Mackenzie King Mrs Lay who was 85 died at loniswood Private Hospital here yesterday following lengthy illness She had been in hospi tal since last May Mr Lay died in 1945 He was manager of the Canadian Bank of Commerce branch here from 1919 until his retirement in 1930 He then established Boulderfel Greenhouse which he operated successfully for several years In earlier years Mrs Lay was very close to King before and during his ong parliamen tary career For many years she served as Mr Ki inffiCial hostess for vorious functions when the prime minister enter before coming tnined royalty and government leaders from other countries For most of her life Mrs Lay was active in many of Barries social and community activities retiring from this work about 10 years ago She was mem ber of Collier Street United Church Born in Berlin Ontario later Kitchener she was married in Toronto in 1900 She lived in various communities where Mr Lay served as bank manager to Barrie Surviving are three sons Nel son of Ottawa John of Picker ing Ontario and Harry of To omto and two daughters Mrs Oates of Barrie and Mrs Gordon Dunlop of Willowdaie Private services will be held at pm Friday at Jennetts Funeral Home Burial will be in Barrie Union cemetery started backing into the bed room when came in Lydia looked in an awful state She was white shaking like leaf and her legs were all bruises asked Jack to stop quarrell ing and he just sneeer at me MOTHER OF 16 Mrs Leonard told the court that she was the mother of 16 children 15 of whom were still living the youngest being 10 years old Mr Leonard had testified that he stayed in the car while his wife went inside Lydia had come out to the car and talked to him She was haggard and depres sed looking Mr Leonard said Hetold the court that while he was waiting in the car out side the Tiffin Street home four or five fellows had gradually come out of the house and one of them had got on motor cycle N0 FORCE USED Earlier in the day George Davis 18 of Thornton testified that no force had been used to get Mrs Crawford into the car at Toronto on the Sept trip to Toronto He denied defence suggest ion that Mrs Crawford had run away and Jack Crawford had run after her on Tiffin Street before the trip to Toronto be gaa flack took her by the arm and put her in the car held the front seat back Davis said she started to act up as soon as we got on the 400 Davis said TRIED TO JUMP He told the court that Mrs Crawford had tried to jump out of the car window had kicked the front seat in an attempt to put the car out of control and had thrown tin of baby food around inside the car Mrs Patricia Le Collier head matron at the Simcoe County Jail testified that on Septem ber29 while supervisilng Mrs Crawfords bathing she had not ed large discoloration the size of grapefruit on the prisoners chest which had not been there when Mrs Crawford was admitted to yall on the night of September 25 Dr John Hicks said that he examined Mrs Crawford at the jail on Sept 30 and found bruise five by four inches in the centre of her chest He said that it was possible for seven to 10 days to elapse be fore bruise came to the sur face Record Number 0t Trappers Pelts NORTH BAY CPD Aroc ordbreaking 20000 pelts will be up for sale at the second for auction of the 106162 season Saturday They could net Onta rio trappers more than $150 000 The outlook is excellent says Cam Currie sales mana ger for the Ontario Trapper Association which is holding five auctions during the trap ping season The firstwas Dec 12 Others are scheduled for Feb 27 April 10 and May 25 Some 15 buyers representing Canadian United States and European fur manufacturing firms are expected to he on hand for the auction Mr Currie said market trends on beaver mink and muskrot are holding steady and the sudden interest shown in raccoons at the December sale particularly by European firms has produced an upsurge in offering Some 18000 furs were cleared in the December sale for $35 five auctions topped $325000 car at Barrie or out of the 000 Total sales from last years THE NEW two million dol lar expansion wing of the Royal Victoria llospitnl will increase bcd facilities to ac commodate 235 patients The new wing will allow removal of patients from the old cen tral block which will be com vcrtcd into offices for xray and other technical facilities Hospital officials expect the new building will be official ly opened sometime in May Headquarters for the admit ting officer will be located in newly constructed part of the old hospital and emer gency dressing rooms will be located in the renovated cen tral block At the present time these are situated in the emergency wing on the hospi tals main floor Seated above in centre photo is Mrs Grnylt don Knapp admitting officer who is consulting with Miss Margaret Currie of the emerlt gency dressing room Mrs Knapp is temporarily replac ing Mrs Mathews Right shows an unscheduled event in the daily routine in the Pediatrics word Above left Miss June Bates head nurse in pediatrics and Miss Udell right intermediate DONALD ALLAN Elect Allan YPC Leader Donald Allan was elected president of the Barrie branch Young Progressive Conserva tive Association at the annual meeting last night other officers named were past president Gordon Teskey first vicepresident Gordon Conder treasurer Edward gen secretary Mrs Lorna Jack Gardiner director of the Central Ontario board of the association announced plans for oneday YPC conference at the Embassy Feb 10 Among those in attendance will be Hon Michael Starr federal minister of labor Hon Matthew Dy mond Ontario health minister Hon Brian Cathcart minister of travel and publicity Arthur Evans MPP Simcoe South and Rev Downer MPP Duf mcoe Heber Smith MP Simcoe Centre and Robert Boy or MPP Muskoka The conference will include panel discussions and addresses by the visiting ministers There will also be dinner meeting Plan Election YMCA Board At the annual dinner meet ing of the Board oi Directors of the SIMYWCA being held at Trinity Church Hall nextWed nesday January at the follow ing slate of names will be be presented For reelection Mrs Clem meos Pickles Mrs Wallace WC Clark Dingman As new members to the board Mrs Bird Ed munds Ken Johnson Harvie Johnstonc Mrs Broley Each year ten of the thirty board members complete threeyear term in accordance with the localbylows Nom inations are for period of three years Try An Examiner Want Ad PHONE PA 8K nurse supervise the kiddies tea party Seated at the to ble Sulanne left and Lou isc right twin daughters of Cpl and Mrs Albert Thibert of Camp Borden play host to $2 000000 EXPANSlON PROGRAM male patient John McEach era son of Mr and Mrs Gar net McEachera of Napier Street Suzanne and Louise are postoperative patients Examiner Photos RVH Expansion InFull Swing Increases Bed The price of progress is high Item Borries Royal Victoria Hospital currently undergoing an expansion program to meet the needs of growing com rnuuity There are so many more people nowadays and therefore more people need hospital help is the logical comment of hospital administrator Miss Helen Shanahan ive been here long time and have seen many changes some Ive liked and some didnt like offered Miss Shan ahan pleasant whitehaired woman with friendly laugh that hides the sharp mind of an executive in some ways liked it bet for when we knew all the pat ients Now with more patients and more work miss the per sonal contact Miss Shanahon nurse grad uate of Royal Victoria Hospital in 1924 immediately was ap pointed assistant superintend out and was named administra tor in 1547 Recalling the hospitals grow th she mentioned that the pat ient capacity in l947 was about 80 new wing built in 195l increased capacity to 135 Another spanking new oddi tlon costing 32000900 will be ready in May or June boosting patient capacity to about 235 Included are an addition to the nurses residence and staff cafeteria FINANCING Half of the cost to finance the new addition came in federal and provincial grants totalling $1000000 The city of Barrie chipped in 960000 and Simcoe County $250000 in addition the hospital floated $210000 bond issue and currently is campaigning for $30000 to help furnish the new structure The need for the new build ing was evident and theres no doubt the money is being well spent says assistant adminis trator Donald Cameron This is becoming regional hospital beerrafitscesydrinking best You can always count on Dow because its COOL CONTROL BREWED This exclusive brewing method guards the temperature guards the flavour of Dow every step of the way until the cap goes on the bottle Uncap Dow for guaranteed pleasure convincing proof that The expansion program will result in about 50 patients be ing transferred to the iibw ad dition from the old centre block Were cleaning out the cen tre block because its obsolete says Miss Shanahan How ever we plan to use this space for additional Xray laboratory and pathology facilities as well as administrative offices Royal Victorias overall per diem cost for ward care is $1985 per day Its another six dollars for private room lot of people might think this high and it is the highest in the county but this includes all the extras such as Xray medicines and such says Mr Cameron Moreover we pro vide more of the specialized services than any other hospi tal in the county $150 INCREASE Despite rising costs the per diem rate has increased only about 5150 since 1959 when the Ontario Hospital insurance Act came into existence Some 98 per cent of patients pace To 235 in Royal Victoria have ins ance coverage and says Mi Shanahan the insurance is best thing that ever happened for sick people as well as hos pitals At the end of last year Royal Victoria had afulltiine staff of 300 including 90 stn dent nurses and parttime staff of 31 Budgeting operating expend itures this year total $14L5000 of which $885000 will be paid out in staff salaries Miss Shanahan is particularly proud of the nurse training school which this year is cele brating its 60th anniversary This is something really necessary to good hospital because many of the graduates stay with us Miss Shanahan believes the nursing profession is more de manding because of advances in medicine Nowadays nurse has to be well trained be cause she is required to carry out the newer techniques in medimne