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the examiner MondayOct 31 1977 gunman waves his rifle while surrounded by hostages at the National Trust ompany in Toronto early Sunday morn ing The gunman held off police for about 14 hours before surrendering and releasing his hostages lwentythrec yearold Paul irtanen of Toronto has been charged with two counts of robbery and one count of conspiracy to commit robbery Photo Trade for bottle of scotch frees last of 29 hostages TORONTO itli twentynine people who faced death in trust company office during the weekend were attempting to return to usual routines today while Paul Arnold Virtanen languished in jail There were no injuries in the 14hour hostagetaking iii cident which ended shortly before dawn Sunday when gun man gave up the last of his hostages and his rifle for bottle of scotch whisky irtanen 33 who last summer ran Toronto business training guard dogs but was listed as having no fixed ad dress after he was arrested was charged with two counts of robbery and one count of conspiracy to commit robbery One of the trust company employees held along with customers in the office in Northtowii shopping plaza on Yonge Street just south of Finch Avenue said the gunman told his hostages he staged the incident because of death lice after pharmacy was robbed earlier in the day by two men Shortly after the robbery man dressed in WGSltlllSlylt garb and carrying sawedroff Ml carbine walked through the main entrance of the nearby trust company office locked the door and held 29 people inside hostage One of the gunnians first demands of police who swarmed over the plaza was that they bring lasalle to him In telephone interview with reporter the gunman said Youll probably have double execution to write up tomor row In another interview he said If it keeps on going Ill kill everyone lt doesnt make hell of lot of difference to me now know Im going to jail for long long time and it doesnt make much difference Police said the man was hysterical when the incident pact with friend Eva Sakellariadis 21 teller on duty Saturday said in an interview following her ordeal that the gunman told the hos tages he was helping friend He was doing it out of love and loyalty for his friend she said He said that if his friend was still willing todie iii stead of going to jail hed shoot him and then blow his own brains out But it he didnt want to theyd both surrender Michael lllllt of Toronto had been arrested by po began at 320 pm Saturday but gradually calmed during series of telephone conversations lle fired lit shots from his rifle but none was directed at hostages or police offee and hamburgers were placed at the front door of the office at the gunmans request but police said they refused his other demands The gunman began releasing hostages early Sunday the mood had eased and hostages talked and joked with their ab ductor Later he demanded to have his picture taken by newspaper photographers and on separate occasions two cameramen were allowed by police to enter the office The gunmans parents had been brought to the scene but did not speak to him although he spoke twice to Lasalle on telephone llarold Adamson Metropolitan Toronto police chief lll charge of about too policemen ho held the building under siege said he negotiated the release of the last six hostages hief Adamson said he broke firm llllt in life and death hostage negotiations You never negotiate tor alcohol or firearms be ex plained But in the final analysis think we made good trade Wayne Smith manager of the tnist company branch was the last to leave about tilt am EST Sunday and he carried the gunmans rifle Smith and assistant manager Frank loochie were later treated briefly in hospital for zillxltly PQ hiding its real plan Lalonde charges in folk Qllthljl il Marc lar separatisnn and independ londc says the liti iguehccois ence were used by the partys gmernmcn sovereignyass opponents to confusion ociation proposal is nothing among litQuebec people but smokescrecn to mask ltttllltlttlttttls Bertrand said eventual independence the governments objective is Lalonde minister of state for not to separate Quebec from federalprovincial relations anada but rather to assure made the comment in speech the province of sovereignty in Saturday to meeting of the an economic association with nationalist St Jean Baptiste tlierestoHanada Some lammh that the Another hostage was Dr Dan llltlllll Bl director of The other provinces are not other provincial premiers have WeltC psyvhmm lbvvhmlml hMMM mm7 fooled Lalonde said clearlv affirmed that thev re CUSmlmV lka Wk JN ihtill llis speech lOllOltl one ear jcct sovereigntvassocialion as gunman or pm quhwms Md udwumm PM QM ln an interview following his release liiciani referred to bemhpr tj mt wtut lkttils the gunman as extremely intelligcn very articulate belted winter radial 97 belted winter tire 77 Ea AR7813 Ea A7813 Whitewall Whitewall Installed Installed Snow Guard radials at low low prices Special offering and direct 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