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alt 16 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tuesdoy, August 1, 1967 CENTURY OF CRIME History Shows Kidnapping | Unprofitable In Canada . By JOHN LeBLANC Canadian Press Staff Writer When it comes to kidnap- ping, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose Canadian abductors haven't much of a winning record. The country's biggest kidnap case was highly organized but an all-around flop. On the other hand, the casual snatch of a sporting man was a mod- est success THE LABATT CA On all scores, the 1934 kid- napping of millionaire brewer John §S. Labatt of London, Ont., was pretty much a fail- ure. The abductors asked for $150,000 but got cold feet be- fore collecting.. They invested $600 in the job but grossed only $99 out of the brewer's pockets. After returning him $1 for taxi fare when they turned him loose, they were left with a net loss of $502 For a long time, the law wasn't doing much better. By the end of a year of investiga- tion it had managed to pin a 15-year prison term on David Meisner, a Cincinnati bookie, and was holding Kingdon (Piccolo Pete) Murray, from the same area, on a kidnap charge. It turned out to be nistaken on both counts. It wasn't until a conscience-stricken abductor rere started talking from a jail in Crown Point, Ind., that every- one got straightened away on the happenings in Canada's most spectacular kidnapping case. The millionaire was snatched from his car on a back road in southwestern Ontario and driven 275 miles to the Muskoka area, where he was kept chained to a bed three days. A ransom "Three-Fingered left. in the car out, on his eventual confes- sion, to be Michael Me- Cardell, born near Dublin, Ont., but living in Detroit. Po- lice found him in the Crown Point jail on a tip from Jack Bannon, former Windsor beer-runner and finger man of the operation, who picked up $500 for the information. McCardell's confession impli- cated Bannon, Detroit sales- man Russell Knowles and one Albert Pegram of Detroit McCardell, Pe gram and Knowles had held Labatt in a cottage near Bracebridge, note signed Abe" was Abe turned Ont. Pegram and Knowles headed for Toronto's Royal York Hotel, where they had told the Labatt family to take up quarters. When they looked in on a lobby swarm- ing with police and reporters, Pegram: headed the car due south and drove straight to Cincinnati. Knowles. took a bus back to the cottage. Next day, he and McCardell got another car and dropped the brewer like a hot potato on the outskirts of Toronto and headed for the. United States. Labatt had originally de- scribed his guardian at the | cottage as an athletic 175- pounder. Later he identified him as Meisner, who was a | scrawny 118-pounder, 55 years old and blind in one eye. Finally, after McCardell talked, he decided McCardell was the man. Meisner went free. So after spending seven months in jail. Knowles and Bannon got.15 years apiece, McCardell only 12, thanks to his evidence. Pegram hasn't been heard of since. John 'Labatt died in 1952 ABE RANSOMS HIMSELF Damon Runyon once wrote a tale called The Snatching of Bookie Bob. It was no more whimsical than 'the 1937 kid- napping of Abe Orpen, a pa- triarchal and well-heeled To- ronto sporting man. Orpen, 84 at the time, was | the millionaire owner of Dufferin and Long Branch racetracks and the National Sporting Club, where he was scorned «wer ee" | Come What May, Vietnam Takes Priority In U.S. Capitol over an office equipped with an ancient safe stuffed with large bills. One day three | armed men turned up ear- lier; trussed up the caretaker and a later-arriving handy- man; made ineffectual passes at the safe and settled down to wait for the boss. e did Piccolo Pete, | & re EN -- il ae, j : B ; L | | # | as ae 4) * ag & » AE lp Bears in Ontario's Algon- quin Park are said to be the best fed in Canada and this garbage dump is the chief reason. As many as 18 ie ie Fe . 4 ALGONQUIN BUFFET, BEAR STYLE bears have been counted feasting on the dump at the same time. The dump is also popular with tourists and campers who stop to WASHINGTON (CP) -- Come Middle East crisis, race riots orjord rate of disapproval for the President de Gaulle's friction-/ way the war is being handled. public opinion poll showed a rec- | bombing of North Vietnam |cannot be halted, at least it will watch the bears. And the bears, their appetites satis- fied, sit back and watch the people. --CP Wirephoto Some observers feel if the While waiting, they break- fasted on sandwiches from the club icebox washed down with the morning milk which they took in from the front steps. On Orpen's arrival with a chauffeur, they tossed all three hirelings into the walk-in cooler and took the owner into his office to dis- cuss business. When he told them he couldn't open the safe (which held $12,000) because they had jammed it, they an- nounced he was being held for $5,000 ransom. Abe talked them down to $1,000 and said he would have to get it from his bank. They all piled into the jov- | filled Canadian visit, everything) Fifty - two per cent of the|continue to be contained rela- lin the U.S. capital eventually;American people queried as of|tively speaking. turns back to Vietnam. |mid-July--before the U.S. race a U.S. State Secretary Deanlriots reached their most serious| OPPOSES ESCALATION Rusk made it plain Sunday that|stage--said they disapproved of| Roswell Gilpatric, a former it is business as usual in that| President Johnson's handling | deputy defence secretary, writes far-away war. A commitment of| and only one-third expressed ap-|that "never again in our time about 560,000 men in and around| proval. may there occur greater oppor- South Vietnam is expected to be| Worse, from the president's| tunities than exist today for the boosted by perhaps another 30,-| view, 56 per cent feel the Us. |U.S. and Soviet Russia to deal 1900 on-the-ground forces to dois losing ground in the war or|Wwith world problems by accom- the job the South Vietnamese| standing still compared with 51|modation and by understanding. themselves increasingly can't or|per cent last January, the poll). - - jwon't perform. | Says. The relationship basically has | Most important, Rusk said! Only 40 per cent favor com-| weathered Vietnam so far, he there will be no bombing pause|mitting more troops, says the says, but "it is far from certain --the key Communist condition| poll, and 49 per cent oppose dis- they would survive another ma- for peace talks--until there is a|patching more troops. |jor scalingdup in intensity of "message" through established) At the time the poll was) that conflict." {channels on what reciprocal act|/taken, it was understood the! Ye says further military esca- North Vietnam will take. |military sought at least 100,000) jation by the U.S., which in the He spoke as the latest Gallup|more men. |past has improved Johnson's | ial sportsman's li one of the kidnappers picking up the chauffeur's cap on the way and acting as driver. Orpen went in and cashed a cheque for $1,000, which he turned over to the trio. After giving them a short talk on the evils of crime, as he recounted later, he offered to roll them high dice for the ransom, double or nothing. The abductors declined, say- ing they needed the money. They drove him a couple of miles and turned him loose. He explained later that he hadn't called police from the down a main artery | |popularity rating, would harm |Soviet influence in North Viet- La Ronde Enchants, Draws"... se. ium 'Immense Penniless Crowds London writer, says in an opin- ion published here that the So- MONTREAL (CP)--La Ronde, {in the free water show while the | Expo's enchanting enter-|Jittle cars of the sky ride swung viet Union and China are "locked in the final stages for tainment world, draws crowds half empty on long cables over- as honey draws flies--but some- the aliegiance of the North Viet- how lacks the knack of get- namese leadership." ting money from their pockets. |waNY CARS EMPTY He sees the Hanoi head. When night falls and pavilions} |win "but if the bombing is sus- pended . . there is a good There were 30 people on the chance that Hanoi doves may |who support China--tending to close, the foot-weary and mind-|199.seat ferris wheel, six on a prevail on the hawks to agree to! § weary head in droves for the| whizzing thr jat{ 3 zzing thrill ride and one ion." |magic atmosphere of the softly-| third of the bumping cars were negotiation. MILLIONAIRE brewer cold feet and released him bank because he had given |). : John §. Labatt of London, without much of aneffort to his word on a deal. He eee age night air,| met: iseems likely to take although| Ont., was abducted in 1934 coliect the money. This couldn't identify anyone be- noon over boiles: of minis in Unlike the restaurants. and|Zorza says another chance may) and héld in a Muskoka cot photo of Labatt was taken cause they had taken off his | French-Canadian restaurants or |82mes which are let to conces-|not come for a long time. glasses. He died three months later tage for $150,000 ransom in 1932. However, the abductors got --CP Photo BEFORE THE MAGISTRATE : Mandatory Jail Terms stomp and sing in the Bavarian | onaries, the 23 rides that make |beer garden. But they don't up the heart of the amusement hawks--| , That is not a risk that U.S.| ; Tides: 2 3: Monday, an average evening, a crowd of several thousand stood to watch acrobatic skiers . |Expo forecasters had Anguilla Ends | would be taek ta he dizzying that the corporation hoped to ;make big money on La Ronde. But, so far, the rides have brought in only a disappointing 64 per cent of the $7,216,555 figured A iy ont es iss Lead go on the Py expo, Tt was and, onesie |Swiss eader 'Confers With PM OTTAWA (CP)-- Swiss Vice- President Willy Spuehler con- ferred with Canadian govern- ment leaders, headed by Prime Levied For Intoxication Three men received manda-jed to escape the pursuit of a tory jail terms when they ap- cruiser. He was fined $200 andjcosts on the unsafe Melnychuk was fined $25 and| BRIDGETOWN, Barba dos| they're being made. vehicle|(Reuters)--The tiny Caribbean| peared before Magistrate Don-|costs or 30 days and had his|charge. In addition he forfeited | island ef Anguilla agreed today ald Dodds in Oshawa Mazgis-|licence suspended for a period| the vehicle to pay for having it}tg end its two-month secession vehicles during the first three! yinister Pearson, for more than |months of the fair. 'an hour Monday on_ subjects It calls for changes and ranging from watches to last week's de Gaulle visit. Sunday, bright new red-and-) Dr. Spuehler, who is also yellow ticket booths appeared |Switzerland's foreign minister, on the site as fair officials be-|arrived here Sunday for a Cen- gan a determined attempt to at-|tennial Year visit. | Secession trate's Court Monday and were jof 18 months convicted of charges involving) CARELESS DRIVING alcohol. Edwin Mullen, 63, no fixed)! xj address, was sentenced to 90/3 charge of careless driving. days in the Alex Brown Clinic The youth admitted driving at in Mimico where he will re-|sneeds up to 90 miles per hour ceive treatment for his alco-|aiong Harmony Road convicted of public: Intoxication marked police cruiser. He was days for Eldon Mullen, 30, Of|peace Dg OP sy carpe ratte fined $100 and costs or 20 days.|RR 4, Darlington Boulevard} Mullen had been convictec me sale ae ; awe on the average of on ea sana DISORDERLY Pigg ea a : "| When a police officer wouldn't $25 FINE for the past seven months on public intoxication charges. The ; > ed * as reach ea ee a e ats ter so he could make a phone five days for Herbert Nichols,'peace - keeping force provided eae a. comolete and total call. the father of two began 41. of 549 Lansdowne Dr by other Caribbean states to nuisance to the police and to '% Use obscene language in the! $100 FINE ensure that return to constitu- the public" lobby of the police station. He When police came upon the tional rule is carried out, : was convicted of disorderly|car driven by John James Sul-| smoothly. 30 DAYS conduct and fined $25 and costs|livan, 35, of 68 Garrard Rd.,| Britain, represented at the Pleading guilty to a charge jor five days RR 3, Oshawa, was out ofjconference by its Common-} of minor consumption of alco-| PAIRED gas and Sullivan was sleeping; wealth minister, Lord Shep-| hol led to a 30-day term in the} 4 conviction on the charge of over the right front fender ofjherd, promised to strengthen county jail for Richard/impaired driving resulted in a{the car. He was convicted of|the economy of the 35-square- give Daniel Gal Bruce : St gher, 24, of 186 for a chan : while] of public int holic problem. He had been|attempting to evade an un-|ina fine of $ quar- towed away. On a charge of | minor consumption of alcohol} ays $25 FINE | A plea of guilty to the charge ation resulted} and costs or five} Having beer in a car resulted Anguillan council "as speedily | in a fine of $25 and costs or from the new three-island state of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla. naticn of 5,000 persons in the Caribbean. It was drawn up at a Com: monwealth Caribbean confer- ence assembled here to make between: the rebellious Anguillans and the central gov- ernment of St. Kitts It provides for elections for an for a as possible'? and calls Sprague, 19, of Victoria Street, | rine of $200 and costs or 20 days|having open liquor in his ve-|mile island and help develop its Stouffville. He had had three!s,) tarold Shepherd, 51 recent convictions for the same! ponovan Cres.. pleaded guilty offence. 10-DAY TERM Ten days in the county jail Whitby. He had "E CAR Samuel Melnychuk, 19, of 68 was the sentence imposed on|Barrie Ave., found that buying Thomas Deloray of the Kings-|a cheap car can sometimes be way Motel, Oshawa. He the start of May DANGEROUS DRIVING during a chase througit ] had| more expensive' than expected. been convicted of public intoxi-|The youth had bought a 19. cation for the third time since|for $40. He was later with having an unsafe vehicle Constable Edward Forgette tes-|§ A 19-year-old Oshawa youth |tified in court that Melnychuk's | who tried to outrace a cruiser| vehicle the |brake, three bald tires, a floor 2Ford had .no emergency streets of Oshawa on May 14\ which was rotted away, and a was convicted of driving by Magistrate Dodds Donald Phillip Wragg, Mary St. N., speeds over 100 miles per hour |istrate 889 | admitted racing at\ed on the road," said the mag-|him on suspended sentence for|he was making a phone call. dangerous |front seat which moved forward|ing a when the car was. braked. 1 'or 20 days. MINORS Two Kitchener youths plead-jernment under the constitution | the spectacular midnight water minor |granted by Britain five months|and fireworks display, many Alfred | ago. They rebelled May 30, oust-| visitors find La Ronde offers jed guilty to charges of }consumption of alcohol. |Novak, 16, of 282 Brideup. St.,|ing the 13-man police force from} land Alec Spetko, 17, of 179] Edwin St., were convicted of $50 and costs or 10 days. | ! NTENCE | Guiseppe Russo of 149 Alma} St. ,was convicted to watching jand besetting a young girl at- tempting to go home after visit- girlfriend. Magistrate Dodds felt that Russo had of 919 hicle and fined $100 and costs! tourist industry. Anguillans were bitter about their lack of effective local gov- their island. ged|the charge and were each fined|4 charge of minor consumption i He was fined $50|tor Philippe de Gaspe Beaybien |told a recent news conference, of alcohol. and costs or 10 days. William Giddings, 147 Mill St. pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault. The charge had been laid when John Joseph Rogers complained that Gid- dings had attacked him in the This car shouldn't be allow-|learned his lesson and placed|lobby of the Central Hotel while "Cars this should like on Thornton Road North dur-|/be taken off the road just as ing a chase around Oshawa in|quickly as the police can locate which the motorcyclist attempt-!them." a period of six months, MINOR | Gary Muir, 18, of Scotsburne, | LNova Scotia, pleaded guilty to i Giddings was fined $50 and costs or 10 days and placed on a $200 bond to keep the peace eis ------| rides. for three months, tract. more visitors on more| Roger J. Snoxall, 22, of 1042|Melnychuk pleaded guilty and| The agreement ended efforts| Tides. st. W., pleaded guilty to| Was fined $50 and costs or 10 ty establish a postage-stampe| MORE THAN DOUBLE Art Gibbon, public relations | officer for La Ronde, was able| |to report happily that in the|a rebuke from the prime minis- \first 24 hours after the new cir-|ter for encouraging Quebec sep- lcular booths were installed, aratists. riders more than -doubled_on| one of the least popular thrills: Price changes' are also planned to offer "reduced fares on rides during -slack - morning! dian fariff on Swiss' watches and after-midnight 'periods.- De- tails of the reductions are still, to be worked out but one' La) Ronde spokesman said the changes will be. announced at al news conference later in the} week. : Meantime, a more subtle change is quietly getting under way--an unheralded reschedul- ing of some free entertainments. What with free'log-rolling and water displays in the afternoon, strolling queue entertainers and more than enough fun without spending money on the thrill This is why, operations direc- certain of the free entertain- ments are to be rescheduled so as not to conflict with peak busy hours for the rides. Monday, David Allen, enter- tainment co-ordinator for the amusement park, confirmed that a new schedule for free at- tractions is to be released Thursday. But he would not comment on the rationale be-| hind the changes. Canadian. sources said Mr. Pearson explained. what hap- pened last week 'when French President:'Charles de Gaulle, also in Canada on a Centennial visit, left prematurely following Walter Hofer, head of the Ca- nadian division of Switzerland's public economy department, said his country felt the Cana- was "slightly too high." The Swiss delegation won. a promise from the Canadian side to: think over the complaint. Heart Attack Kills Broadcaster TORONTO (CP)-- Robert F. 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