Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 19 Jul 1961, p. 5

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aFiles Are NeverClosed On Unsolved Murders By BRUCE LEVEH €811th Prm Ell Writer The files never close on mur dcr As the list of unsolved alay ings grows the older case are pushed farther hack in police cabinets But periodically in vestigators blow the dust from the folders read again the tales of violent death and seek solu tions in the llght of new tedl uloucs and later developments Some policemen say there is no such thing as an unsolved murder that all were unsolved In the beginning and some just take longer than others There are more than loo mur ders in Canada each year In the nine years from 1951 to 1959 there were 11067 murders known to police in Canada Of these filo were solved On this basis your chances of getting away with it are about 25 per cent How long you will get away with it is another mat tcr In CmssConada Survey The Canadian Press found the list of unsolved slayings longest in such crowded centres as Montreal Vancouver and Tor onto GOLF COURSE KILLING Men women and children have died alone and amid crowds They have cited by mis take and by design Some were slain with cold deliberation and others in the heat of an unre callable moment In some cases the murderer is known but for any one of many reasons cannot be prose culed But the files remain open In the last lo years police files have swallowed up such names as that of Frank Battag lin garottcd in Montreal in loss within an hour of his acquittal an murder charge Nobody has been brought to book in the Jan 1957 slay ing of Clint Bursnn Myearvold bandit stabbed as he mopped the floor in the cast block of overcrowded Stony Mountain Penitentiary 14 miles north of Winnipeg Still sought are the slayers of Danny Brent Vancouver nightclub waiter executed in gangland fashion on the 13th green at University golf course And still unidentified are the tiny forms of the Babes in the Wood young boy and girl believed brother and sister who lay in unmarked shallow graves for six years ln 1000 ocre Stanley Park in Vancou Vet MONTREAL HAS MOST Montreal with its cry of underworld violence and Vancouver struggling with the countrys toughest narcotics problems have the most homes on the unsolved list Montreal city police list at least 20 slayings in the last 10 years as unsolved Provincial police show another eight They include Andre Ochsner Swiss watch Importer choked to death in his luxury apartment in 1956 Police say the killer is known End turned the name Carn eron over to Interpol The same year an unidenti fied male torso turned up in downtown alley The head was found few weeks later Wrapped in butcher paper the features crushed and distorted beyond recognition Larry Petrov had just been charged with possession of nar cotics when he vanished in 1957 Months later his leg was re covered from Laurentian Lake Ernest Costello 33 drank strychninelaced creme do men the at party in Ste Adele North late in 1958 and died in agony Police say they believe the poison was intended for anr other person at the party Ken China Boy Winford 32 nangeron inthe Montreal un derworld took week to die after he was found on Lauren lialn highway with three bullet ES WOULDNT TALK Its my life he told police dont have to talk it dont want to Bank manager Royce Smith gut in the way when three men held up his establishment on May 20 1960 The killers stepped over his body on their way out with the loot Arsene Main 37 and Rejean Raymond 21 died together on Oct 1960 in an alley in suburban Ville St Michel It was gangland ritual slaying each was shot through theback of the head each had his fists clenched in his hip pocket when the bodies were found The year 1953 was bad one HOLIDAYS is Your Car Really Ready defect in your car can spoil yourtrip or even lead to majordlsaster Let us service your car now gt You cant he sure of safety if you arent really sure of your car DANGERFIELDS Service Centre 65 Cfllier St PA 32437 cover March 1959 INSPECTOR Aubrey Potter of the Metropolitan Toronto Police inspects the homicide for Vancouver It left police with six unsolved slayings three in one case David Pauls 53 was slain as he left his home to pick up his wife who was working tale Dorothy their It year old daughter was next she was bludgconed to death in her bed by the killer who entered the house to wait for the mother Mrs Kellen Pauls 44 died as she entered the house from work Rewards totalling $14 000 in this case have lapsed Police say they have one clue an unusual type of gun figured in the case and each time one turnsup anywhere the Pauls file is pulled from its drawer SIIIER STRANGLEI Toronto ho icidc detectives have file with murder in blue capital letters across the In it are listed such unsolved cases as the disappearance of Marion McDowell l7vyearold stenugrapher when she went for last ride with her boy friend in 1953 The 19yearold escort told police they were cuddling in the front seat when setupon by an armed man who sluggcd him uncon scious Robert Fabian famed Scot landland Yard investigator called in to help city police soothsayers and hypnotists wandered through the case but Marion has not been seen since Patricia Ann Lupton 12 was one of the most tragic cases in the crime record of Toronto city with history of child slayings She posted her nahlo on supermarket bulletin board for babysitting work killer ans wered the note and her snowcoveredfield That was in Today her file hears nota tion fAll leads arid possible sus pects have been checked out with negative results and as of this datethe case remains unv solved The Walter Hewlett case is little different The Brewers Retail Warehouse manager was slain in 1955 holdup Several years later drifter died of heart attack in rooming house There was little to iden tify him Police noting it re semblance to the description of the Hewlett killer called back the witnesses some were certain the man was the killer Others were an sure Due to the time lapse and lack of certainty despite strong feeling that the dead who PLAYERS ruElmE TONIGHT pm ADULTS $100 CmLDREN 351 lenva page no vo in mm It ml you on on Will FllEE 2E1 PilSSESi oooo can III unvm whomrm at Drum ml Show 4m WWW LIVE departments file on 1960 murders as he checks new lead Photo driltcr was the slayer the case remains open The whisper vendetta ran through Windsor Ont the night of Aug 20 1958 Antonio Dipasquali Italian immigrant laborer gropcd to his car in darkened factory parking lot At 1201 am he pressed the starter znd died in the explosion he touched off of course we know what it is all about but what can we say his wife said at the time fellow employee com mented Its taken year coming but its come all right No clues case continuing ALL SOLVE Newfoundland Prince Ed ward lsland and Saskatchewan report no unsolved murders during the last 10 years Nova Scotia lists three No unsolved slayings are under investigation in New Brunswick Two bludgconing deaths remain unfinished busi ness for police in Alberta In Ontario outside the Tor onto and Windsor cases at least four others are in the police continuing files RCMP investigators report cases on their booksif only to each month on all murder say have nothing to report this month And police admit there are slayings they never hear about the Babes in the Wood lay dead for six years before gardener stumbled upon their grave Others where the victim is struck down by killer with little to connect him to the crime are almost impossibleto solve But the police philosophy is afternoon do the best we can is the feeling of those who are trying for distance horas Stroud Marks Low 01 spaceman Compared To Others Some aspirants wheat to practice brick throwing Monday night at the township park This was the beginning of the elimination tests In ord er that the names of thosé who win make up the final team may be sent around theworld to the other contestants Strond Ont men so far have not been able to reach score in comparison with that sent in by the Strand Oklahomn team which starts off with their top thrower making score in practice of WI feet 10 inches lie is man weighing 190 munch Their second top thrower with weight of 206 pounds made dlstance of 102 feet inches The others of that team with welghls as high as 225 pounds are throw ing about in the same range as Innisfil 96 feet ll indies down to 71 feet 11 inches We are hesitant to name the distances our team are doing but it is safe to say that none have won the basket of grocer ins that is standing offer of the supermarket at Stroud for anyone who officially makes the hundredvfoot throw MUST MAIL NAMES We will have to get the names of our players into the mail as the list should be on hand at the other Strouds by the time of the contest on Saturday However we will Practice seems who the answer and this can not be carried on too much at one session as the arm tires and distance fades THREE IKROWS At the contest each partici pant previously registered as an official player will have three throws They can foul throw bystepplog out of the fifteen toot circle The best By distance reaclledvhy any one of the three throws counts in the final score This isreoordcd as played and at the end of six throwers we are ready to send our records to the rest of the Strouds across the world OUTSIDE INTEREST In letter received fromOkla home yesterday we are warned that we are likely to have con slderable influx of newspaper aadmagazlriejreporters as yvell as photographers for TV and other news agencies Mr Hugh chairman of the Strand 0k lahoma Chamber of Commerce says in his letter written July It You will no doubt have some nationalprcss and radio representatives They took us by surprise last year so am giving you folks some warning You should get some help to handle all enquiries WEATHER AND VISITORS We here in lnnisfll are hope ful that good crowd will be on hand to watch our boys do their best We are striving for at least second place and something could happen that would put us over thetop To morrow we shall publish the names of our team and hope as many as possible of the In nisfll pooplcwill plan an af ternoon in the park on Satur day to see them perform 98 YEARS YOUNG Yesterday we called and paid our respects to Mrs Davld Peacock now living with Mrs Marshall on Parkside Drive Formerly she and her husband kept store at Painswick for 25 years commencing about 1905 Mrs Peacock Is very alert but she says she doesnt think she wants to reach the looyear mark There just are not those around in my age bracket she gave as rea son For pictures Section see Womens Blame Canadian Patent Laws Ils Cause Of High Drug Prices WINNIPEG CP The re strictive trade practices cnmv mission wound up two day drug inquiry herrtuesday alter druggist rejected suggestion that pharmacies had once threatened to boycott ebeby food The exchange came between commission lawyer Mao Leod and representatives of the Manitoba Pharmaceutical Asso ciation The end of the hearing here left the three man commission which is investigating the man ufacture of drugs with solid recommen dations from only one source here distribution and sale These come fromthe Mani toba government in brief which blamed Canadian patent laws for high drug prices The brief recommended patent law revision and an in vestigatmn of the pharmaceuu cal industry The permanent commission headed by Rhodes Smith former Manitoba attorney gen eral resumes its bearing in Re that in every murder case gins Thursday somebday knows who did it At one point Mr MacLeod strangled body was found in or unwittingly holds the key asked if it was true Manitoba MATlNEE DAILY pm éOLDRbeDE oilicleiltg Fun fo Everyone LIJXE OWE STARTS TOMORROW FEATURE AT 720 pm 930 pm EAMouS PLAYERS THEATRE drugguts had once threatened manufacturer with boycott of baby food Pablum to back up their demands that it be handled by drugstores only Anderson registrar of the MPA said representauons had been made to manufactur ers on thisaubject but no such threat had ever been made Pablum now is sold through as wide variety of outlets includ ing drug stores Richardson vice pres ident of the Pharmaceutical As sociation told the commission drug prescriptions generally ac counted for only one quarter of the sales in his suburban Win nipeg store He said newly hired grads note pharmacists are paid any where from $115 to $175 week BEST BUY Save me Mllzolll on BEST BUY Save 35c Chase and Sanborn 20c off pack Ilioz jar instant CIIFFEE am I3qu Suva Sol cum Leaf Tllllll FISH ansr our Save 139 MAPLE lrllr Busy Days on Cuban Visit HAVANA CPA busy three day program highlighted by an address to mass rally in the Plaza de la Revolueion has been drawn up for Russian cos monaut Yuri Gagarin when he visits Cuba next week Gagarin will fly into Havana late Monday afternoon to be greeted by Cuban President Os valdo Dortlcos Premier Fidel Castro and his entire cabinet members of the diplomatic corpsand high government of ficials Then he will be given tri nmphal motorcade ride into the city through streets dccoratcd with flags welcoming signs and hunting Huge crowds are ex pegted to witness the motor ca name nausea Rcv II rt Cantelon radio counsellor in Edmonton list ens lo troubled telephone cal ler in his radio studio Unit ed Church ministcr and mm cipal of Edmontons Alberta College in June 1961 be con ducted similar radio cflunsel ling program in Saskatoon for more than four years CP Photo jun BABRIE EXAMINER WEDNESDAY JULY Canadian Bankers Association Marks Its 70th Anniversary By FORBES REUDE Canadian Press Busines Edlior The Canadian Bankers Asso ciationmaka its 70th anniver sary year an occasion to tell something about itself in its cur rent While Bulletin for July It has only eight members because only the chartered banks are qualified for mom belshlp Its permanent staff is also relatlvely small number ingzz However its member banks have more than 62000 em ployees ranging from lun lors to experts in every line oLthe business Accordingly it can call logetherinfonncd com mittees to work on any subject that interests it and in the words of the bulletin the result is distillation of vast ex perience training and profi gt cicncy The bulletin says it would be impossible to enumerate the changes and improvements in the scope and practices of bank CCF Leader Charges Govt Has No Policy TORONTO CPlazeo Ar gue CCF leader in the House of Commons Tuesday night called the federal governments proposal for royal commission on the Unemployment Insurance Fund sign of great incompev ing that have developed from committee studies but as ex amples names Saturday closings and the use of electron ics in banking The association has big role in connection with each decen nial revision of the Bank Act It sets up series or commitl tees each with separate subl jcct and as the entiresuhlcct of Canadian banking isopen to discussion witness appearing for the banks must be prepared to discuss every facet Prior to Bank Act revision the association customarily pre seats to the governmentlts suggestions for changes modl fications and additions Each bank is customarily rep resented ia the association by its gcneral manager and each has one vote Outlining assoclation actl ties further the bulletin say It works in procedural fields of common concern to all banks and avoids fields that are com petitive among banks Forta stance it exercises no influence or authority over the lending rates charged by banks AIRCONDITIONED IMPERIALE NOW SHOWING lt tence IIe id the speech fromthe throne in November promised legislation would be brought for ward to amend lhe Unemploy ment Insurance Act We were promised policy he sai but apparently even now the is no policy He said the prime minister has had it royol commissions appointed since taking office The shortage in the insurance fund was not matter for commission but one for legisla tion HURONIA 10mm omit Waxow riiiils tiillswiliins mec CHANT colleenf PLUS clsnroow Enjoy Good Movie In Comfort or Your Own Car am 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