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mn PAGE SIXTEEN DONALDS WIL APPEAR FOR TRIAL * DURING FEBRUARY Preliminary Hearing Held at Valleyfield Ends Tuesday DETAILS 'OF CRIME Dr. Fontaine Positively Identi- fies Pistol Used by Slayers Valleyfield, Que., Oct. 21.--Three months ago, the body of Adelard 'Bouchard, murdered Lachine taxi- driver, was found in a watery diteh some four miles out of Huntingdon on the way to the international Joundary at Trout River. Tuesday Judge Gagnon commit- ted George C. McDonald and his w.fe Doris for trial for the erime. after the hearing of evidpnce a' preliminary 'inquiry proceedings which oceupied the whole day. They will be tried in February. Charles Helm, grocer's boy, Hun- tingdon, told the Court of the find ing of Bouchard's body almost at the same hour in which three months previously he explained mat- ters to Coroner Rowat, who viewed the remains on the scene of the fragedy prior to their removal from the Montreal-Malone Highway. McDonald Nervous McDonald was obviously nerv- ous, Doris MeYonald, however, maintained an - air of composure throughout the proceedings, her only evidence of emotion being an occasional quiet laugh with the sharer of her troubles, who, how- ever, sat for the most part with bowed head, shading his eyes with his hand. The climax came at the end of the hearing, when Dr. Rosaria Fon- taine, medico-legal expert from the Montreal morgue was put on tue - THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1927 July 17, and other witnesses to the presence of the car on the highway. Constable John Jocks, R.C.M.P,, testified to having seen and spoken to the accused and another man, when they were driving a car to- wards Montreal, through Caughna- waga, in the early hours of the Monday morning. It is expected that the case will come up in the February term of the King's Bench Assizes at Val- leyfield, unless application is made stand, and after giving formal evi. ifor a change of venue to transfer dence of examination a mortem research, told of a revolver from Denver, Colo; which was the one from 'which the shots taken from the victim's body clety from the had been fired. This brought sharp questions by both Crown and defence forves. consisting respectively of Luager Codebecq, K.C., and Philippe Brais, X.C.; and Joseph Cohen, K.C.; auua Lucien' Gendron. The doctor, however, remained unshaken in his statement, basing his claim on expert tefts maae in relation to both the bullets and the empty shells, both, he stated, re- vealed a number of faults, which made identification easy, Abandoned Auto Other evidence included that of a taxi-driver who picked up three people, among whem he identified the accused at the corner of St, Catherine and Aylmer streets in the early hours of the morning of Mon- day, July 18, Douchard's stolen, wreeked and abgndoned taxi was found on Aylmer street during the course of the same day, Guides from the Mount Royal no- tel testified to the departure of lav the court, that he was in a position to swear. that the Crown was in possession ' poms | the trial to Montreal in the mean- time. Crowds attending Tuesday's sit- tings of the court rivalled anything seen here mince the Muir case, and were drawn from al lclasses of so- surrounding rural disiriets, a® the line-up of automo- biles in front of the Court House testified. The two accused were taken back to Montreal under police escort at the close of the day's progeedings. PLEADS FOR MORE STUDY OF DISEASE {New York State Authority Spebks About Communi cable Ills Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct, 21.--An ap- peal for deeper knowledgé of conn municable diseases and for better administrative procedure to control them, was made by Dr, Edward S. Godfrey, Jr., before the American Public Health Association conven- --_----r GIRL CONVICTED OF KILLING COUSIN Sentenced to Term of Two to 21 Years in Peni- tentiary Marion, Ind., Oct. 21.--Dorothea Walser Wednesday prepared to en- ter a' new phase of her alreauy crowded life. The girl Tuesday was found guilty of participating in the murder of her 12-year-old cousin, Clifford Cox, for his life insurance and automatically was sentenced te a term of two to 21 years In (uv penitentiary. PM The girl is 17, She was married at 15 and became a mother when 16. She apparently did not under- stand at first the meanine of thao words uttered by the jury foreman; but when told vy ues suluer, sue murméred: "Well. that isnt such a terribly long time. ife, now, that's a long, long time." Arthur Walser, her 28-year-o'd husband, appeared uneasy when told the jury's verdict. He goes on trial at the next term of court in con- nection with the same crime. The Cox boy was murdered last May. Dorothea and her hus:anag were arrested a short time later, and confessed to the killing. They la- ter repudiated these confessions, Talked Freely The girl sat Tuesday, holding her baby in her arms, and waiting for the jury to come in. She talked wagons were left unloaded last night with the coming of darkness, but farm- hands kept vigil over their teams till elevator men resumed work this morn- | ing. All the West is slave-driven in a feverish effort to snatch the harvest from danger of further damage while the belated good weather lasts. Yesterday's haul alone was greater | than the total Canadian wheat crop of 1387, and if loaded into box cars it would make a train 20 miles long. ' EXPECT RELEASE OF BRITISH SUBJECT Washington, Oct. 20.--Hopes for the early release of W. E. Mitchell, British subject, captive of bandits in Mexico, were held out today by William P. Blocker, United States Consul at Masatlan, who informed | he State Department that funds , with which to obtain the release had been raised at Ixtlan, in the State of Nayarit, Mitchell was captured by the ban- dits on Oct, 14, when they seized the payroll of the Amajac. Mines, an American concern, of which he is general manager, onerating at Ixtlan, Ransom of five thousand pesos was {demanded for him under threats to kill him if the money was not forth- coming. | The outrage has led the United | States and British Governments to , make urgent representations to the Mexican Foreign Office, Consul . Blockey, also has demanded adequate "military protection for the miners. TANTAKOWER HOLDS LEAD IN LONDON TOURNAMENT London, Oct. 19--While Dr. S. Tar- takower of France retained first place in the international chess masters' freely of the case, expressing hatrea' ournament at the British Empire Club, tion Tuesday. Dr, Godfrey, who is director of three on the afternoon of Sunday, the department of communicable Phones--788-789 Why Do Your Cleaning at Home? Why 1ake the Risk? Twice in the last few weeks peo- ple have been killed, injured and their property damaged by taking the chance with gasoline. Send Your Dry Cleaning we 1O =~ PARKER'S Who are equipped to safely handle ycur work. Our staff of experts makes your old clothes like new, PARKER'S | DYE WORKS 22 King Street East, Oshawa Rcss Coal Office, Brock St. N., Whitby Phone 34 2 x diseases of New York State, Depart- mont of Health, showed specifically | what ages certain diseases attack, Ninhtheria claims more children under five yeans of age; measles cinims more children of one year of age, and whooping cough fatalities ocr more during the first five years of lite, Dr. Godfrey said. His statements were based upon statis- tical data. | Although whooping cough is re- garded as primarily a rural com- | munity disease, he said its high- est mortality in New York state is found in cities of from 10,000 to 50,000 population. Whooping cough ranks mext tc diphtheria as a cause of death, he said, and its death rate has declin- ed less than that of any other child- ren's disease during the past 20 years. Whooping cough is the least completely reported and is perhaps the most difficult to control of the epidemic diseases, he said. Infantile paralysis, Dr. Godfrey said, is found to be most severe in places of less than 5,000 popula- tion and typhoid epidemics are more | freruent in the ssmall cities. Many summer sicknesses are due 'on evternal temperature changes ' Lloyd Arnold, of the University of | Iiinois School of Medicine, told the | convention. These temperature changes he said lower the body's | vitality. | PAWN DELAYED 01d Orchard, Me., Oct, 21.--De- | finite postponement for Wednesday and probably a similar outlook for Thursday was announced Tuesday | hy Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson and her two companions who hope to | fly to Copenhagen in their big am- , phidian, monoplane, Dawn. Conditions Wednesday precluded | any possibility of a take off and ' the forecast was equally inauspici- i ous, ] ROCURED STKYCHNINE hi a DEAD MAN'S WIFE Quebec, Que., Oct, 20--Evidence regarding a life {insurance poliev, taken out by Abraham Gallop, a few weeks before his death, took up most of today's session of the Court of King's Bench, where Mrs Gal- lop is standing her third trial on the charge of having murdered her hus- band, by administering a dose of | strychnine to him, jiu; ' For~ ¢ DIX Solvay Coke Jeddo Premium Coal The Best Produced in America General Motors Wood All Fuel Orders weighed on City Scales if desired. ON'S for her husband, whom she declar- ad plotted the murder, She said she mixed Paris green with lemonade and gave it to uu boy. cense throughout the trial, and res lated acts of cruelty she charged Walser commited against her. But the jury wae convinced she had a hand in the cousin's death 30 Wednesday Dorothea Walser way taken to the penitentiary, WOMAN DECLARES GOD TALKS T0 HE Strange Ritual of American Sect Defended in Court Long Island City, L,I, Oct, 21.-= A detense of the strange ritual of the "Church of God" and its "hea venly conversationalists" began in Supreme Court Tuesday with para- noia and an insane examination in. ihe foreground. Pastor and parishioners of the Jamaica tabernacle of the Church ol god, a pentecostal sect, appeared in behalf or Mrs, Helen Smart, who seeks release from the State Hospi- tal at Central Islip on the ground that she was committed because ol eligions leanings. before Gecision was reserved and the petitioner returned to -the hos- pital, Mrs. Smart testified she pad talked with God," had felt Him "stroke her arms," and was led to take the court action for release on dis spoken advice. "He gives me power and an up- lifted feeling," she said, Rev, Horace A, Tomilson, pastor of the church, declared it the prac- tice of his faith to "converse with the Saviour." A hospital attache testified that Mrs. Smart "might get along out- side of the hospital in proper en- vironment, but her husband does not believe a sane person wou think that God came to her, writing messages o= the wall in pencil and chalk. He also testified she stay- ed at the tabernacle's services as late as tour apd six a.m. Alienists declared Mrs. Smart was suffering from a parapoiac trend, Lut her church meinbers believe she 14 being persecuted. CHURCH FIRES BEING PROBED Alleged Incendiarism in Que- bec Under Investi- gation Quebec. Oct. 21.--A report from Fire Commissioner Latulippe, of Montreal, to Premier Taschereau, may lead to important developments regarding the burning. of numerous churches and other buildings in the Province of Quebec which Ray Mars- den, now in a penitentiary in Ohio, claimed he was responsible for. The report was received by the Prime Minister Tuesday, but he would mot divulge its contents. The Government, the Prime Min- ister said, would mot act upon the Latulippe report. but the Attormey- General's Department is investigat- ing the matter, and until such time as the investigations are cow- tion with the $65,000 worth of valuables he claims to have hidden in the Lacolle district. WESTERN HARVEST SETS NEW RECORD Winnipeg, Oct. 20--AMN previous re- cords iu the history of the grain move- ment in Western Canada were broken Wednesday, when farmers hauled a hotal of sa76781 bushels of gram to the prairie vators along Canadian Pacific Railway Lames. iy She asserted her own inno- | KF. J. Marshall of New York moved | into second place by drawing his game with R. Reti of Czecho-slovakia in the eighth round tonight, Dr. Tartakower defeated Yates, the | British champion. The chief upset of the evening was. the loss of a game | by A. Nimzowitsch of Denmark to W. | Winter, England. This pulled Nimzo- | witsch down to third place. ' COL, RICHARD OOSTIGAN, D.S.0, DIES SUDDENLY IN MONTREAL Montreal, Oct. 20--Colonel Rich- ard Costigan, D.S.0,, Commander of 'the Canadian 6th Divisional Ame munition Column during the Great | War, died here this evening a few | hours after collapsing in an uptown ! street, He was 67 years of age, | The Morning Health Salt ues that Tell Tales HEN your tongue is white and coated it is telling you that your body is not properly eliminating its poisonous waste matter, Unless this condition is quickly rectified it leads to serious illness, doctors state. 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