Oshawa Times (1958-), 25 May 1967, p. 26

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26 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, May 25, 1967 Ford Quoted On Sla TORONTO (CP)--A Supreme Court jury was told today that Wayne Ford in 1964 said "that's what. I did with my mother' when he and friends were talk- ing about a gangster motion picture in which a body en- closed in a box was dumped into a river. John Butcher, 22, of Toronto testified that at that time he thought Ford was joking. | Ford, 20, is charged with the capital murder of his mother, Minnie Ford, 55, on the Vic- toria Day weekend of 1963. Last October, a woman's body was recovered from Lake Couchi- ching where the Fords had a summer cottage. Julius Karu, who owns a cot- tage on Lake Couchiching said he found a body in the lake on Oct. 6, 1966. "I thought it was a mannequin at first, but when I) e told her jokingly four years ago that he "killed his mother and put her in the lake." *® Susan White, who was then Susan McDonald, said Ford was accompanied at the time by a school friend, Ronald Walli, who has testified that he helped Ford dump a crated body into Lake Couchiching during the Victoria Day weekend of 1963. E. B. Gravelle, 72 Has Anniversary GANANOQUE, Ont. (CP)-- E. B. Gravelle, 72, who caused Ontario to set up a film cen- sorship board, today marked 60 years as a motion picture pro- jectionist. Mr. Gravelle screened Birth walked around to see. the face/of a Nation at the grandstand I knew it was human," he tes-;/Show of the Ottawa exhibition tified today. jin 1913, causing Ontario to set He said a blue bag was found|Up its first censorship board. on the beach about six feet} He recalls that the offending from the body. Lettering on the| scene was one in which 100 act- bag said Miami Beach, Florida.|ors with missing arms and legs The court was told about ajhad been hired to create a re- kind of open house that Ford} held in the family home after Mrs. Ford disappeared, SLEPT WITH GIRL William Schrader, 24, who said he was sleeping in Mrs. | Ford's bedroom in the house with a girl called Brenda' North- over said Ford told him that his widowed mother "won't show her face around here any- more or something to that ef- alistic battle scene. Mr. Gravelle is still employed as a projectionist at a drive-in theatre in this eastern Ontario town. He obtained his first job as a projectionist in 1907, when he was 12, after seening one of the first of Thomas Edison's brass and walnut movie projectors to be used in Canada. It was at the old Queen's Park Theatre in fect." | Aylmer East, near Ottawa. Judy Meinke, 22, who visited; He recalled in an interview the Ford home on a number of|today that his job in the early occasions said that at a drink-|days included collecting the ing party "Wayne mentioned) five - cent admissions, putting that he had killed his mother." out minor fires and--when he Tuesday, a 17-year-old mar-|got big enough--throwing out ried woman testified that Ford'noisy patrons. BEFORE THE MAGISTRATE $200 Fine Or 30 Days Sentence For Motorist WHITBY -- "It would have|ronto, $100 or 15 days in jail on been wise to have stayed atja charge of driving while his home that day and had a sleep| ability was impaired. Hine- or some rest. You were not just}man's licence was suspended driving, you were literally fly-|for three months. ing low," said Magistrate H. M. Jermyn during Tuesday's SUSPENDED TERM court session as he convicted|, A Whitby resident, Ronald Andrew Gene Goodwin, 20, of/Janes, was placed on six RR 6, Bowmanville, on a months' suspended sentence charge of careless driving. a ote to sign a bond to] A fine of $200. and costs or 30| Keep the peace." The "accused days was imposed and the. ac- tt heir weeks in custody cused was warned he could lose|{UOWins e laying of a charge his licence for two years. ms assault occasioning bodily The accused was the driver|4arm on his wife. The accused of an auto which left Highway|*dmitted the charge. 401 in Pickering Township and/¢19 FINE qooet sane four ne posts) Convicted on a charge of he median, ran down anispeeding, Donald Wilfred embankment and came to rest/Burtch, of 107 Cherry Street, against a tree. Police said the|Kingston, was fined $10 and vehicle travelled approximately| costs or three days in jail. 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