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§ THE OSHAWA TIMES, Friday, July 28, 1967 DR. ALFRED VALD- MANIS leaves the court- h in St, John's, Nfid., after his conviction in 1954 for defrauding the New- foundland government of $200,000. The former direc- tor-general of the province's economic development re- ceived four years prison. (CP Photo) CENTURY OF CRIME Multiple Killers Paid Death Penalty For Crimes By JOHN LeBLANC Canadian Press Staff Writer Wholesale killers have left few black pages in the an- als of Canadian crime. The infamous "Dr. H. H. Holmes" ended his long ca- reer of murder-for-money st Toronto. Harry Orchard, born in Ontario, went off to the United States to rent out his as a dynamiter. Earle on, the "Dark Strangier"' a score of women, was ght to the gallows at peg. And J.-Albert ith a superfluous wife, put ae aboard an air- craft and became the first man to murder by the plane- load. prasad AS A CARFER was en Tc onto in October, 1894, In one hotel he established Mrs. Benjamin F. Pietzel of St. Louis, Mo., whose hus- band he had murdered a few weeks earlier in Philadelphia. In another he placed her two smal|- girls. He had killed their younger brother in Min- olis and was about to kill . In a third hotel he had nan described as his osed wife." None knew resence of the others Mudgett, better known to connoisseurs of crime by his pse panne DpH. a, mes, was in the midst of icate--and final . Up to now he bout 10 persons, is no definite He was a native of New with a medical which he had fi- y insuring a friend 1 providing a body on to collect the insur- _H s subsequent life con- j sly of a series of swindles plus murders ed secretaries, d mistresses, either r money or for insur- is was to come out ¥, his, last myrder- jie with the Pietzels, He iged a $10,000 polity n Pietzel, an' im- inventor, who was hiding while Mudg- d an appropriate d collected. Mudgett cou t get a body resem- 2 Pietzel so he decided to »ve on the original plan, off Pietzel in a fake rs, Pietzel, in on the swin- n fretting about husband was going irn up to share the loot, W he stalled her off, Mudgett suspected that a smart. il-year-old daughter Alice had got wise, He took Alice, her sister Nellie and other Howard to Minneapol- is, ostensibly to put them in a hool. There he killed How- d and set off with- the gir Tor onto, where Mrs. Piet had arrived. The record is on why everyone hap- ned to land there about the et me. y reassuring Mrs. Piet- ze her husband would t Mudgett rented a e in Toronto and ed the two girls in a ing them in the cella en he headed back to the United States. the police there were ge z.on the scent. A con- who had failed to get a sed cut on the Pietzel ndle, unaware it had ed. into murder, had t them off. They turned up the rest of the story~ Mudgett eared. in in a monstrous jug- gling act when he arrived in and drew. the nsure. along with Pietzel's and the girl's bodies--and Mudgett was executed for the father's murder, THE DARK STRANGLER When Earle Nelson was hanged at Winnipeg on Jan. 13, 1928, police in Canada and the United States put a "Closed" label on the files of 22 murder cases. During a 17-month period starting in February, 1926, a 7,000-mile trail of stranglings twisted through the West. In almost every case, a woman was found murdered in a home that had been adver- tised for rent or which had rooms to let. One victim was a baby. One man's description 'weaved in and out of the pat- tern, starting at San Francis- co and ending at Winnipeg. He became known as "The Dark Strangler." Within three days in June, 1927, two Winnipeg: women were killed in the same fash- ion. One of the biggest man- hunts in the history of the West was organized, and Nel- son was traced through cloth- ing and jewelry stolen from one of the Canadian women. Nelson, 30, was from San Francisco and his description corresponded with that of the mass killer of women. Before he died--still claiming inno- cence--he said he was subject to recurring headaches and had put in a short term in a mental institution in his youth. THE 'WORST CANADIAN' Few present-day Canadians ever heard of Harry Orchard, but he has been called the By KEN CLARK OTTAWA (CP) -- Premier Stanfield of Nova Scotia has launched a national tour to sup- port his late bid for the Con- servative leadership. The 53-year-old politician, who declared his candidacy last week, campaigned Thursday in !Prince Edward Island. He will spend today and Sat- urday in Newfoundland and go to Glace Bay, N.S., before head- |ing west. He will be in Montreal {next Tuesday and his visit there will include a chat with Mayor Jean Drapeau, a rising political star on the Quebec scene. Mr. Stanfield will be in Tor- lon Thursday, Windsor on Fri- |day and Sault Ste. Marie Satur- jday, Aug. 5, A Campaign aide said the tour jwas to provide the candidate |with "instant imagery" through- out Canada, He is little known loutside the Atlantic provinces. | Stanfield supporters are |counting on him to emerge as a |compromise candidate, one step {removed from the internal party {convulsions over the leadership jof John Diefenbaker. | An eight » member national |committee has been established jto direct the Stanfield cam- | paign. CAMP MAY HELP There are reports that Dalton| |Camp, national president of the} /on the committee. Mr, Camp jurged Mr. Stanfield to run. jonto next Wednesday, Hamilton | Stanfield On National Tour ToCreate 'Instant Imogery' liament have either endorsed Mr. Stanfield or are willing to do so, The list includes all 10 Nova Scotia MPs. Three of the four New Bruns- wick Conservative MPs are also in the Stanfield camp, accord- ing to Mr. Coates. They are Gordon Fairweather (Royal), Hugh John Flemming (Victoria- Carleton) and J. Chester Mac- Rae (York-Sunbury). Also named are David Mac- Donald (Prince) and Heath Macquarrie (Queens), two of the four Conservative MPs from P.E.I, Mr. Coates also claimed the support of three Ontario MPs for Mr. Stanfield: Heber Smith (Simcoe North), Mrs. Jean Wadds (Grenville-Dundas) and Gordon Aiken (Parry Sound). The other two on the 20-MP list are Gerald W. Baldwin (Peace River), and Douglas Harkness (Calgary North), a former cabinet minister. Both represent Alberta ridings, Mr, Coates also said Mr. Stan- field is operating on the basis that Manitoba's Premier Duff Roblin will become the ninth candidate in the race for the leadership held for 11 years by Only name on the committee }made public is Robert Coates, | |MP for the Nova Scotia riding! jof Cumberland. John Diefenbaker. POLICE BROKE THE BANK EASTBOURNE, England (CP)--An electronic gambling phd he on the seafront of this Sussex resort was hurriedly a connected when it started pa ing out every time a police pa- | | Conservative association, is also|trol car drove past. The police 'FM radio tripped the release land anyone playing it hit che Mr. Coates said 20 of the 96 | jackpot when the police were Conservative members of Par-/around. worst Canadian of all time. He was a for-hire killer, and he dynamited at least 19 per- sons out of existence before the law caught up with him. He was born Albert Horsely the year before Confederation in Ontario's Northumberland County. He left there with his landlady, leaving a wife and nwborn child behind, to pick up some easy money in the booming. West. He did it by hooking up with the tough Western Federation of Mi- ners, which for about 20 years ruled most of the nard- rock mines of the western United States and Canada. Between 1890 and 1905 he picked up the title of "the wandering assassin'--though his name was known to but a select few in the federation-- as he moved through the Northwest knocking off straw bosses or strikebreakers for the union for fees ranging be- tween $50 and $500. His biggest job was in the Cripple Creck section of Colo- rado where he dynamited a little railway station near a strike-bound mine and killed 13 non-union men waiting for a train. His last victim was Frank Steunenberg, a former gover- nor of Idaho, who had never been forgiven for calling out troops during a strike while he was in office. Orchard was caught on the spot, confessed, and he and three union offi- cers went on trial for murder at Boise. Silver-tongued Clar- ence Darrow got acquittals for the union men. The dy- namiter was convicted and sentenced to be hanged but got a commutation for talk- ing. He lived on for almost a half-century in Idaho peni- tentiary, dying in 1954. MURDER IN THE AIR Mrs. Arthur Pitre, a buxom Quebec City lady, had a num- ber of distinctive aspects. She Pitre, after an apparent sui- was known as Mme. le Cor- beau--Mrs. Crow--because she always dressed in black. She became the first woman to be executed for mass mur- der in the air. And from cur+ rent indications she may go down in history as the last woman to be hanged in Can- ada. The crash of a Canadian Pacific airliner in which she | was involved was the first of its kind to come to light and apparently set the pattern tor some later ones. All 23 per- sons aboard the plane were killed when it fell at Sault- au-Cochon, Que., on Sept. 9, 1949. The case broke when Mrs, cide attempt, spilled enough to police to enable them to piece togther a _ fantastic murder plot. J.-Albert Guay, a 33-year-old Quebec jeweller, had a wife with a $10,000 in- surance policy and a girl friend he wanted to marry. He put his wife aboard the plane and saw to it that a time bomb went along. The bomb was made by Ge- nereux Ruest, a watchmaker and brother of the woman in black. She delivered the de- vice to the plane. All three were hanged at different times after separate trials. Mrs. Pitre was 43 when she went to the gallows Jan. -9, 1953. She became the only woman to be hanged in Que- bec after 1940 and the only one in Canada to date since 1946. She was also given the minor distinction of being the only convicted Canadian murderer to be allowed to pay respects to a dead hus- band; Mr. Pitre died while she was being held, and his body was taken to the jail for the purpose. Seven of the 10 other women hanged in Can- ada had killed their hus QUARTERBACK BECOMES POLITICIAN ence for 10 years venturing into the oil busi- ness. He also has been seated Education Minister McKinnon. Getty played quarterback for Ed- lete, horseman and oilman, was also successful when he entered politics in Alberta's ran for the Progressive Con- Western Football Press Rates "Unchanged MONTREAL (CP). -- D.-F. Bowie, president of the Cana- dian Overseas Telecommunica-| tion Corp., Thursday confirmed); |London reports that the charge| of 1% cents a word for trans- mitting news from Canada to Commonwealth countries will 4 \remain unchanged for the pre- |sent. COTC is a Crown. con.pany operating C anada's overseas communications facilities. | Last April 27, the British post 'office announced that effective | Sept. 1 the penny press rate ap- |plying to news going from Bri- tain to Commonwealth coun- tries would be tripled to three- pence a word. At the same it is man He Is said to have loved." The Anglican primate issued a statement Thursday saying: "There is no evidence what- |ever to support Canon Monte- |fiore's reported ideas, Chris- tians believe that Christ's deal- ings with both men and women were those of a perfect man." Ya time, increase in rates for other types of messages were an-| nounced. So far, no other Common- wealth country has announced! any change in the rate for press) matter which was agreed upon in 1941 to facilitate the flow of news between Commonwealth 'countries during the Second World War. 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The see cal letter from W. k trict Pocket li 'Or power Retraining | sured the board that pay the architect's the centre was neve _The board had as Mayor } From Bi A report from a b tractor, criticizing th gineering depart entangling him in * guments,"' has been Mayor Ernest Mark In a squabble cen an cutdated buildin law, construction president Herman said in a brief to be trol yesterday, "we fed up with the dep But the chief after hearing eviden partment officials, s port--spurred by a check on a. Kassingt was "intemperate" of the, board's. time, "There has been 1 sented to us that in déepartthent's action house construction a a concrete strength wrong," the Mayor Mr. Kassinger sai port, "this is not a | of dictorial state; thi ing inspection depart City of Oshawa. 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