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un atnlin s Bants it ate ole Thursday, March 27th, 1930 Aw, # *# t *# # te . * @© "® t# #* *# "*, # # ## hnd * # #4 *# Li w# + **« # t ... Lad Under the Auspices of the zh Cad *# L #* # # Â¥* *# # vetes *.,* * °® %°% # o"‘o According to despatches from Toronâ€" to Hon. Wm. Finlayson, Minister of Lands and Forests, on Monday of this week introduced a bill in the legislaâ€" ture at Toronto with the purpose, of doubling the appropriation for Northâ€" *# Â¥* 4 "ern Development purposes. The apâ€" TEN MILLION DOLLARS FOR 1 DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH Hon. Wm. Finlayson Introduces Bill for Doubling of Grant to Northern Deâ€" velopment. Other Matters in Ontario Legislature This Week. THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO for Since 1912, with one or two excepâ€" _ | tions, a grant of $5,000,000 has been made by the Legislature each year for this week. This year, the Minister said, he was asking the House to grant $10,000,000 because of the everâ€"increasâ€" nâ€" | ing demands being made on the fund. of "It will not mean," he hastened to his | add, " that $2 will be available in the laâ€" | coming year where $1 was available _of |last year. During the 18 years this ‘thâ€" policy has been followed, the yearly apâ€" expenditures have averaged $2,200,000." propriations previously made were not in excess of half this amount. Notice was given a week or two ago by Hon. Mr. Finlayson that the bill presented on Monday would be brought before the house. He added that the scope of the Northâ€" ern development work had reached a plane when it was considered wise for larger vote to be made, although it did not necessarily follow that all the money would be spent. The bill reâ€" ceived first reading. Duriréz a discussion of additional supplementary estimates. Hon. Charles McCrea, Minister of Mines, said that the quality of the lignite coal deposits discovered last year at Blacksmith Rapids on the Abitibi river was "just as good as some of the Western Canâ€" ada lignite." About 150 tons of the coal had been mined and was being sent to various laboratories for testâ€" ing purposes, he said. The extent of the field had not been wholly deterâ€" mined. Drillings had shown maximum depths of 58 feet and already several millions of tons had been mapped out. He assured the House that the whole area was being reserved by the Govâ€" ernment and there would be no priâ€" vate exploitation. The quality of the lignite, shown in the tests, was such that it would be "a very valuable asset to Ontario in a manufacturing way," the Minister said. In addition, there were many valuable byâ€"products which would be developed. Processes of briquetting and other necessary treatment before the lignite could be placed on the market would be experimented with as soon as a sufficient supply had been mined. The Crown attorney, addressing the eccroner, said that if the jury was satisâ€" fied that they could give a reasonable verdict, he would be satisfiecd. In reâ€" ply to a question from the coroner, Robert Rankin, foreman of the jury, said that it might be advisable to clear the courtroom. When this was done, the girl resumed her story. "One fellow," she began, "mo.her did not know I loved him. She was tryâ€" ing to keep me away from him as much as she could. When she found out, I killed her. I had asked her if there was anything wrong in going with this boy. Mother had said I was tco young. I had told her there was no harm if a person loved. Then mother had met her death." Second reading was given the Govâ€" ernment bill to compel all motorists convicted of a charge arising out of an accident in which injury had been done or property damage resulted, to give proof of financial responsibility. The bill, which incorporates a semiâ€" compulsory insurance scheme, followed the receipt by the Government, of the report of Mr. Justice Hodgins, who inâ€" vestigated the whole field of autoâ€" mobile insurance and rates. Twisting her coat about her almost jauntily, the girl stepped forward to the witness box. Mr. Curry then raised his objection, saying that it would not be advisable that she, the girl, should make a statement now. The inquest was only a court of inquiry and the girl was not on trial. Coroner Dr. A. E. Ranney admitted that it might not "be wise for her to make a statement now." However, when the girl was asked if she wished to make one, she tearfully replied: ‘"Yes." "We‘l," she began, "there is one felâ€" lowâ€"Oh, I can‘t tell it." Hon. G. S. Henry, Minister of Highâ€" ways, announced that it was not the Government‘s plan to put into immeâ€" diate effect the portion of the bill deaiâ€" ing with the "demerit system" for motâ€" orists. Under it, a motorist who was convicted of a highway offence or preâ€" cipitated an accident would have to pay 10 per cent. extra for his insurance; for two offences in a year, the penalty would be 25 per cent. and for three, 50 per cent. For a clean record for a year, the motorist would be shifted backward one section. Altogether 21 bills were advanced one stage. Six bills received third reading, 11 bills were passed in committee stage and four received second reading. Among the latter was a bill which would increase from $8,000 to $10,000 the salaries of Ministers in charge of Government departments. Additional supplementary estimates totalling $729,535 were passed. A vote of $50,000 was made for exploration work in the Abitibi River lignite fields. A vote of $190,000 was made for the taking over by the Province of the county police forces. NORTH BAY GIRL SAYS SHE KILLED MOTHER WITH AXE The admission was made against the advice of her counsel, A. B. Curry, and after the court room had been cleared of all but the jury and witnesses. The statements of Mrs. Marie Ellis, Mrs. L. P. Didier, Dr. A. E. McMurchy, who had been called to the scene of the crime and who later performed the postâ€"morâ€" tem examination, Chief of Police Clark, her brother, Dalton Faster, and Deputy Chief Dennis, had all been taken when Crown Attorney T. E. McKee called the girl. Despatches this week from North Bay tell one of the most amazing and depressing stories of tragedy in the news for some time. The story is the killing of a mother, and the confession to the authorities by a fifteenâ€"yearâ€" old girl that she cominitted the terâ€" rible deed. "Mother would not let me go with the boy I loved, and I killed her." the girl is quoted as telling the jury. The witness making this stateâ€" ment to the coroner‘s jury was the 15â€"yearâ€"old daughter of Mrs. W. F. Foster, of North Bay. One despatch continues the terrible story as follows: Fifteenâ€"Yearâ€"Old Girl Makes Grewâ€" some Statement to Coroner‘s Jury. Says Mother Would Not Let Her Go With Boy Friend. The hand axe which the girl had used to strike her mother to death was shown to her. She told the jury that she had killed her mother "with this axe." She had called her mother from another part of the cellar, where she was washing, into the fruit room. She had the axe in her hand at the time and when her mother entered the room she struck her. She hit her mother twice before she fell. To the Crown attorney, the girl said that she knew exactly what was going to happen when she called her mother into the fruit room. Her mother asked her, she said, "What are you doing this for?" and the girl told her because "you would not let me go with the boy I love." She had struck her mother many times. She did not know the number. She did not want to see her suffer. Her confession over, she reâ€" sumed her seat rather composedly. Throughout the hearing the girl showed little interest in her surroundâ€" ings. As the early evidence was given and even when the hand axe was proâ€" duced she sHowed little emotion. When her brother appeared in the witness box, however, she cried for the first time and she turned her head away. When she made her confession of the crime, she stood before, the jury preâ€" ferring to do so, she said. +. C o C o o o o i o i o . i o . o . . o o C o. o o o o o n o n o o o n io o e o o o o io o o o o o o 5 n * o 44 1 Mrs. Marie Ellis, the first witness called, stated that the girl had come over and told Mrs. Didier that "mother has fallen down the stairs and hurt hersel" Mrs. Foster was 45 years of age. Her husband is a conductor on the Temâ€" iskaming and Northern Ontario Railâ€" way, and left the house this morning two hours before the happening. He returned to North Bay in the afterâ€" noon. . . t . . . . t . . o s i o . . o . . o o . i i . i i C o 5 5 ib . in i5 i5 i5 i5 15 6 16 % 46 44 44 4 t * * Mrs. L. H. Didier testified that the Foster girl had come over to her vlace about 9.30 o‘clock and told her that her mother had fallen downstairs. Directed by the girl, she was taken down cellar. In reply to her question as to where her mother was, the girl pointed to the fruit cuboard and said: "In that little cupboard. Open the dcor. she‘s fainted." She did so and fcun: Mrs. Foster lying on the floor in a pcol of blood. The girl appsared very nervous, so much so that she could not hold the telephone receiver in her hand. Following the inques:, the girl was taken to the district jail where she will remain until arraigned before Juvenile Court Judge C. S. McGaughey tomorâ€" row on a charge of murder which charge was laid by Chief Qlark this morning. The girl was in charge o1 John Brown, Children‘s Aid officer, and Constable Bell. The jury was composed of Robert Rankin, foreman; J. E. Chollette, George wW. Deegan, Alvin Miller, P. J. Doyle, F. A. Burnside and F. A. Lsâ€" febvre. Dr. A. E. McMurchy, who was called to the scene of the crime at about 9.45 to 10 co‘clock, said that the cause of death was a fractured skull. There were many cuts about the woman‘s head, face and arms and a deep incisâ€" ion in the right temple. When showed the hand axe, he was of the opinion that such was the weapon which was used. Chief of Police Clark stated that in a reply to a telephone message, he had gone to the Foster home. The girl was there and told him that her mother was downstairs hurt. He had searchâ€" ed the fruit room for a weapon but found none. Later, with her brother, he had found the hand axe in a pail on a shelf in another part of the celâ€" lar. There was a little water in the pail, but the axe was still stained with blood. He identified the axe produced by the Crown attorney as the one found. The girl had told him that she was alone in the house with her mother. He had the girl taken to the police station and held on suspicion. He had found a blood stained wedding ring on the shelf in the room. The girl had admitted taking it off her mother‘s finger. The chief of police identified bloodâ€"stained stockings and a bloodâ€" stained dress as articles worn by the girl when taken to the station. Dalton Foster corroborated the eviâ€" dence of Chief Clark regarding the finding of the axe. He said he did not go into the fruit rcom to see his mother‘s body. When the brother came to the witness box, tears came to his sister‘s eyes, the first genuine emotion she had shown so far at the hearing. The verdict of the jury follows: ‘"We, the jury find that Mrs. W. F. Foster came to her death at her resiâ€" dence, 140 Fifth avenue, west, by a hand axe in the hands of her 15â€"yearâ€" old daughter at about 9.30 o‘clock on March 24, and, according to her daughâ€" ter‘s own evidence, we hold her reâ€" sponsible for the death of her mother." WE SELL FOR LESS WHY PAY MORE? Goldfield Drug Store 1..0.0.F. HALL, TIMMINS Saturday, March 29th, commencing at 10 a.m. (Auspices of the Rebekahs) FAREWELL PARTIES HELD AT CONNAUGHT STATION Presentations Made to Mrs. A. Swayne and to Mr. and Mrs. Jos Clemens on Their Leaving Conâ€" naught. Other Connaught News. V 1 Connaught, March 26th, 1930. Speâ€" cial to The Advance. A. R. Swayne, for several years staâ€" tion master at Connaught, has been transferred to Temagami station. He will be followed by the good wishes of hosts of friends in Connaught and disâ€" trict who have appreciated his good citizenship here. He left this week to take up his new duties. Mrs. A. R. Swayne was the recipient of a handsome tray presented by the Ladies‘® Aid of the United Church on the occasion of her departure to Temâ€" agami. The following address was read ~by the president:â€"Connaught Station, Ont., March 17th, 1930. Dear Mrs. Swayne:â€"While we are met toâ€" gether this evening, we, the members of the Ladies‘ Aid, take the opportuniâ€" ty of expressing our sincere regrets that you are going from among us, and ask you to accept this small token of our esteem and appreciation of your many helpful services vendered not only to our society but to the communiâ€" ty at large. You have always been a willing and helpful worker in all our social aetivities in our viliage and your loss is going to be very hard to replace. We trust that you and your family will be very happy in your new home, that your husband will find his work in Temagami both pleasant and profitable and that even while you are making new friends you will always have a tender spot in your heart for Conâ€" naught and the many old friends you have left here. Signed, on behalf of the Connaught Station United Church Ladies‘ Aid, President." The New Liskeard Speaker last week says:â€"*"The Military Camp will be held from"9 to 19 July inclusive, but the place for a site has not been settled." The Girls‘ Club of United Church are holding rummage sale on Saturâ€" day, April 5, in basement of United Church, Doors open at 9 a.m. 13â€"14 Last Tuesday evening ma number of friends of Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Clemens took the opportunity of bidding them farewell and presenting them with a handsome floor lamp and electric perâ€" colator as a mark of the high regard and popularity in which they are held in Connaught. Mr. and Mrs. Clemens ave taken up residence on Wilson avenue, Timmins. Mrs. Carriere, of Cobalt, is the guest of Mrs. Leo. Racicot. Mrs. Day entertained a few friends from South Porcupine, Timmins, and Connaught, to luncheon bridge on Saturday last. Mrs. A. Bromley, of Pembroke, Ont. is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. H B. Briden. John Jokkalla spent a few days last week in Timmins. Mrs. C. Pepin is visiting in Timmins. D. O‘Connor left Friday for North Bay to attend the funeral of his broâ€" therâ€"inâ€"law, M. Flannery. The Kirkland Lake last week says:â€""Mrs mins, is visiting her George Robertson, for Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Swayne have moved to Temagami. Mr. Swayne has taken over charge of the station there. Mr. Barron, of Larder Lake, is replacâ€" ing Mr. Swayne here and has moved here with his family. The Ladies‘ Aid of the United Church held a very successful sleigh ride party and bean supper Monday evening, March 17th. A very fast game of hockey was playâ€" ed in Connaught a few days ago beâ€" tween "Mileage Eleven" and Connaught with the score of 3 to 5 in favour of Connaught. Mr. and Mrs. O‘Connor have moved into the house occupied previously by Mr. and Mrs. Clemens who have movâ€" ed to Timmins. H. B. Briden left Tuesday morning for Haileybury for a few days. C. Charron, school inspector, visited the separate school here on Thursday last, and was greatly pleased with the progress being made. _ Leon Bertrand spent St. Patrick‘s with friends in Timmins. Miss J. Larouche left on Sunday last for Rouyn, Que., to spend a few weeks with her sister, Mrs. Boivin. Miss Mildred Hubert, of Monteith is spending a few weeks in town. Northern News Small, of Timâ€" daughter, Mrs. a few days."