HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1949-11-24, Page 9TI -HUM NOVEMBER 24th, 1949.
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HURON TOWNSHIP DOCTOR
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• gray oiperated' his haepital and
cared: for soldier patients during
the war. • •
After the war he visas commis
sloped a captain in, the • army
medical Corps. reserve. He held
that commission until September
17,1941, when he was honorably
discharged. Through' both world.
wars he served as •exarrlining
physician for the selective• ser-
vice boards.
Since 19:05• the' ' •M'cGillivrays
have lived in a lovely old house'
at ;21$ North. Vine, • overivoking'
rport'Angeles'. harbor:; ,They have
an' adopted daughter, Patricia.,
The, kindly , country ,'doctor' is.
of a. fa•
me. of six 'brothers
and: three sister's; •. but is the only
one who took up rinedieine•
Other sneinbers of.' the. family
include. ¢larence, a' hotel corpora
tion .manager, .Forest Hills, .N.Y.;
Charles, ,minister of ,:the. United.
Church of Canada, Victoria,: B.C,;
.Cornelius,:., .4r et i r e d pharma
'dist,: San Jose, California.; John;.
, retired realf6r.; :London; Ontario;
•George,, who has ' retired 'to . Kin,
Cardiae, after spending his life
time on • the home.. farm in Huron
Township; `Mrs., : Myrtle Ashley,
Hele '1
and n McGilv ray, both of
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• Wiarton, Ontario
A . third sister, the '. late' . Mrs:
PortAngeles a.
t
at. one time.
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SWAMP DEATH
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getting as far as Goderich, A,1
Goderich they lookedfor a. hotel.
room, found the hotels full, and
stayed • at ;a tourist home for the
night. •
On the morning of • Au gust 24,'
Mills testified Baux began drink.
ing with a' plumber' he met at the.
tourist home, andwhose 'name.
1Vii11s�did not,. know. Later in the
morning, $aux.. :and Mills,.'. went
with ,the plumber to the letter's
home; . ancdid some drinking
there. Mills then ;decided 't call
on 'a, separator e
R_ ator dealer. named Gor-
don Stewart, at'Saratoga 'Hill, six.
miles from Dungannon.annon.
BauxD� Drove Ca
r'
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When'. .
they
at the•
Ste.
wart -:far _, testified;°
they
found that . Gordon : Stew'art was
away from hotrie. , Mrs: Stewart
wart
thought he , might 'be in. Dun-
gannon, Mills said, and Baux vol-
',unteered to drive to Dungannon toy
look for 'Stewart. Fourteen -year-
old CarlStewjart went with Baux
in. Mi114' car, the latter testified,,
so that he would be table to point.
out : his: father or his father's car
to. ' •
Baux► •
Baux had once lived :,at Dun=
gannon, while working on con
struction' of Port' Allbert. airport,
Mills testified, And volunteered to'
look for. Gordon: Stewart partly:
because,he• wanted to visit friends
ins Dur a-nrion '
"It Wasn't very long Mills.
said, -continuing his testimony,,
"until Carl came 'bacok. He'. Was
crying, or halt-r"r'ying:'He`s aid my
new . oar': Was all smashed to
pieces. He; sand Ikey.had' sent him
back to ., tell 'me". '
No Sign of Baux
Mills said ;he had started to
walk back 'with Carl ;Stewart to
the,scerte.of the;•accident, and had'
been picked • up, along- the way by
a .car "driven by :Reg .FIamilton, a
-neighbor of 'the ;Stewarts. He ar-'
rived, at 'the scene of the/ acci-
:dent, he estimated, about ,30 or 4Q.
:minutes oaf ter_ -:Earl. ;♦Baux; had
driven , away from the Stewart
farm,.
.'When he found the wrecl
' ed oar at Saratoga dill, a little
more than -.a . mile . west of the
Stewart farni.•toward Dungannon,.
Millis testified, Baux was,; : not
there,
"h looked- the car over. ,and."hol
lered for Earl", he testified: Mills
'said that although there had been'
.one or. two full bottles,' of whiskey
under the front seat ,when they
arrived at the- -Stewart
there Was: rio whiskey' in the car ■ ,.
-when-Mills- searched it—at ;the ■
scene of the ,accident...., ` 111
Insurance Angle ■
Mills told .the.. coroner's jury
that the car,. wrecked by Baum on ■
August 24=was the• third -car Mills
had • had :wrecked in 1949' while ■
other_:-peo.ple weredr-iving them.- -•
After the, first two smash-ups, he ■
said, his • autdniobile : insurance. •11 •
had been endorsed . to: make it.
invalid -if any other persondrove
the car ,'For that reason,. he said,: A
he Wanted, to concealthe'fact that I o •
any other. person had been With j'■
hi.in. He subsequently reported to
'the, insurance company, he testi-
' fled,' that : he had been driving
the -car himself at the .time'of the
accidei t on' August 24. '
• A suitcase belonging. •to Baux,
`which was in the wrecked car, he
said;he:left, at the,, Gordan; Stew-
art home. 'When he gave the, suit_.
case into Mrs. Stewart's keeping,
he. testified, ``I told her to keep
it there and not to say: anything
about it" ,
Mrs. Stewart testified that ,she.
did not. tell her husband •.about
,Baux,'.Lor about:the .presence of
Baux' • suitcase in •the Stewart
home until after;..the 'finding of.
.Baux; body in, the • Saratoga
Swamp. '
Tell of Finding,,13ody '
The story of the finding of the
)body was related in evidence by
William H. Tigert,'R, 3, Goderich,
and Ray Barker,, Goderich,. who
made the' discovery on .October 8
while they were hunting in the
Saratoga swamp.
William Tigert testified 'that his.
attention Was first' drawn .by . the
odor of decomposing matter..
When he searched for the 'source;,
Of the . odor, he found the body
about 40 feet from a cattle ,trail
along.;which he had been walking.
At the time, abotut 1.45 p.m., he
testified, he' and ' n"'1rker
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bush, work because Barker was: One. at identified .photographs Made by
derch at 300 • p himself in the Saratoga swamp o
m..
Four days later, on Wednesday, Oetob' es 8th.. The . photographs
October •12 William Tigert testi- showed the' '.oaition; of the body
fled, Mr..'and 2rs, Gordon Ste -of Earl ' C'. Baux, as it was: 'whe
wart, who live a Iittle more than first found in the swamp -1. Points
a mile from the plat
bo a where the' illustrated by, . the photographs in-
dy • was found, asked him to eluded the absence .of 'the' heel' of
show them thespot. When he the 'left shoe; the detachment of
went with, Mr; and Mrs. Stewart the head from the' . body; the,
to the place where the body had presence of the lower jaw and
(been, Tigert; testified, the dis-. teeth beside the left. leg, Other
covery of -the of shirt tied photographs produced . at the in-
to a tree was made almost quest were dentifxd by
Con-
ultaneously by Mrs. _,Stewart And stable -Fox as having .been, made
himself,; by himself at the scene of,. the
He did '•not think •it unreason- f finding of .the `
:bod Y,. on ;Octob,e
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able; .Tigert testified, that the. 12. They: showed the positionof
fragment of shirt was
not not- "a portionof a tan shirt,foundiced•• on ;October8; the ' day 'knotted to a treebranch about
body was. discovered. <.:. seeenr'feet above: the-ground;',and
Identification of. ..',the 4b,c d y. near'. the lace where; 'the 'body
P dy„.
..found in -the ,Sarato •a::swa . .as , . ..
,. g mp � was, found.. e.
first mlade, C'onstable'. `le`, Gardi er Laboratory: exarnnati.on . of.
testified, iby army '' discharge specimens of. earth : and 'faecal!
papers, 1949 • chaulfer's license,; Matter, ' taken from the place
and unemployment , insurance Where the Baux body 'was found,
card, .011 in the name of Earl .C. yielded no. 'positive information,
Baux, Tara,, which were found on. Inspector R. L. Taylor, of Crim
the body, inal Investigation: Branch,:, testi
' Further searching of the area, fied. So initioh ,time had elapsed
Constable Gardiner testified, ret.between -death, and the taking of.
suited in the discovery of a hand_ . samples, that laboratory analysis
kerchief,' 'about `three feet from yielded•. uncertain results; .he•said..
the base . of• the tree' on ' which Blood ' on .Shirt :
the shirt • fragment 'had earlier • It was determined,. he said, only
been °discovered : that the ,;ear'th under the body'Constable •Gar diner :six feet ..con tamed.�. faecal matter � t h a t
one inch, in height, testified that could have been human, 'but
he could .have tied the shirt: frag- might have : been from' ' some
anent -to -the -branch- on- which, itflesh-eating animal. ;There were
was,found,•while standing on the human blood'=stains, he testified,
ground,, himself: , Evidence Was on the fragment of the ` shirt:
producedat the inquest that Earl found tied' to :,a. tree, and on the.
C. Baux was five feet five and a handkerchief found: near the
half inches' tall,: • .body.....
Constable Fred , Fox, :0.P P:,:' '.• In his ' opinion, the inspector
said the; body• was not
, in ,the,
sort of place where a bodywould
have been deliberately hidden. If:
• it had been intended to' hide the
ody, he said, it would have been
ifficult to. find a 'less suitable
spot in the - Saratoga swamp. ,, •
In view. of all the facts pry
'dUced byolive investigation, Iii-.
Spector Taylor testified, . it seem-
ed ,bible that Earl Baux had
received internal. injuries in the,
automobile accident, and that be.
fore. he .died. of diose injuries,
he diad tied his . shirt to a tree
in • the hope Qt.:attracting atter?” •.
tion, or ..of summoning: kelp for : ,.
Which he Was too weak to call.
Should',Caution Children ; "
:A' window in ,a village resi-
dence .Was roken • last
;broken; last week'
youngsters 'throwing sno'wballS''at-
the .building . Parents , should •
caution their children against
this, , for if the practise persists,
some official action will be nec-
essary. '
:NOW IS';Tit-^IE 'TIME
Tb Order A White.
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or next year.
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1Hurong Rd.,' Goderich, Ont
'Phone :1132 ,
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