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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1935-08-29, Page 3THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE THURSDAY, AVGUST 29tb, 1033 50 YEARS AGO August 27, 1885 Mr. John Fisher, of Mitchell wheeled to Exeter on Sabbath last. Owing to the heavy rain he was ob­ liged to go home on Monday by rail. Mr. and' Mrs. B. S. O’Neil return­ ed home from their lake tour last Saturday. They report having had a comfortable voyage. On Tuesday morning a pleasant company met at the residence of Dr. C. Lutz, to celebrate the wedding of Miss Susie McIntyre, of Stratford, late milliner, to Messrs. Samwell & Pickard, and Mr. Bert Grigg, travel­ ler for a finm in Montreal, former book-keeper for Messrs. Samwell & Pickard and son of Mr. Wm. Grigg of Exeter. Rev. Mr. Martin perform­ ed the ceremony. The young couple will reside in Montreal. At a recent special meeting of the Exeter School Board, Mies Helyer was relieved 'from her obligations to the Board, she haying taken a room in the Clinton public school. Miss Gregory will continue teaching until the 1st of October. At the Caledonian games held at Woodstock1 on the 19th inst., Mr. Ri­ chard, son of our worthy village clerk Mr. M. Eacrett, made himself con­ spicuous by winning numerous good prizes. Mr. Joseph Anderson, of Centralia is making an extended visit to St. Joseph’s1 Island. Mr. John Parsons has shipped im­ mense quantities of tan bark froim Centralia and Port Blake. David Meisener Not Guilty of Kidnapping Labatt Entire Plan Was Plotted Four Years Ago By a London Man, Author-Ago jLsy a juonaon -nan, Aurnor- ities Are Informed—Gerald Nich-i. .. .. , ,olson Forced At Point of Gun to * but Drive. Brewer’s Abductors From Muskoka tot Toronto to Contact This also fell through, when police stopped an employee of the Labatt Brewery, as he sought to cross into Detroit from Windsor with the $25,- 000 in his pocket. “Go back and put that money in the bank,” the man was politely told by U. S. police and immigration authorities. This same man, it is claimed will tell his story on Monday next, when MciCardell appears in police court here for sentence. BREAKS BOTH WRISTS Mr. Frank Harness, Fullarton, had the misfortune to fall off a load of grain and received painful injuries. He was pulling the car back when the rope broke and he fell to the floor, breaking both wrists and his nose. 25 YEARS AGO August 25, 1910 Mrs. Chris. Zuefle, who visited De­ troit last week returned Thursday morning with a fine Cadillac auto which he purchased in that city for the firm of Snell & Zuefle. Rev. .Sharp, Rev. Hobbs and Rev. Collins, are expected to. be in their respective pulpits on Sunday next. Mr. Newton Baker, of town, has sold his fine hundred 100-acre farm in the township of Stephen to Mr. C. Isaac. Mr. Fred Luxton, who has been a life long resident of Usborne has rented his fine farm in that town­ ship to his son and will move to Ex­ eter. Mrs. Wm. Penhale left Tuesday for Winnipeg to visit relatives. Mr. Shirley Bobier, of Belgrave, spent Sunday with his family here. Miss Martha Snell went to Toron­ to and Oshawa Tuesday to visit. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Verity, of Brantford, visited relatives here dur­ ing the week. Mr. W. H. Hooper left Monday for Kenora, where he will visit his bro­ ther for a time. Mrs. Jane Smith left Monday morn­ ing to visit at Mr. Jas. Russell’s at Victoria Harbour. 'Mr. and Mrs. Fred Collins, of Ohio are visiting at the home of Mr. Ed. Treble. " 15 YEARS AGO August 26, 1920 < Mr, John Hunter of town while walking through Stephen Township one day last week captured a young buzzard. Mr. Hunter had it caged and at present it is at Messrs. Jones & May’s store. Mrs. Amos has returned from Brantford where she attended the wedding her niece. Mr. Luther Bissett and family, of London, are spending a week with relatives here and at Kippen, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Chapman and little son, returned from a motor trip to Chicago and other American cities Mrs. James Sweet, who was visit­ ing relatives at Penetanguishene, Toronto and (London for ' the past three weeks returned home Friday evening. Miss Lily and Edith Rollins, of Detroit, who have been "visiting at Goderich, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Win. May for a few days. Miss Hattie Handford, who has been visiting in Winnipeg .for the past few months with her sisters, returned home Friday prior to going to Toronto. Miss Lucy Lawson, Central tele­ phone oparator left Saturday to holi­ day in Windsor and Detroit, HURON COUNTY TO SEEK LOWER FEES FOB PUPILS AT TECH SCHOOL, LONDON Members of the Huron County Council seeking a reduction in the present fees required from students attending the Technical School in London, will meet the Board of Ed­ ucation at an early date. At the present time Huron County is paying 90 per cent, of the cost of educating students undeT its juris­ diction who are completing their ed­ ucation at the London Technical School. It is understood they wish a reduction in this figure. The announcement of the propos­ ed meeting recalls that during sev­ eral months last year county coun­ cils complained of the amount they were forced to pay for each pupil. Some withdrew their students. Others carried on. Huron County of­ fered to pay 50 per cent, of the total cost, with the parents making up the difference. This plan was veto­ ed by the Board of Education, whose members claimed that a contract was necessary with the council. For “Pay-Off", According to Con­ fession. Labatt Himself Now Convinced Case of Mistaken Identity When Misen- ei- WW Named at Trial. (By J. A. Pethick' in the London Free Press) For the first time, the inside story of the kidnapping of John Labatt, London Brewer, on August 14, last year, was revealed to The Free Press last night and disclosed the startl­ ing information that its ground­ work was laid four years ago and that the whole plot of snatching the brewery president and holding him for a ransom of $250,000 was plot­ ted by a London man. That much has. been revealed by Michael McCardell, whose signed confession of the whole crime is in the hands of police and, made, ac­ cording to1 his own statement, be­ cause he could not see an innocent man sentenced to the penitentiary for 15 years. That man was David Misener, con­ victed as one of the kidnappers of Labatt, but who, according to Mc- ardell’s confession, had nothing to do with the crime. In fact, Misener, a Covington, Kentucky, resident and a former well-known resident of De­ troit, had been offered a chance to take part in the snatch but refused. Amazing Story Likewise the amazing story of McCardell, born near Dublin, On­ tario, has exonerated Kingdon (Pic­ colo Pete) Murray held in the Mid­ dlesex County jail for the past sev­ en months awaiting trial on a charge of having had a part in the kidnap­ ping of the London brewer. McCar- dell’s own story, which he told for the first time in the Crown Point, Indiana jail, where Ontario officials hurried by plane on a tip furnished from the underworld, shows Murray was a victim of mistaken identity. He so resembled Gerald Nicholson, a Windsor man, also held in connection with the kidnapping that when his picture was shown crown witnesses tie was picked out as one of the men seen .in Muskoka, where Labatt was held till his release on August 17. By the story which tumbled from the lips of McCardell to the aston­ ishment of police and Ontario Crown officials, this is what happened: — Nicholson was holidaying in Mus­ koka a year ago last August at the time Labatt was “snatched” from his car on the road between London and 'Sarnia, by three men. These three, according to McCardell’s con­ fession, were himself, Albert Pegram and Russel Knowles, both yet to be apprehended. Knowles, Detroit man was picked up by the police once in connection with the kidnapping but later released. Knowles was the man who drove Labatt's car to London while Mc­ Cardell and Pegram took Labatt to the hideout cottage in the latter’s car. When the papers became fill­ ed with the story of the sensational kidnapping, Pegram “ran out” on his cronies because he feared “the law was too hot” in the argo of gangland. Knowles and Pegram had gone to Toronto to try and make contact, leaving McCardell to guard John Labatt, and it was when he found the Royal York Hotel, in To­ ronto, filled with police and news­ paper reporters that he “beat it” in his car, driving straight to Cin­ cinnati. Knowles, it is related in the confession of McCardell, took the bus back to Muskoka, where the two pondered over what they were going to do with Labatt. Was on Vacation Nicholson was there on vacation McCardell knew him, so a bargain was made whereby Nicholson was to furnish his car for a trip. When the stranger stepped into Nicholson’s car, his first words were “My God! You have got John La­ batt with you!” “Drive to. Toronto,” was the curt command Nicholson received, ac­ cording to> his story, accompanied at the same time by a menacing re­ volver. He did. Furthermore, Nicholson is report­ ed to have told the police because of his knowledge of the whole affair that on the ride back to Muskoka he feared that his companions might do away with him. Stayed One Day Back at Muskoka, McCardell and Knowles remained, one day, then the former left by train for the United States and the latter by bus. Since that day tb-v have not seen one an­ other. In the meantime, Pegram, streak­ ing through Canada, eventually landed up at the home of David “Ted” Misener, relating what had occurred. Misener, so the informa­ tion goes, ordered McCardell to keep away from his home, little dreaming that he himself would one day be convicted as one of the kid- ■ napipers of John Labatt. the authorities I that .prison, up.” He knew Less than a year later, McCardell was locked up in the jail at Crown Point, Indiana,, on another charge. The information travelled via the “grapevine route” to the under­ world haunts and shortly after po­ lice got the tip that led to the solv­ ing of the first kidnapping for ran­ som in the history of Canada. Police hurried there, taking with them John Labatt. Labatt himself McCardell, but was unable to McCardell evi­ dently knew the source from which learned he was in With him the “jig was an innocent man had been wrongly convicted, another was unjustly held, so rather than see these two men (Misener and Mur- I ray suffer for a crime in which they had. no part, he told the whole story with all its astounding details. And the hunt still goes on for Pegram and Knowles. Plead Guilty Waiving extradition McCardell was brought back to this city and) pleaded guilty to the charge .of kid-1 napping John Labatt. Since his return here Labatt has seen the prisoner at the Middlesex County jail and is now convinced that Mc­ Cardell is the man, who was his guard in 'the cottage at Muskoka. McCardell, though, he had to recall practically all of the conversation that passed between the two, all of which was so miunte and correct that it left no. doubt in the imind of the London brewer that he (McCardell) was his captor and guide during those two terrible days he was held a prisoner. It is reported that Labatt asked McCardell why he so readily confes­ sed his part in the kidnapping. “I’m doing that to save “Ted” Misener and Murray,” he is report­ ed to have replied. Incidently he was glad of one thing in connection with the whole case, and that fact is that he is a single man and has no wife and family to grieve and sorrow over his plight. Offered $10,000 It was also learned from the un­ impeachable source, which gave The Free Press the true story of the kid­ napping that Mr. Labatt had offer­ ed to pay his abductors $10,000, if they would accompany him to a bank This offer was made less than two hours after he was picked up, ac­ cording to the information, but Mc­ Cardell refused, saying that it was not enough as there were too many, ■had to-- “cut into” whatever money they got. Also, he says now, they had figured Labatt was worth a lot more than he actually possesses. He was told how, when he had agreed to let Labatt go on a promise of paying $25,000 as soon as he got home and was able to gather up this amount of money, it was arranged tor the money to be paid in Chicago. BENEFIT BY ESTATE Churches, missions and benevol­ ent societies, benefit under the will of Mrs. Eliza Jane Young, widow of Robert Young, Goderich, who died on July 2'8, leaving personal proper­ ty to the value of $8,375. The amount was made up of cash, a mortgage, notes ajid goods. The will which is dated June 9, 1934, pro­ vides bequests for a number of rela­ tives and friends and other benefic­ iaries are as follows: North Street United Church, for home missions $150^. for foreign mission, $150; Bible Society, $200; Women’s Tem­ perance Society, $200; Baptist Church, $200 and for Baptist Home and foreign missions, $200; Salva­ tion Army, $100; Mr. Warren, Tor­ onto, for Jewish missions in Toron­ to, $200; Crippled Children’s Home Toronto, $300; Goderich Lions Club for crippled children’s fund, $500; Children’s Shelter, Goderich, $200. Rev. W. T. Bunt and John Hunter are named as executors and trustees. WELSH ANTHRACITE MINES ARE BUSIER Anthracite ooal mining in Wales is looking up. Canada, along with other countries, is taking larger quantities than usual, according to the industrial Department of the Canadian National Railways. CHILD DIES OF BURNS Stratford—Harold Lewis, two and a half years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Lewis, St. Marys, died in hospit­ al Thursday, August 22nd from sev­ ere burns suffered when he played With a burning forge in his father's barn. The child -overturned the forge young woman declined, saying that, and in some manner the hot ashes and coals fell on his face and body. BRIDES SHOWERED A delightful evening was apent on the lawn at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Fitzsimmon's, Clinton, when twin showers arranged in hon­ our of Mrs. John Batkin and Mrs, Ce­ cil Griffith, both graduates of the Clinton hospital, were given. Little Betty Cooke, dressed in pink and drawing a pink wagon laden with with gifts presented same to the brides. A dainty lunch was served by the host and hostess. “Money Your Best Friend" I once had money and a friend; Of either thought I store. I lent my money to my friend And took his word therefor. I sought my money from my friend, Which I had wanted long. I lost my money and my friend; Now was that not a wrong? At last with money came my friend. Which pleased me wondrous well; I got my money, but my friend Away quite from me fell. Now had I money and a friend As I have had before I’d keep my money and my friend And play the fool no more. Marcy,Littleton, New York City KORAN IS PRINTED ON CANADIAN NEWSPRINT Canadian newsprint is put to all sorts of uses besides newspaper. Down in Netherlands, India, in addi­ tion to use by small newspapers, ewsprint sheets are used for print­ ing the Koran and certain cheap na­ tive Chinese books. About a year ago these sheets were also used for making cigarettes but this trade has since disappeared, rice papers being used. Canada captured first place last year for the supply of newsprint, followed by .Sweden, Japan, Norway Austria and Germany, according to the Industrial Department of the Canadian National Railways. The year, previous was the first in which Canadian newsprint appeared in the statistics. The bulk of the Cana­ dian newsprint in rolls and sheets comes from the West Coast; smaller parcels froim Eastern Canada. The prospects are that Canada will still further increase her sales of news­ print to Netherlands, Inida. ZURICH Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Williams had an enjoyable motor trip to Niagara Falls over the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Kalbfleisch ac­ companied by Mr. and Mrs. Louis Prang were on a motor trip recently to Northern Ontario. They also vis? ited with the latter’s sister Miss E. Truemner, Honey Harbour, Georg­ ian Bay. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Howald and child from Cleveland, Ohio were recent visitors with their aunt Mrs. Cyrus Colosky and other rela­ tives. Mrs. Barbara Gerber, of the Bron­ son Line, is quite ill following an operation in the Kitchener hospital, Mr. and Mrs. Chris. Ayotte, Bad Axe, Mich,, were week-end visitors with relatives here. A happy matrimonial event was celebrated on August 16th when at St. Peter’s Lutheran Parsonage, Zu­ rich, Rev. E. Turkheim united in wedlock Mr. Christian Bierling and Miss Thelma Vincent, both contract­ ing parties are from near Dashwood. Falling off a truck- Ernest Gaiser farmer of the Blue Water Highway, suffered a fractured leg and broken thumb. Mr. Gaiser was riding on the side of a truck when driving in loose gravel it swerved throwing him off. He was removed to Clinton Hospital. Some fellows who work for all they are worth must have plenty of time • on their hands. Playing' Safe A stern, hatchet-faced woman en­ tered the office and inquired for the head of the firm. The junior clerk informed the great man that a lady wished to see him. “Is she good-looking?” asked the boss. “Yes sir, very beautiful,” was the reply. “Show her up.” After the lady’s departure, the head remarked to the junior, “A nice judge of beauty you are.” “Well, returned the youth. “I thought it might be your wife, sir!” “So she is!” dryly replied his em­ ployer. Bowel Complaints of Children Very Often Dangerous There is no time during the year when children are not subject to some form of bowel complaint, but it is mostly during the hot summer months, or early fall, when diarrhcea, dysentery, colic, cholera morbus, cholera infantum, summer complaint or other bowel troubles manifest themselves. All mothers should use Dr. Fowler’s Extract of Wild Strawberry during these trying times. It is an old and tried remedy. It has been on the market for the past 90 years. It will not pay to experiment with some new and untried remedy. Get “Dr. Fowler’s”. (for the 6 cyl. 2-pass. 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