HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1959-03-26, Page 3Escaped Convict
Caught By Fox
Ever since women first dis-
covered that furs can be decora-
tive as well as comforting in cold
Weather, certain fur -bearing ani -
mats have become increasingly
valuable.
Like dogs, they have their day;
chinchilla or sable or silver fox
may be the fashion of the mo-
ment. Just now a very small,
semi -aquatic stoat -like creature
called a mink ls all the rage —
among those who can afford it.
All such animals, however, are
continually in demand, and in
Most of the regions where they
flourish they are carefully pre-
served in their wild state, They
may be trapped only at certain
seasons of the year,
It was in 1934 that jarneslaw-
rence Fahey, a Canadian, living
at Jasper, a town in Alberta at
the foot of the Rocky Mountains,
succumbed to temptation while
on holiday. He trapped a silver
fox out of season — presumably
• by chance, but he tried to' get
away with it. Perhaps he thought
it would be a nice gift for Mrs.
Fahey.
A game warden caught him in
the act and, the Canadian fur
industry being important and
powerful, he was treated like any
common poacher and handed over
to the police..;
He was,:larffaa, a much res-
pected man Jasper, where he
had lived for twenty years, de-
veloping a flourishing business as
a building contractor. A small
fine accordingly, soon settled the
matter.
It seems very doubtful if he
gave any thought to the possible
effect of that incident upon the
past. But the silver fox was an
instrument of fate: a relentless,
machinery had been set in mo-
tion.
Because Canada and the United
States share an immensely long
frontier, which criminals on the
run can cross with ease, the po-
lice of the two countries work in
close co-operation.
In both the fingerprint system
is far more extensively employed
than is the case in Europe. Once
Fahey was under arrest, his
fingerprints were taken as a mat-
ter of routine. They were then
sent to the International Bureau
of Identity at Ottawa.
From Ottawa, in spite' of the
trifling natureof the offence, a
copy was forwarded to the Identi-
fication Division of the F.B.I, at
Washington. At Washington more
LAST TRY — By an ironic twist,
this pretty girl stands between
a convicted killer and the elec-
tric chair. She's attorney Lois
Lanker, appointed by the Na-
tional Legal Aid Society to take
the final plea of Clevelander
Walter J. Byomin, 42, to the.U.S.
Supreme Court, Byomin has
been, sentenced to death for the
murder of a Wellington, Ohio
policeman in 1957,
machinery went ,automatically to
work, classifying and comparing
in a collection of prints ;mining
Into millions,
° The result astonished even the
hard-bolled officials of the F.B.I,
For Mr, Fahey's prints had been
on record in the United States
longbefore the F,B.I, came into
existence.
The trial went baektwenty-five
years. In May, 1909 the eastbound
Overland Mail of the Union Paci-
fic Railroad was held up and
robbed, The robbers, a gang of
five did not get away with much
money, but the Overland Mail
was a crack train, and the out-
rage caused' a sensation,
Before the creation of the F.B.I.
there was no national police sys-
tem in the country, and the State
forces varied greatly in effi-
ciency; the railway company
therefore called in Pinkerton's
Detective Agency, then at the
height of its fame,
Within a few months Pinker -
ton's operatives, working with
sheriffs and other law officers, ran
down, all five members of the
gang in three different states —
Nebraska, Colorado and Idaho.
In September, 1909, all five
were sentenced at the Omaha
District Court to life imprison-
ment in the huge penitentiary' at
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
. In April, 1910, the entire gang
broke out of prison. Their meth-
od will probably remain unique,
Seizing a small locomotive .used'
within the walls of Leavenworth,
they drove it through a pair of
steel gates and then for six miles
across country.
Soon after they were forced
to abandon it, four of the fugi-
tives were recaptured. The fifth,
a man named Fred Grigware,
got away.
And now, a quarter of a cen-
tury later, the fingerprints of the
respectable Mr. Fahey, of Jasper,
Alberta, were identified as those -
of the missing Fred Grigware.
At the request of the United
States authorities, Fahey was
taken into custody, to the aston-
ishment and dismay of all in
Jasper.
Fahey, or Grigware, it was
pointed out, had led a exemplary
life as a Canadian citizen, for
twenty years. He had done much
'good in Jasper.' He had a Cana-
clian.wife and three children who
• had never heard of the Overland
Mail. It was surely a case' for
letting bygones_be bygones.
It iipleasant to record that the
United States Attorney -General
agreed with this' view.. He felt
that "noi good purpose would be •
served" by raking up so old a.
story, and extradition proceedings
were dropped. Mr. Fahey was left ".
In peace- with_ his family.
Rats Trap Rat
All the capital cities of the
world' have an underworld. Be-
neath the streets there is an-
other city, a network oftunnels,
avenues and by -ways, forming
the sewers.
The sewers do not often come
into the news„ but some time
• ago an old man was found
trapped in a sewer under the
main square of Catania, in Sicily.
Afraid to cross the square owing
to traffic, he went underground
—and nearly died!
In 19th century, Paris the
police were loking , for a
murderer who smashed the
heads of his victims with a ham-
mer and, after robbing them,
'cut up their bodies
When his house was raided
there was no sign .of him, but
there was an open trap-door m
the basement. The gendarmes
went down, and found them-
selves in the vast sewer system
of Paris.
In the distance was the sound
of squeaky uproar, w,here squad-
rons of huge rats; disturbed by
the murderer,. voiced their pro-
test. By following this noise the
police ran their quarry down.
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EQUINE TREATMENT — Mrs. Eaton Chalkley (Susan, Hayward)
of Carrollton Ga., went all the way to'Hollywood to shoe a
horse, Tom, for a 'scene In the motion picture "Woman Obsessed."
Susan will have plenty of demand for her services among, the
horses on her 300 -acre farm in rural Georgia.
THEFARM FRONT
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Of interest to tomato growers
and home gardeners across
'Canada, is the recent announce-
' ment that several' 'new tomato
vanities developed at the Ex-
• perimental Farm, Summerland,
B.C.; are being released dor limit-
ed trial in 1959.
*
These varieties are the first
,introductions resulting from an
extensive tomato breeding pro-
gram .initiated at Summerland in
1953, as a co-operative project
in which Mr. L. G. Denby has
directed the breeding work and
Mr. G. E. Woolliams has con-
ducted the disease screening
work.
* 4, •
Through their combined efforts,
these new tomato verities have
th' unique characteristic of being
the first tomatoes developed in
• Canadia which are completely
. resistant to existing strains of
Verticillium wilt.
*
In a recent interview, Mr.
• Denby stated that the new vari-
eties have evidenced considerable
promise under Okanagan condi-
tions. Bred primarily for Verti-
cillium resistance, earliness, and
fine fruit quality, the plants are
of the self -pruning or bush type,
and are not designed for stak-
ing. In recent trials at Summer -
land, they successfully met every
expectation; however, Mr. Denby
hastened to point out that this
is no reason to expect that they
will prove to be outstanding un-
der very different climatic and
soil conditions in other parts of
Canada.
Several acres of the new intro-
ductions will be planted commer-
cially in 1959, and grower re-
action will determine the steps
to be taken in the final selection
before the varieties are named,
* *
Major changes in Record 'of
Performance for purebred swine
to make the tests more useful
have been announced by officials
" of 'the Canada Department of
Agriculture.
Headlining the changes is the
removal of qualifying standards
• for. sows and boars, which were
based on carcass desirability only.
Reducing the emphasis on carcass
score should result in more at-
tention to the economically-
impertant factors of feed utiliza-
tion and age for weight,
The term "qualified for ad-
vanced registry" will be discon-
tinued. In its place, an average
will be provided for each sta-
tion Or province for: (1) Age for
weight; (2) Carcass score; and
(3) Feed utilization.
Deciding the merits of a
breeding pig will be left to the
• judgment of the individual far-
mer or breeder. The department
will limit its part to providing
the facts brought out by the tests.
4. *
Changes in the system of car-
cass scoring are designed to place
still greater emhpasis on desir-
able leanness. To do this, cer-
tain factors, such as type and
balance, will be dropped and
points for area of loin and low
back fat will be increased.
* *
In a move to get a more direct
representation of breeders on its
advisory board, the department
is asking each test station com-
mittee to appoint a breeder rep-
resentative to the board. It will
,:also include representatives of
national breeder organizations.
The changes will be applied to
animals tested with groups far-
rowed after Jan. 1 this year.
'Up to 110,000,000 pounds of
• Canadian dry skimmed milk will
be Used this year. D, 33,Good-
willie, dairy merchandising
pert, has predicted,
He told the Canadian Milk
Powder Manufacturers' Associa-
tion in Toronto t hat 100,090,00
pounds were used in 1058 —
ten per cent more than ever be-
fore.
At the same time, stocks at
the first of this year were the
highest on record.
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He noted that 1958 production
was a record 186,000,000 pounds,
four times greater than just seven
years ago, due to the growth of
whole milk creameries'price, and
increased milk production,
* * *
Because of new plants and
capacity or over capacity opera-
tions, quality last year was the
poorest since 1951.
However, experts of almost
50,000,000 pounds were highest
on record, World prices today
are from eight to 10 cents —
somewhat higher than a year ago,
*
The Agricultural Stabilization
Board bought about 100,000„000
pounds of powdered milk in 1958,
about 75 per cent beng spray
process. All of it came from On-
tario and Quebec, The Board is
still being offered several cars a
week, but purchases are current-
ly running about half a year ago
at this time.
Careful Of Those
Hitch -Hikers!
There are still vast areas of
America and seasons of the year
in still others where one does
' not pass up a roadside figure
gesturing his request to be
picked up by, the oncoming mo—
torist. His is just as likely to be
a real need as simply a money-
saving hope.
And there are innocent
"thumbers" too: the' soldier or
sailor or the college boy headed
home for a brief "liberty" or a
week -end holiday from classes.
But the very definitely non-
• innocent haybeen spoiling it
for the innocent. And more and
;more the motorist 'Is having to
consider the risks -- to balance
,them against his patural im-
pulse .to be generous, perhaps
his desire for company if on a
long drive alarm.
For, says the American Auto -
,:mobile' Association, "two out ot
five thumbs raised to beg a
ride have their prints on file
with the police." And it has
• gone on record nationally' to
outlaw the • practice. Further-
more,the AAA warns, in many
states' a hitchhiker becomes le-
gally a guest rider who can sue
his host for damages should he
be injured'In an accident.
"Thumbing" is already illegal
in 22 states; it is ag'ainst mili-
tary reglations for servicemen,
and it' is forbidden on a number
'of turnpikes.
Here is another instance where
burgeoning populations and the
greater mobility of people makes
it likely that those one encoun-
ters a r e strangers — unless
proved otherwise. It doesn't
mean that helpfulness and
neighborliness must disappear.
It does mean that, more and
more, they must be partners to
• discretion — An Editorial in
• The Christian Science Monitor."
"Well, how did you like my
speech?" asked the after -lunch
orator. "The end was really
good, wasn't it?"
"Oh, yes, very good; but it
came too late."
UNDAY SC11001
LESSON
By Rev It B. Warren, B.A., ILO
Forgiveness Through the Gress
Luke 23; 18-49
IBIemory Selection: Father, for-
give thetn; for they know not
what they do. Luke 23:34,
Of the seven sayings of Jesus
on the cross, the first two are
words of forgiveness. For those
who crucified Him, He prayed.
"Father, forgive them: for they
know not what they do." To the
plea of the penitent thief who
hist a little time before had railed
on him, He said, "Today thou
shalt be with me in paradise.
In New Zealand while the
Lord's Supper was being cele-
brated, a native arose and return-
ed to his seat, but later knelt
again. He siid, "When 1 went to
the table 1 did not know whom
I would have to kneel beside,
when suddenly I saw by my side
the man who, a few years before,
slew my father and drank his
blood, and whom I then devoted
to death,
"Imagine what I felt when I
suddenly found him by my side,
A rush of feeling came over me
that I could not endure, and 1
went back to my seat. But when
I got there I saw the upper
sanctuary and the Great Supper,
and 1 thought I heard a voice say-
ing, 'By this shall men know that
ye are my disciples, if ye love one
another.' That overpowered me. 1
at once seemed to see another
vision of a cross with a man nail-
ed to it, and I heard Him say:
'Father forgive them for they
know not what they do.' Then 1
returned to the altar."
Jesus said, "If ye forgive not
men their trespasses, neither will
your Father forgive your tres-
passes." Matthew 6:15. Yet how
many there are in this so-called
Christian land who do not for-
give. It may be within the im-
mediate family or the larger
family of the community. This
one thing is clear: in the heart
where there is not a .complete
forgiveness toward all, there is
not forgiveness from God. No
church ordinance or any degree
of works in the church will bring
God's forgiveness until we are
.ready, by the grace of God, to
forgive everyone.
When God's love fills us, it
overflows through us to our fel-
low men.
"Glove of God, how rich
and pure,
How measureless and strong;
It shall forevermore endure,
The saints' and angels' song."
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est substances known to man,
and particularly hard to got
back.
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ISSUE 12 — 1959
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JET AGE COMES •TO SARDINIA — Carrying water from the well in the centuries-old manner
of her ancestors, an elderly woman of Sardinia watches Canadian jets take off near her
home on the Mediterranean island The aircraft are at the RCAF's Air Weapons Unit in Deci-
momannu, where they come from bases in continental Europe to practice gunnery and rocket
firing over a NATO range on Sardinia,
kixclusive National Defence Photo