Practically Perfect (39 page)

1: They Got Away With It Before

Fred Stawycznyk abd Pauline Yatchuk:
Babies in Boxes
Winnipeg Free Press
(30 November 1932) 1; (1 December 1932) 10; (10 December 1932) 1; (4 April 1933) 5; (5 April 1933) 3; (6 April 1933) 6; (7 April 1933) 3; (8 April 1933) 1; (11 July 1933) 6; (13 July 1933) 1.

William Bahrey:
The Brothers in the Haystacks Anderson, Frank W. “The William Bahrey Murders” in
Outlaws of Saskatchewan: Strange Tales of Crime and Criminals from Our Storied Past
(Humbolt, Saskatchewan: Gopher Books, 1999) 65.

McGill, Dr. Frances. “She Solved Murders in the Morgue” in
Ottawa Citizen
(22 October 1955).

Regina
Leader-Post
(12 May 1933) 13; (3 October 1933) 5.

Montreal Gazette
(24 February 1934) 4.

Saskatoon Star-Phoenix
(21 April 1933) 3; (27 April 1933) 3; (10 May 1933) 3; (11 May 1933) 3; (12 May 1933) 3; (4 October 1933) 3; (5 October 1933) 3; (7 October 1933) 3; (22 February 1934) 3; (23 February 1934) 7; (4 December 1982) C7.

Vancouver Sun
(10 May 1933) 11.

William Larocque and Emmanuel Lavictoire:
Murders for Insurance Windsor
Border Cities Star
(26 September 1934) 10.

Calgary Herald
(6 April 1932) 18.

Globe and Mail
(13 April 1932) 2.

Montreal Gazette
(16 December 1932) 7; (15 March 1933) 1.

Ottawa Citizen
(19 March 1932) 9; (22 March 1932) 1; (29 March 1932) 11; (12 April 1932) 8; (26 April 1932) 20; (27 April 1932) 9; (9 December 1932) 20; (12 December 1932) 13; (14 December 1932) 15; (15 December 1932) 1; (16 December 1932) 28; (17 December 1932) 5; (30 December 1932) 1; (15 March 1933) 3; (20 July 1933) 3.

Vancouver Sun
(21 March 1932) 16.

2: Murdering Neighbours

Michael Farrell:
Fifteen Years between Murders Conway Murder:
www.pbalkcom.com/valcartier/Biographies/conway_murder.htm
.

Montreal Gazette
(27 August 1878) 3; (28 August 1878) 3; (29 August 1878) 3; (4 November 1878) 3; (5 November 1878) 3; (6 November 1878) 3; (11 January 1879) 2.

Lawrence, Kansas,
Western Home Journal
(16 January 1879) 2.

Emerson Shelley:
A Neighbour Kills Again
British Canadian
(18 August 1909) 1; (25 August 1909) 1; (19 May 1915) 1, 7; (26 May 1915) 7; (9 June 1915) 1; (16 June 1915) 1; (29 September 1915) 1; (22 December 1915) 7.

Globe
(14 May 1915) 11; (15 May 1915) 5; (20 May 1915) 2; (7 June 1915) 5; (14 June 1915) 3; (22 September 1915) 3; (23 September 1915) 9; (24 September 1915) 1; (5 November 1915) 10; (17 November 1915) 14.

Larry Harold Hansen:
Killed by His Best Friend
Brandon Sun
(22 November 1976) 1; (7 June 1977) 1; (17 April 1998) 1; (18 April 1998) 1; (20 April 1998) 1; (22 April 1998) 1; (23 April 1998) 3; (21 September 1998) 1.

Winnipeg Free Press
(23 November 1976) 8; (11 June 1998) A7; (13 June 1998) A5; (19 September 1998) A3.

3: Reprieved to Kill Again

Garry Richard Barrett:
One Second Chance Too Many
www.telusplanet.net/dgarneau/alberta11.html
.

Anderson, Frank. “Death of a Gloomy Little Man” in
Crimes Across the Nation
(Saskatoon: Frontier Publishing) 62.

Edmonton Journal
(17 May 1909) 7.

Globe and Mail
(3 June 1908) 5.

Manitoba Free Press
(16 April 1909) 1.

New York Times
(17 April 1909). Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc.,
http://canada.odmp.org/officer/31-deputy-warden-richard-h.-stedman
.

Pruden, Jana, “Crime Reporter” in
Edmonton Journal,
www.edmontonjournal.com/news/hanged/upcoming/barrett.html
.

Warden of Alberta Penitentiary:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_McCauley_(politician)
.

John Boyko:
Marry Me or Die Fred Rose,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Rose_(politician)
.

Montreal Gazette
(29 November 1946) 13; (30 November 1946) 3; (7 December 1946) 15; (25 February 1947) 3; (26 February 1947) 11; (25 November 1948) 11; (26 November 1948) 3; (27 November 1948) 3; (4 December 1948) 7; (22 October 1960) 37.

Albert Victor Westgate:
Fascination Leads to Murder
Brookside Cemetery: A Celebration of Life
, v. 1 (Winnipeg: E.R. Publishing) 55.

Cook v. Westgate (1944) Man. R. 227 (C.A.).

Globe and Mail
(13 December 1928) 21.

John Burchill, “Wordless Westgate,”
http://winnipeg.ca/police/History/story9.stm
.

Morriss, W.E.,
Watch the Rope
(Winnipeg: Watson Dwyer, 1996).

4: Loved Ones Tell All

Oliver Prévost:
The Piggery Murders Fort William
Daily Journal
(11 February 1897) 3; (16 February 1897) 1; (24 February 1897) 3; (27 February 1897) 3; (7 December 1897) 1; (8 December 1898) 1; (15 March 1899) 1; (16 March 1899) 3; (17 March 1899) 1, 4.

Daily Mail and Empire
(8 December 1898) 2.

Globe
(12 February 1897) 1; (27 February 1897) 17; (25 November 1897) 1; (27 November 1897) 23; (7 December 1897) 2; (9 December 1897) 1; (6 December 1898) 2; (7 December 1898) 9; (8 December 1898) 1; (16 March 1899) 2.

John “Cobalt” Ivanchuk:
Too Much to Say Windsor
Border Cities Star
(17 November 1928) 13.

Fort William
Daily Times-Journal
(25 August 1919) 1.

Edmonton Journal
(3 May 1928) 19.

Kenora Daily Miner and News
(27 August 1919) 1; (30 August 1919) 1; (3 September 1919) 1.

Montreal Gazette
(18 October 1926) 15.

Cobalt, Ontario
Northern News
(18 April 1929) 1; (25 July 1929) 13.

Cochrane
Northland Post
(22 October 1926) 1; (29 October 1926) 8; (5 November 1926) 1; (12 April 1929) 1; (19 July 1929) 1.

Sudbury Star
(20 July 1929) 1.

Stanley Donald McLaren:
A Fatal Mistake
Calgary Herald
(25 September 1945) 1; (26 September 1945) 1; (27 September 1945) 1; (28 September 1945) 1; (30 August 1948) 1; (31 August 1948) 1; (2 October 1948) 1; (13 October 1948) 1; (14 October 1948) 1; (15 November 1948) 1; (16 November 1948) 1; (17 November 1948) 1; (18 November 1948) 1; (19 November 1948) 1; (20 November 1948) 1; (22 November 1948) 1; (28 March 1949) 1; (29 March 1949) 1; (30 March 1949) 1.

Saskatoon Star-Phoenix
(26 March 1949) 4.

Arthur Kendall:
Killing in Front of Family
Globe and Mail
(24 October 1961) 12; (25 October 1961) 3; (26 October 1961) 9; (27 October 1961) 31; (28 October 1961) 2; (23 January 1962) 5; (6 February 1962) 4; (15 March 1962) 8; (16 March 1962) 41; (27 March 1962) 8; (5 April 1962) 25; (11 April 1962) 3; (13 April 1962) 23; (16 April 1962) 6.

Regina
Leader-Post
(28 January 1961) 29; (27 October 1961) 32.

Saskatoon Star-Phoenix
(4 March 1961) 6.

Windsor Star
(27 January 1961) 1; (25 February 1971) 34; (26 February 1971) 6.

5: Suspicions Linger

William Jasper Collins:
Too Much Money
Boston Transcript
(4 March 1914) 20.

Calgary Herald
(28 August 1913) 1; (11 November 1913) 1; (22 November 1913) 13; (25 November 1913) 7; (26 November 1913) 10; (28 November 1913) 1; (29 November 1913) 1; (19 January 1914) 1; (10 February 1914) 1; (17 February 1914) 15; (18 February 1914) 1, 6.

Nelson, New Zealand,
Colonist
(20 February 1914) 5.

Quebec
Daily Telegraph
(24 February 1914) 5.

St. Joseph, Missouri,
News-Press
(25 November 1913) 1.

Pfeifer, Jeffrey and, Ken Leyton-Brown.
Death By Rope
, v. 1:
1867–1923
(Centax Books: Regina, 2007) 172.

Saskatoon Star-Phoenix
(19 February 1914) 6.

Toronto Sunday World
(15 February 1914) 12.

Marie Beaulne and Philibert Lefebvre:
Poison Does the Trick Anderson, Frank W. “Marie Viau: Too Much Haste” in
A Dance with Death: Canadian Women on the Gallows, 1754–1954
(Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1996) 20.

Windsor
Border Cities Star
(1 August 1929) 12; (24 August 1929) 3.

Salt Lake City, Utah,
Desert News
(26 August 1929) 4.

St. Petersburg, Florida,
Evening Independent
(23 August 1929) 1.

Sarasota, Florida,
Herald-Tribune
(23 August 1929) 1.

Miami News
(23 August 1929) 1.

Montreal Gazette
(13 June 1929) 6; (21 August 1929) 3; (23 August 1929) 13; (24 August 1929) 3.

Pittsburg Press
(27 June 1929) 11; (22 August 1929) 1.

Reading Eagle
(24 August 1929) 1.

Vancouver Sun
(20 August 1929) 4; (23 August 1929) 1.

Marie Louise Cloutier and Achille Grondin:
Married Too Soon Anderson, Frank W. “Marie Cloutier: A First-Class Embalming” in
A Dance with Death: Canadian Women on the Gallows, 1754–1954
(Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1996) 28.

Lewiston Evening Journal
(10 February 1940) 2.

Montreal Gazette
(30 November 1937) 10; (4 December 1937) 3; (21 September 1938) 11; (22 September 1938) 11; (23 September 1938) 13; (24 September 1938) 3; (27 September 1938) 4; (28 September 1938) 21; (29 September 1938) 11; (30 September 1938) 21; (1 October 1938) 3; (3 October 1938) 15; (4 October 1938) 11; (5 October 1938) 21; (6 October 1938) 10; (7 October 1938) 3; (8 October 1938) 21; (10 October 1938) 3; (3 November 1938) 11; (4 November 1938) 9; (8 November 1938) 11; (9 November 1938) 3; (10 November 1938) 14; (11 November 1938) 2; (15 November 1938) 11; (18 November 1938) 2; (19 November 1938) 9; (22 November 1938) 4; (23 November 1938) 4; (25 November 1938) 2; (26 November 1938) 23; (28 November 1938) 3; (30 November 1938) 4; (20 February 1939) 3; (3 June 1939) 4; (14 June 1939) 3; (23 February 1940) 10; (24 February 1940) 13.

Vancouver Sun
(23 February 1940) 4.

Windsor Daily Star
(31 October 1939) 14.

6: The Two Rolands

Roland Asselin:
Fifty-Five Weeks between Murders
Edmonton Journal
(5 January 1948) 16.

Montreal Gazette
(1 January 1948) 3; (5 January 1948) 11; (9 June 1948) 3; (10 June 1948) 11; (11 June 1948) 3; (15 June 1948) 13; (16 June 1948) 3; (10 June 1949) 3.

Ottawa Citizen
(31 December 1947) 10.

“Ranger, Marie Blanche Alice,” Quebec, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), various records.

Roland Genest:
He Never Murdered a Woman He Didn’t Love
Montreal Gazette
(30 May 1951) 2; (31 May 1951) 3; (1 June 1951) 3; (20 February 1953) 1; (21 February 1953) 17; (23 February 1953) 3; (24 February 1953) 1; (25 February 1953) 3; (26 February 1953) 1; (27 February 1953) 17; (28 February 1953) 17; (20 May 1953) 12; (21 May 1953) 23; (22 May 1953) 1; (26 September 1981) 4.

Ottawa Citizen
(27 August 1953) 3.

7: Confessions and Presumptions of Guilt

Poral Stefoff:
Last Minute Confession of a Serial Killer
Globe
(23 April 1909) 12; (8 May 1909) 23; (19 October 1909) 14; (25 October 1909) 14; (27 October 1909) 14; (28 October 1909) 7; (30 October 1909) 28; (4 November 1909) 14; (24 December 1909) 5; (25 December 1909) 6.

Montreal Gazette
(27 April 1909) 5.

Warsaw
Daily Union
(24 December 1909) 1.