Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 24, 1937, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press wednesday March 24, 1937. Page thirteen. Sad easter a or family Long Arm of coincidence bitter finale to mystery stretched Byj writers of fiction the Long Arm of coincidence Cut such a wide Swath As it did monday to provide a finale to the mystery of Julia Johnson s disappearance. T i n be a sad easter for her family but it will ease the knot j tortured conjecture that has been twisting for years in the Iid of a Little Mother she May feel even glad that some mys Force moved with dramatic suddenness to unearth the of her Darling in its boiler Tomb. Old factory almost in of he former Johnson Home not been sold to a machinery j to Date. J company had this was done and. A discarded rid of an in i toilet was thus left almost uncluttered the noticed to provide a Tomb in the tragic future for a laughing Little i girl with a Happy disposition tenants came and tenants went of w6nder- Anci the boiler stood the hands Jef Johnson a to her i and in general particular might Julia was decay making it More and More ing what Date. Was doing. Came i Iii Erwis. Mrs. C. E. Was widow. Of her husband. The months what 187 us Wieland had been to a be a off and on for Many years. Stood vacant one Spring Day in police Julia Johnson disappeared.1 pungent odor j building stood six work of reducing Andre Blumel. Chief Secretary Premier Leon Blum of France who was wounded last. Tuesday dui ing furious rioting in the workers stronghold at Clichy just outside , when communist masses fought their rightist Politi the building Cal Oes government guards and family of of paper head of warehouse amazed by finding of body remains the body of the child went on. Then came i giving the. Matter varnish was thought to do of. J and its pungent odor hid any Evi the Long Arm p c coincidence thus Dence of the Little body. Iegan to stretch. That firm stayed 18 months then it was in 1903 that the building came a soft drink Supply House a Cienci to House a Cigar factory. Then the old building stood vacant h it remained for Many again for two years and was opened Day it ivs decided that the by. A firm. Aling equipment be brought up then Muzejen and Blythe iria cd insists decided it might do for them and they approached mrs. Lee. She did not accept a Purchase offer for a time but the Sale was finally completed and Early in 1937 the firm in. Utra How to get primitive health j the work of converting the build with Energy. No j ing toys new use was carried on Luar Tali Timon inuit. Terji. l t. Lew tout of red each Day tired mornings. Hiding in the basement shadows was Oulu Una i the boiler and it was taking up up Peppy and full of i needed space. Ass ssh machinists the firm did not carry the boiler out but decided to dismantle it. Wilfred Adams got the Job. Tirve action j thoughts of murder far from his mind he unbolted the solid end. There a pitiful ghastly Stan regained full health and Energy 2 a tilt a Teltea. The preach Itlen of doctor. Fruit a Tara and Herb and met ref rial organs cleanse the Ellmin ipod on. Tend to set la the Wood of i was the body of Julia Johnson. . Unique tonic a elect. Erlna i thus a the most unit Star for Emir where. Cot of a mystery solved. " so your own Protection rec . Ina ton j this is the i life hat a ook it. I of Bey of boy Ever i won that free press Puzzle "3rd contest life has been Rosy. Ife Mamie no boarding House no rothing but Leisure. I guess it is j about time i started on another i ran test and then i la be Able of . Just think i la be Able j Uncle Willie is right the free press Puzzle word contest is the i with 35 dollars As first i prize and a second prize of 1 5 Roll sri it is really Worth while to Fenter. Full details in the Cussi tied Section. On remember the Winnipeg foundation a Community Trust fund for the needy. Johnsons thankful body found Mother sees answer to her prayer in finding of1 Julia s remains j j i i i god is Good. He has Given me the about my the polish Mother of Julia Johnson said firmly tuesday morning to a visitor As she talked of the tragic mystery of her Little girl s disappearance nine years ago. I prayed god to Tell me if my Little Julia is got the Job. Dead or she said. It was somebody she knew and somebody who knew All about that old vacant building and How to get into continued mrs. Johnson. Vainly she tried to control her grief As she comforted her own i mind and those about her with the Assurance that it is so much better to know than to think of Julia unhappy somewhere with people who were not Good to her. Yes she knew she should be thankful. Julia s suf Fering was Brief she thought she link discovery of Julia Johnson s body in the disused Marine boiler in the basement of the two Story Brick building at 187 Sutherland Avenue monday served Only to deepen the mystery of her strange disappearance for members of at least one Winnipeg family. They Are the family of Walter h. Hamilton 375 Beaverbrook Street. In 1928 or Hamilton was manager of the nov bottling works then located at 187 Suther land Avenue. Or. Hamilton is at. Present absent from the City on a business trip. Mrs. Hamilton and her ton however recalled vividly the Days. When Little Julia had come Over to the Plant to play. Often she was accompanied by her with whom Jimarie As a Small boy spent Many Happy hours in play. How Julia could Ever have got Down to the basement and into old boiler is an unfathomable mystery to both mrs. Hamilton and Jimmie. Expressing her profound sorrow ills. Hamilton made inquiry bout mrs. Johnson s whereabouts and if she had Learned magic discovery. Split in labor body is held As Blessing in disguise by Mcnab i f said of since it had rid the movement of Texas. Those poor mothers an disrupting elements the. Recent split in the All Canadian Congress of labor has proved a Blessing in Dis Guise j. S. Mcnab told the Winni Peg District Council ., in a meeting held in the Cadorin build ing monday night. Or. Mcnab was a Delegate from division 67 of the . Convention held in Toronto recently. The convention was the largest most representative in the history of the. Con Gress which was now stronger in membership than Ever before. A Resolution was passed by the Council taking Strong exception to alleged derogatory remarks made against the negroes in a broadcast from Vancouver 24. And the Secretary was take the matter up with the proper authorities. H. A. Chappell reported on the Brief submitted to the legislature and t. Simpson gave a report for the organization committee. It was decided to admit ladies auxiliaries As affiliates of the Council. J. A Handleton spoke of the petition take the out of circulated by the greater Winnipeg youth Council. Members of the Young men s Sec Tion. Winnipeg Board of visited Oie Weston shops of the Canadian Pacific railway tuesday afternoon. The group met at the Board of Trade offices at 1.2.40 o clock and visited the locomotive department the Blacksmith shop the foundry and the. Car depart ment. Whit wet t k o Emu wines arc frequently i a Maury is a Kurt it lord banquets and functions in Iszu land ads court or because of their outstand we birr of ing excellence. Yet you can these Choice austra Jan v7incs without making a heavy ii on your pocket. Indeed they Cost much less than foreign port Quality because the enjoy a Tariff preference when catering. U 444 Rich White and Emu 999 cd Tawny arc the " biggest Sellers Felon get australian wines in England and and appreciated throughout by appointment 26-ipw bottle Emu 444 kick White Emu 999 full storm Fyk Emu. Wine co. Limited _ Abs aide Anu London made by the King s Proctor for instructions on procedure in the pending divorce being sought by mrs. Wallis Simpson. His dismissal of an intervention request cleared the Way for mrs. Simpson s final decree which will enable her to wed the Duke of Windsor. More about child murdered continued from. Pave one end of a or possibly a Long pipe against her stomach and shoved her to the far end of the rusted Metal boiler that was to be her Tomb for nine years. That much at least was revealed by the Bent position of the Skeleton All that remained of the Little girl s body except for some hair. Nor did Julia Johnson perish from a blow Over the was Dis closed for examination of her Skull showed no sign of a fracture. Whether she died by strangulation at the hands of her maniacal killer May be discovered when or. H. M Speechly provincial Coroner Vii have the Bones of the neck Anc vertebrae a Rayed. He did not examine the neck Bones for possible fractures. Tuesday morning for Fucai they would be broken in the pro Cess. Red Collar showed in front where the p0sslbijjty that she May have the Tan ribbed sweater opened at been Crimea ii assaulted before be the Throat. And the she wanted to know. Julia was wearing Jow shoes one of which had just been half Soled. The Mother was told once More. The description of the shoes tallied the pair found on the Small body. The left shoe had a new half sole on it. There was the matter of Stock Ings too Julia had worn two pairs of Tan stockings on that last after noon when she sallied put with her piece of bread and to the Corner just to watch the Gas the two pairs of stockings were there the one pair quite worn which again tallied with what the child had worn. The Little red sponge Ball with the piece out the Side found clasped in a Small dead hand had already been removed with the Tan Toque to the police station for identification. That Ball had been the object of intense interest at the time of Julia s disappearance. And for months afterwards balls of All descriptions which had washed up out of the River or were picked up in the Vicinity of Austin and Suther land were handed in by citizens for purposes of identification. But like the Little maid herself her Ball re Home on St. Mary s Road monday Maine a mystery. Detectives probed old Bouer in 1928 did not see body Winnipeg detectives in their Early search for Little Julia John son prowled the basement of the deserted warehouse at 187 Suther land Avenue on no less than three or four occasions. This was revealed by inspector of detectives James Melville tues Day morning in telling of the Long drawn out Hunt that was staged for tie missing child i our practically every member of the department worked on the strange Case at one time or threw the beams of their flashlights into the old rusted boiler but the position of the tiny body crouched As it was in the combustion Section of the tank made it absolutely impossible to find without the boiler being taken he said. Fate which played such an Active part All through the Case further complicated matters by decreeing that the premises remain vacant from March 31, 1928 nearly1 a month before Little Julia vanished april oct. 1, when of All establishments a furniture com Pany took Over the tenancy. This firm known As the Western Wicker works was operated by three partners Frank Skolny Mike Zube and Frank Yanish. Despite the fact that these men often worked in the basement the constant smell of boiling Wicker which filled the entire building made it impossible for them to notice any of a body in a state of disintegration. Police also explain that any odor which might arise from a body As Small As that of Little Julia would Likely have left before the new tenants moved in nearly six months after the Corpse had been stuffed into its Iron Louiia grave. Theory boiler in which her body was found were taken to head quarters following the inquest and have been carefully stored in the vault. It is barely possible that some Tell tale clue some whip of hair or a torn jagged Finger be found clinging to this clothing and every Inch of it will be gone Over with a powerful Microscope. Detective Hamilton who with detective Nicholson is working strenuously on the Case was carrying a strange Little wooden Box around tuesday morning. Enquiries revealed it to contain a Model of the Poiler in which the body was Dis covered. Science May yet bring the killer of Little Julia to remarked detective in commenting on this Little Box. The finding of the body will not mean that rewards totalling offered several years ago for info to her discovery will be paid. These explained chief of police George Smith would have been paid had the missing girl been located alive but now that she has been found dead they May be renewed for information leading in the arrest and conviction of her Slayer. But nobody is worrying Boul declared the chief. What everybody Hopes is that should postmortem examination and a Cor Oner s inquest establish the fact that she has been slain the police will be Able the brutal tuesday morning the chief con of the French social party warned the chamber that Hitler never will tolerate communism in quickly the Premier interrupted that has nothing with it. We will Nat allow fort Iii pressure in this a collection of Oil paintings and water colors will be Jbrown. Free Good Friday Between t . And 10 p.m., in the Hall of Trie St. James Branch of the Canadian legion b.e.s.l., 1751 Portage Avenue it was announced at the clubroom monday night. Your con u it in t get Ting tin Juwil i to is. Nimir Lar Ngoh. Mineral a Cuncins stable s desk was piled High with re l.p.rl.4 by to Tom ports of the Case made Over a nine year period. These will be carefully studied by detectives and every pos sible clue will be a Check d. May Start payment of Blind pensions at different times Ottawa March 24. Age pension payments to May Start in some provinces ahead of others Hon. C. A. Dunning min ister of finance told the House of commons monday. In some prov inces the necessary legislation is on the statutes to make the Dominion act effective by regulation. Others will have to await the passage of enabling acts. As some provincial Legislatures were in session Mir. Dunning asked and was Given speedy approval of Senate amendments to the Bill. Moke abot t deputies continued front Page one tank and Down into the suction Section by a Long Rusty pipe which was found lying near the boiler. Drawn by the web of his own perverted imagination the Mur Derer it is believed May have re turned time and time again to the Musty old boiler that held the secret from vigilant police heartbroken parents and a sympathetic Public. For five years after Julia disappeared the building was broken into on a number of occasions but the properly was not damaged. Tramps thieves or children it is said would have left some sign of their pres ice. On Many occasions mrs. C. A Lee the owner received messages from police that the building had mysteriously been broken into. The nocturnal deeply mysterious visits persisted however and Marks on the Dusty floor of the basement showed that somebody must have been concentrating attention there. Man with hone the search for a Man with a Gray horse which sent police tramping from farm House to farm House in the Lockport District shortly after the Tot s disappearance was re called by detective Serjeant Alex Ander. Somebody reported that shortly after Julia vanished they had seen a girl answering her description driving toward Lockport in the com Pany of a Middle aged Man with a Gray horse. Leaving no clue in investigated we hurried to the Lockport area and visited every Little farm in that Vicinity we found about Twenty Grey Nories but their owners that they had nothing whatever to do with the abduction of the missing girl Hunts through lodging houses transients search of and the checking up of scores of strange stories also recalled tuesday morning detectives working on in the opinion of the police the i the Case paused Lor a breathing body we shoved to the Backol no finally killed is another Point hat will never be cleared up. No organs remain. Bones of feet found intact As or. Speechly and his two assistants dc.1 i a Thompson and or. Sara Mel Tzeis progressed with their macabre task of finding some clue As the child died they found that the. Bones feet were quite intact. A Ray Examina Tion of these tuesday afternoon will show definitely How Long the body Lay hidden from the world. Or. Speedily said tuesday morn ing however that it was a reasonable presumption that the girl was shoved into the boiler on the Day she police officials tuesday morning expressed the same opinion. The dry atmosphere in which the Corpse was placed at first mummified the body it is believed. The covering ashes Over the body and the Lack of moisture it was said would cause the body to require a great Many months be fore it would finally Day Many is still unknown. Inquest on the death of the Little girl will be held wednesday. March 31. The remains will be kept at the Parlours of the Western funeral service where they now a Coroner s jury has viewed them probably thursday. The body will then be released i knew remarked chief of police Smith shortly before noon when or. Speechly called at head quarters and informed him that everything Points to the body having been and thrust into the detectives called into conference a few moments later Tive sergeant Hamilton and Detec Tive Nicholson who had worked almost All night on the Case who prepared the necessary evidence and exhibits for the postmortem examination were summoned from the detective office and went into conference with the chief and Deputy chief a score of clues Many of which have been investigated before will again be studied by the officers and every possible Angle of the Case will be followed in an Effort to bring the brutal killer of the in Nocent Bright eyed Little girl to Justice search for an old Man with a Brownish Grey Beard and Mous tache who according to Florian Kovacs. A resident of Austin Street nine years ago was with a Tot answering the description of the slain girl on the Day of her Dis appearance will again be made while numerous others suspected at the time of the abduction will be brought further questioning. The fact that the Little girl s Skull was not fractured leads to the be Lief that she was strangled by a Pervert who possibly on the pre tense of giving her some Candy lured her from in front of her Little White House at 138 Austin Street to the drab basement of the then deserted warehouse. Here it is feared she was slain and her tiny body doubled up and thrust into the Bow Els of the battered boiler. Hope inquest shows clues As to killer further clues to the identity of this killer axe hoped to be brought out at the inquest the Long delay until March 31 in holding this Cor Oner s inquiry is to allow police to unearth every available bit of eve Doat be fooled appetite. If roil ire wok. Tired out Rick by Kiln fun or shh or i trough. 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