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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 18, 1962, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free press. Monday june 18, 1962 bludgeoned i to death Hamilton up police sunday recovered from Lake Ontario a suit jacket belonging to a Man whose wife and two children were hammered to death in their Hamilton Home saturday. Mrs. Doris pent Ilchuck 38, and her son. Wayne 19, and daughter Linda 4, were bludgeoned with a claw Hammer As they slept and their bodies were stated with a knife police said. John pent Ilchuck 38, the father of the family is being sought by Hamilton detectives. His car was found abandoned on a Rock in Oakville. Smiley i optometrist f eyes examined j office Royal Bank t Selkirk seller jul 6-2482 constipated herbal laxative family size More about prison continued from Page 1 Oas burners for Uii mra e e Industrial boilers custom burners for ovens. Dryers. Kunys heat treat Etc. Gas 733 Pembina Hwy. Go 3-8035 no payment till sept. Lit. 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Hundreds of shots echoed in Side the prison Walls As the fires and rioting reached their Peak and sporadic firing continued far into the night. Or. Macleod who flew to the prison from Ottawa sunday night said the Board will com prise three senior officers from the penitentiaries one from Ottawa one from St. Vincent de Paul and the third from another Canadian Penitentiary. All guards and prison officials As Well As the prisoners involved would be interviewed. 140 in for life there was no immediate indication of who the ringleaders were. Some 140 of the prisoners were serving life sentences. The commissioner said nine of the buildings suffered heavy damage among them the roman Catholic Chapel the Kitchen and All the work build Ings. Prisoners would have to be occupied with outdoor activity until the facilities could be re stored. Ambulances shuttled Back and Forth continually Between Montreal hospitals and St. Vin cent de Paul a Community opposite Montreal Island on the North Shore of Riviere Des Prai Ries. Some were still moving at . Cars were pressed into serv ice during the afternoon horns i blaring in place of sirens to i carry injured men to Montreal. One ambulance cracked up in the North end suburb of St. Michel in a collision with a car. Its Driver and the Passen Ger a convict were taken to Hospital in another ambulance. The riot was quelled by a j combined Force of soldiers ramp provincial and Munici pal police. Warden Lecorre estimated the Force at 100 sol Diers co Federal and 40 Provin Cial police. An undetermined number of police from sur rounding municipalities patrolled the grounds outside the Walls he said. Crack soldiers arrive later three army buses arrived from Quebec City carry ing about 150 armed soldiers of Quebec s crack Royal 22nd regiment. Or. Lecorre said the riot had every appearance a Well planned manoeuvre. Flames belched out of six of the 15 buildings within the compound simultaneously and hundreds of howling prisoners ran amok with a variety of makeshift weapons knives pipes zip guns and Molotov Home made gasoline bomb. Firemen from St. Vincent de Paul first outsiders on the scene were met at the Gates with a Hail of shots. Repulsed they fought the flames from aluminium ladders propped against the 40 foot outer Walls. Reinforcements arrived from the fire departments of Montreal Montreal North St. Francois and Duvernay. Efforts to snuff the fires were hampered by the rioting prisoners and a Lack of water pres sure. Two pump trucks loaned by Montreal roared Back and Forth Between the prison and the Riviere Des Prairies carrying water. Firemen perched on a truck s Aerial ladder above the Walls squeezed every last ounce of pressure from their hoses to reach the nearest fires. Power fails prison communications blacked out and electrical Power failed As the flames ate the insulation from wires. It was not until the first the 25th Central ordnance depot in East end Tongue at Sun set that firemen entered the prison s East Gate under escort. Soldiers and ramp officers armed with automatic weapons took up posts along the Walls. Other Federal police carrying Riding crops went into the prison while two Man teams of Penitentiary guards armed with rifles ranged the grounds out Side. As darkness settled soldiers filed in. Carrying flashlights and spotlights operated by line Generator. Prisoners still Clafli from the afternoon s exercise period were herded at Bayonet Point into two groups at oppo site Corners of the compound. They later were bunched against the North Wall where Many having no cells spent the night in the open. 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Stemm of him moving storing packing snipping experience responsibility Economy phone us 3-7171 dec Verity to race keeping bayonets fixed by Ken Smith Montreal up a pall of smoke and heavy stench of destruction Hung Over riot ripped St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary to Day nearly 24 hours after the first flames of trouble broke out. Inside the smoke stained Walls soldiers wearing steel helmets and with glistening bayonets affixed to their Semi Auto Matic rifles stood silently watch ing a tired unshaven but still defiant mob of 650 prisoners j still being kept in the prison Yard. Behind the soldiers firemen directed streams of water on parts of the grim Federal maximum Security institution that still burned. A group of reporters and photographers taken inside the Walls was hooted and jeered by the prisoners standing huddled and hungry behind barbed wire barricades. Prison officials said the men who spent the night outdoors have had nothing to eat since noon sunday. Heavy damage Many of the buildings looked As though they had been hit by shells. About half the buildings had suffered serious damage. The Kitchen most of the shops the Library and the psychiatric Ward were destroyed with Only the six Stone Walls and a few steel bars Many welted by the in tense heat still standing. Littering the gravel Yard were pools of dirty water charred bits of Wood thick ashes and half eaten sandwiches and pm. Pay Coffee containers used by ithe firemen troops and police men who battled the outbreak through the night. The Penitentiary is about 14 Miles Northeast of Montreal. Four Hundred Yards in front of the Penitentiary flows Riviere Des Prairies. Firemen ran hoses from the River to get enough water to Battle the flames. Outside the Walls convoys of army vehicles moved steadily i bringing in fresh troops to re place those who had been on duty All night and bringing in fresh supplies. We knew this was real bad9 Montreal up it re minded me of an aftermath of a civil mayor Rodolphe Lavoie of suburban St. Vincent de Paul said today after a visit to the scene of sunday s prison ers riot. Mayor Lavoie was a guard at one time at St. Vincent de Paul maximum Security Penitentiary heavily damaged by rioting prisoners who set fire to buildings. In my 12 years experience As a guard i saw a lot of things he said. I thought i had seen everything until this came on our very own door he was one of the first per sons to enter the prison Yards when the riot broke out. Wounded prisoners were lying on the ground while others ran across Yards and into Burn ing buildings. Never forget what i saw inside these prison Walls is something i will remember the rest of my Joseph Nadeau 63, a former guard reported for duty when the trouble started. He lives near the Penitentiary and rarely gets excited about riots. But this time it was different. We knew this. One was real bad when we heard fire equip ment coming from air Over and shots sounding All Over the said his son Robert Nadeau. Newsreel photographers who climbed to. The roof of building overlooking the prison got a Good look at what was going on. Said one of them we saw some 500 prisoners cornered in the Northwest end Yard. The guards were. Firing and the inmates were falling Down and crawling with blood streaming from them. Bullets were Rico Cheting off the Walls ? she estimated the morning vote was a Little bit heavier than the 1958 election. Winnipeg North officials said they had no reports a at press time from the polling stations. However one said that visits to a few stations indicated a very Good Early morning turnout. He estimated it was pro Bably a better than the 1958 morning vote. Winnipeg South returning officer Walter Ritchie said he had not had any reports on the turnout at the polls but was get Ting "from1 what i pre dict a heavy he added. St. Boniface the turn out at the polls in the Cathedral City was described As pretty Good monday morning. There was no definite indication that More people would vote this year than did in 1958, but the Large Nup Ber of phone Calls to election Headquarters inquiring about polling stations was encouraging. Springfield voters were reported to be milling around All six polling stations in the constituency Early monday. Re turning officer William Horodyski reported that people Are lined up waiting to vote in Tyndall and if that s any indication the turn out will be very Dauphin District returning officer Vernon Hampton reported a pretty Good turnout at the polls in the town itself. He said this year s morning vote was heavier than the 1958 election be cause monday is now a Holiday in Dauphin and All stores and Many businesses Are closed. Or. Rampton had no reports More about charges continued from Page 1 returns to films Robert stack the Elliot Ness of to s re turns to movies As a crusading doctor in the a ring around the railway Sta Tion. When the train came to a halt policemen searched the cars and arrested the two men. They did not offer any Resis Tance. For William police received in formation that two parcels had been left on the cur train which continued towards sur Bury ont. After the men were arrested. Winnipeg police were notified of the arrest and investigation and a warrant to search the two parcels was then sworn out. The warrant was executed in the Sud Bury railway station moments after the train pulled in there. The two parcels were found in the baggage car and were taken Back to fort William to be opened. At Lakehead Winnipeg s detective sergeant William Johnston and detective Joseph Vidette were in fort William conducting an investigation along with Constable a. R. Aubrey of the Tion Branch of the ramp. They had left Winnipeg for the Lakehead by car Early saturday with an ramp escort. The officers Are not expected Back in Winnipeg until wednesday. Police forces investigating the Bank robbery were praised by inspector Scott. Every Force concerned in the Bank robbery did a tremendous Job and gave us a lot of help in our investigation. They certainly did a Good Job. All of them he said. The Ontario provincial police and the Force in fort William worked As hard on the Case As our Force along with suburban police and the inspector Scott said. In Comfort the two men apparently spent thursday night in the Comfort of the Henricia hotel in Kenora while police and other searchers walked rain drenched across open country 100 Miles away looking for them. The Anola District search had begun when police found an abandoned car near Anola a car which had been wrecked to give it the appearance of hav ing been left Days before. Police had been checking East bound cars but missed the two men. They Are believed to have hitch hiked from Anola to Ren Nie where police suspect they boarded a freight train to ride to Kenora. Arriving at Kenora the two suspects checked into the hotel getting room 308 from clerk Romeo Favreau. The room clerk did not see them again until they checked out about . Fri Day. By this time the men wore different clothes and carried Dif frent second hand Luggage. Separately both men had visited the be Nora railway station separately Friday morning each asking for a ticket to Sudbury. Two packages wrapped in Brown paper believed to con Tain the obtained in the robbery were among their lug Gage when they called the taxi Driver to take them to the rail Way station Friday afternoon. Kenora cabbie Eddie Bunn just tossed the two into the trunk along with the other Luggage. They were very he said later. It was raining heavily so i just tossed them the packages were separated from the rest of the Luggage by one of the men who took them to the express agent in Kenora and addressed them to his Mother and sister in Montreal before he boarded the train. one suspected the contents while the parcels were loaded from the express Wagon into the train. They were recovered by police at Sudbury. Available on other polling Sta the constituency. I3jsgar District returning of Ficeti Cecil treble of Crystal City said a heavy vote is anticipated in the constituency this he said the Early morning turnout was exceptionally the vote so far he said com pares favourably with the 1958 election when the constituency registered an enthusiastic res Ponse at the polls. Brandon a sprinkling of votes was reported in the wheat City. District returning officer e. D. Alder said the morning vote in Brandon is usually Light with most voters going to he polls at noon or after 5 . One returning officer took sick overnight he said but a replace ment was quickly found. Marquette returning officer Morris Lavery of Newdale said he had no idea of How heavy the voting was in his rid ing and would not be receiving reports from Many polls until later in the Day. Portage Neepawa voting was reported to be quite heavy in the City of Portage la Prairie but returning officer Charles w. Sing said there would be reports from the Rural polls in Portage until much later. Some of them Don t even have phones and we won t hear from them until 8 ." he said. Selkirk everything is go ing reported returning officer Harold Johnson. The polls Are Busy and it looks like we will definitely have a Large turn out than Ever Provencher Early voting was quite heavy in Provencher. Returning officer Abram Braun of Altona said. We expect a very heavy vote. 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