Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 11, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba Prison and the Gallows contend in Battle Over murder and Law the grim Story of an innocent Man who was hanged for a Mur Der he did not commit was told at a panel discussion on capital punishment monday night. Or. Justice a. M. Monnin of the Manitoba court of Appeal Harry Walsh a Winnipeg lawyer who has appeared As defence counsel in Many murder trials and Roy Gallagher former Crown counsel now in private practice were the members of the panel who spoke at a dinner meeting of the East Kildonan kiwanis club at the Curtis hotel. The Case of the innocent Man being hanged occurred in eng land in 1949, or. Walsh said. A or. Evans was tried convicted and hanged for the Mur Der of his wife and daughter one of the roomers in the Evan s code was changed and murder cases were divided into capital and non capital murders. Capital murder occurred when planning and deliberation were Art of the act. If convicted the penalty according to Law had to a hanging. If convicted of non capital murder the penalty had to be life imprisonment. The lawmakers he said erred when they changed the code for they did t define what was meant by deliberation or planning so it was Only As a Compromise to appease those who were calling for the abolition of capital punishment that they enacted the new Law. To prison to make matters worse he said the Cabinet in Ottawa then began to commute the sentences Lull 1c i a inn a i t us Sicul la me Home a or. Christie was one of most of those who had been of the prosecution witnesses. Or. Convicted of capital murder and Evans at his trial had Christie was the murderer. Instead sent them to prison for life. Eople were sentenced to life imprisonment when convicted of murder or. Walsh said. Or. Gallagher said that while be was prepared to agree with or. Walsh in some instances there were just As Many other areas where he disagreed. It has never been proved that capital punishment is not a an English commis Sion had gathered evidence for four years and had reported that while they could t exactly deter mine the matter the statistics showed that capital punishment did act As a of the 15 states in the United states that had once abolished capital punishment 11 or 12 had re introduced it. He said. Retribution in criminal Law is not synonymous with As or. Walsh would have you believe or. Gallagher said. Society expresses its revulsion for murder and asks for the pen Alty of death for murder. This is 11, in and it would take great pressure i continue to ask for the death from the Public before the Law i penalty for capital murder could be changed so that All i Gallagher said. Strategy difference with . Ilk. Sticks to a deterrent 1953, in the former Evans j this had an Adverse effect j the social and moral level for Home where the wife and Daugh on the. Administration of Justice j people to live by would Ler had been murdered and. Where Christie still lived the police found another dead body and five or six More women buried in the Garden. Christie was tried convicted and hanged. Was this a Case of judicial Mur or. Walsh asked. In report i have no apologies to make for the stand i take calling for the abolition of capital punish or. Walsh said and pointed out that there were Mem Bers in the audience who had served As jury members in some of his cases. There was world wide interest in having capital punishment abolished he said. There had been a United nations report that contained sound arguments in favor of abolishing capital punishment a of the Gloria Fern Beloff 17, daughter of or. And mrs. Harold Beloff of 344 lans Downe Avenue has been awarded a 1ode Manitoba War memorial bursary the award is one of 25 Bur Saries offered annually to de serving students across can Ada. Miss Beloff graduated from St. John s High school in june and will enter the University of Manitoba this month in the general arts course majoring in psycho logy. She eventually Hopes to obtain her master s degree in educational and clinical psychology. By Flora Lewis for the reported big change in London special tons defence minister Peter Thorney Croft reaffirmed Britain s Basic Reliance on the atomic deterrent rather than Continental based european assessments a shift that but this is the Long term stand would come near to wiping out the Short term position rests on the infantry Gap in the same Way that rethinking wiped out the Long advertised missile two pillars it said. One is that West Germany must not acquire any real nuclear Power and the rather than Continental based Long advertised missile any real nuclear conventional forces in an inter a if the report is Correct it other is that Britain must retain View published Here monday. 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Western policy has Long been based on the Assumption that con to the times said the . Now j geography and manpower gave House of commons and Senate user com i the soviet Union overwhelming at Ottawa reported tha hang s j Aoe West conventional superiority in Euing was not a deterrent to other cont Nui British Esti. I ,.ope which Nad to be offset by potential murderers. Of 150 combat divisions. Nuclear threat. Society had a very effective the exposition of or. Thor a or. Thorneycroft also Leitera Means of dealing with murder-1 views reflected no Ted the British View that this ers by putting them in prison for standing British policy country must continue a major life he said. 1 i change in standing British policy. But it is unusual to have the people who commit murder in position said Down some cases May not be legally in this Way and the interview insane but they Are medically in j taken As sane but if they Are convicted , expect they Are hanged he said. Why do we have to do we maim someone who is convicted of assault do we Burn attempt to fore stall expected Sharp criticism from two sides. Short of goal country must continue a major commitment of his strength in the far East a stand that has come in for some trans Atlantic criticism. According to the interview in i Tain continues to have doubts about the . Plan for a nato Ort of j Force and on one Side there has been Fer some o Down a Man s Home when he is continued . Pressure for a con convicted of arson Tifental build up. Britain is still we Tell our children it is mor ally wrong to the ten com say the same thing. Dark Strangler or. Walsh spoke of Winnipeg s dark Strangler murder Case of 1927. The Strangler was obviously insane but he was convicted and hanged in Short or this was revenge com parable to he said. There is always the risk of error especially As to identity he said. A Transcona Man was convicted of murder and sentenced to hang. Four judges of the Manitoba court of Appeal said the conviction was just. One judge dissented and said the Man should have been sentenced to life imprisonment. Three weeks ago the Man s sentence was reversed by the supreme court of Canada. They ordered a new trial. A hanging error never can be or. Walsh reminded his Audi ence that in 1961 the criminal skin itch ugly skin blemishes on face or body eczema pimples red Seal itching skin and athlete s foot Are quickly relieved by Nix Oder. Antiseptic act Lou heals help make skin softer smoother clearer. Ask your drus Sist for Nix Oder ointment and soap. Help clean Clear and revitalize your skin. Look better last. A few thousand Short of its goal of a Force in Ger Many and has resisted repeated suggestions that the goal should be increased to on the other Side the opposition labor and Liberal parties have been acidly critical of the government s defence policies calling for abandonment of nuclear Power and a big increase in manpower. The government als o has angry defence critics inside the conservative party who never believed the Contention when conscription was ended that the for Ces could be kept up to strength by recruiting alone. Figures published last month gave fuel to the conservative critics. They showed that instead of approaching its goal of men the army was starting to shrink. On july 1, it had soldiers and recruiting offices reported that Only half As Many volunteers were applying to join the service As last year. Standards up selective standards have been tightened and this caused Somi of the drop. But the figures showed an ominous trend expected t look even worse at the end of Thi the original Worcester for the original Cook. _ or added or Lea Perrins in your dishes them. A few d in the mixture of patties meat 1 and meat Sam year when the first crop of six year volunteers will have Corm lated their terms and Many Wil be leaving. As parliament had adjourned when the report was released the news caused Little stir. Its imply cations Are Likely to be Brough out when defence issues Are de bated again however. Or. Thorneycroft s interview did not go into this Heads am feet Side of the manpower prob but reiterated a strategy concept that would minimize i significance. He said Britain was convince there could be no controlled an reds to stay in j Vientiane Vientiane Laos Reuters pro communist Patchet lao rooms will remain in Vien Ane despite a shooting fray a today Between Patchet lao and right Wing forces Here. Earlier the rightists announced the Patchet lao troops would be evacuated from the capital. Some diplomats were re sieved that the troops stationed Lere As a bodyguard for pro communist ministers in the coalition government would re main thus giving an Opportunity for peace talks among the bickering leftist rightist Neu Tralis factions in the govern ment. Discussions have been going on for the last three months which it was hoped would Lead to a Summit meeting be-1 tween Premier Souvanna Houma Leader of the Neutral its and Patchet Loa chief Prince Soukhanouvong the pre Mier s half brother. Two persons were killed and two injured in monday s Exchange of fire. One was a Patchet Lap Soldier and the other a filipino passer by. A government communique on the incident claimed Patchet lao troops launched a Surprise at tack with automatic weapons and grenades on the House of a High ranking right Wing officer. It claimed the incident was provoked to prevent Souvanna leaving to head the laotian Dele for Cook Book "100 ways to be original in All your Send 25j in Coin to Perrins Winona onic. The original Worcestershire sauce selective use of Battlefield n Clear weapons against a Large scale attack and that Quick escalation to full Power atomic Exchange would be inevitable. In the British View this fact serves to deter attack. Planning for a Long conventional defence might make the russians think an atomic Exchange could be avoided and so make an attack More Likely. Or. Thorneycroft also Indica Ted that British intelligence con siders the russian posture in Europe now one of defence and containment rather than potential the times said the United states was now advocating this View and that . Strategists were drastically recalculating downwards the number of soviet divisions to be faced. Instead of the accepted figure of 175 combat divisions the times said that the . Now figured the russians had 60 com Bat divisions and the remainder was support forces. The British disagree assessing soviet combat strength at 150 divisions of which about 100 Are in european Russia and Eastern Europe. Of these 20 Are said to be in East Germany two in Poland and four in Hungary. No specific sources were Given gation at the United nations. 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