Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 22, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Corporal would t Trad jobs Vancouver up j a City police Corporal who s been shot in the Shoul Der kicked in the head treated for hypothermia and his Crusier rammed by a stolen Van in the last two years says he d never become a firefighter because the Job is too dangerous. I would never be a said Cpl. Grant Driver sporting a fresh scar from a recent assault. I think a fireman s Job is a helluva to More dangerous than mine. We Don t get involved in that much Vio Lence. We can usually talk our Way out of it. Whiplash injury in March 1979, Driver a 13-year police Veteran was involved in a cops and robbers Chase when his Cruiser was broadside by a stolen Van. He spent two months recovering from whiplash. Two months later a woman decided to commit suicide by drowning herself in English Bay. Driver dived in after her and with the help of a firefighter and a policewoman brought the woman to Shore. Driver and the woman were treated for hypothermia a potentially fatal condition caused by rapid Cooling of the body. When the sounds of gunfire echoed among the Concrete apartment build Ings in Vancouver s West end in october 1980, Driver was one of the policemen trying to find the sniper. He was shot in the right forearm. Two weeks ago Driver tried to pry apart a Man and woman fighting outside a rundown hotel and was kicked in the head. Six stitches were needed to close the wound. Vancouver police officer Grant Driver has been injured four times in two years but says his Job is safer than a firefighter s. Winnipeg free press wednesday april 22, 1981 9 True armoured truck guards held up in Montreal store Montreal cps three armed vehicle while two of. People famous names and what they re doing to stay that Way. Daily on relax Winnipeg free press Home delivery 957-0550 942-2161 Montreal up three armed men fled with in Cash and cheques after holding up two Wells Fargo armoured truck guards yesterday at a downtown department store police said. One of the guards was kicked in the face during the heist at Eaton s on Ste. Catherine Street West and was taken to Hospital for treatment. It was the third robbery involving armoured truck firms in Quebec within a month. During easter weekend 000 disappeared from an Alliance Blinde Ltee warehouse in Sherbrooke while another million was stolen March 26 when one of the same company s trucks was hijacked in Montreal s financial District. Lieut. Robert Brosseau of the Mon Treal police Holdup squad said the Wells Fargo guards were jumped outside a freight elevator in Eaton s basement where they were collecting sales receipts from the easter weekend. Fled from elevator the bandits wielding revolvers and a Shotgun and sporting rubber halloween masks shoved the guards into the elevator and seized their guns and loot As they ascended to the third floor. When the doors opened the Trio fled in any one of three or four Brosseau said. The guards armoured truck was parked on an elevated service ramp linking a Back Alley with the store s third floor. Virtually All of the action occurred in areas reserved for Eaton s staff and few shoppers were aware of the crime until police cars came to the scene. In Sherbrooke police were investigating the weekend Alliance Blinde robbery amid Strong indications that it was an inside the company s triple lock Safe showed no sign of dam age indicating it was opened by some one who knew the combinations. Last month s Montreal armoured car hijacking which a Lone gunman climbed into the cab of the parked vehicle while two of the truck s three guards were out having lunch led to five persons being charged including one of the company s guards an inglorious history of armoured car robberies in recent years has Given Montreal a particular notoriety in North american financial circles. In March 1976, bandits used a heavy machine gun mounted in a Van to Rob almost million from a Brink s Van in an Alley beside a Royal Bank Branch in the financial District. At the time it was the biggest Rob Bery in North american history. Police eventually made several arrests and announced the Case been solved but All the suspects were released for Lack of evidence and nobody has been arrested since. Foul play ruled out in deaths of three University students Woodstock . Up three University of new Brunswick students fell to their deaths in what ramp described yesterday As three separate accidents at Remote Hay s Falls near Here during the weekend. The police said they have ruled out foul play and no charges Are being considered. Autopsies were not finished and the causes and exact times of the deaths were not Given. Two other campers been questioned by police after the Accident was reported but were not in custody. It looks like three separate Acci dents All within a Short time of each ramp sergeant Frank Jory said in an interview. Janet Mary Lynn Taylor 19, of St. Lambert que., Paul Frederick Gra Ham 19, of Westmount que., and Nels Anderson 22, of Greenbelt md., were killed while camping at Hay s Falls about 13 Kilometres South of Here. They were students at the Frederic ton Campus of the University of new Brunswick. Police pieced together what happened from the accounts of two other campers Kevin Ralph Sanford 18, of Fredericton and Michael Armstrong Eppolit 18, of Kingston ont. Eppolit was the Only one in the group who was not a Una student. Jory in charge of the ramp detach ment Here said the group set up Camp at the Edge of the Cliff overlooking the Falls a drop of 30 metres As High As a nine Storey building. Sometime late sunday night or Early monday morning Anderson wandered too close to the Cliff lost his balance and fell police believe. Search began it is thought that Graham and san Ford went Down a Trail and worked their Way around to the base of the Cliff to begin searching for Anderson. They then began climbing up the face of the Cliff searching for their Friend. The two soon became separated in the dark. The police said Sanford found Anderson s body and called to Graham for assistance but got no answer. 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