Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 22, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Cd elderly victim feels Justice an injustice by Kevin Prokosh David Mcluskie who defrauded a fort Garry woman of has one room in a medium Security Penitentiary outside Kingston put. His 70-year-old victim who was bilked of her life s savings and her Home now also resides in a one room apartment. Mcluskie could be out of his room in less than half of his five year jail term. His victim however could Well be facing a life sentence in hers. By punishing the Law breaker with a jail term Justice would appear to have been done. But the victim who was recently forced from her Home of 33 years by foreclosure vehemently Dis agrees. Hell be free in a couple of she said. I m never going to have my Home and savings Back. The Law does t care for the victim. It is Only interested in making the Crooks comfortable in the woman who agreed to be inter viewed Only on the basis that she not be identified said at one time she thought she would never have any financial problems. She is now dependent on her pension and resides in a Bachelor apartment in a senior citizen s Home not far from her old House. She is reluctantly getting used to life in a one room apartment. Her willingness to help people is largely responsible for her being conned to the Point where she hardly had enough Money to pay for food. Mcluskie played on the woman s sympathetic nature and pressured her into turning Over to him All her Money with a series of lies and broken promises. After years of being squeezed for Money by Mcluskie which left her seriously contemplating suicide she said the pressure is finally off. The victim of one of the City s worst fraud cases in recent years is still a very bitter woman. She has t forgot ten How her trusting nature got her entangled with Mcluskie. My personality has changed. I Don t Trust anyone anymore. I feel someone will take my Money again and i won t have she still holds out a slim Hope she will get some of her Money Back although she added i May get it after i m her lawyer Doug Hoffer said in an interview he believes the woman has a Good Case and recovery of her Money would be successful. He filed a state ment of claim late last year. See fraud Page 4 rescuers search for 11 buried in showers today 22 Cloudy tonight .10 final 200 Home delivery 957-0550 classified 956-2330 second class mail registration number 026g monday june 22, 1981 Sun rises . Sets . Moon rises . Sets . Living in Home run by John and Millie Watt Are from left Edith Drew Dorothy Scaife Islay Galbraith Agne Jovann Kathy Rose Browaty new legislation to close women s Home sleep All night for worrying about it and All the ladies stayed up late talk ing about it. Ranging in age from 69 to 90, they have become friends in the years they have spent together in a guest Home at 423 Kingsford Avenue. But under new legislation for the regulation and licensing of guest Homes their Home is to be closed. It does t meet the standards say government officials. In a registered letter last week owners Millie and John Watt were told they have 60 Days to close the guest Home and 10 Days to Appeal the Deci Sion. About it. This is my said Kathy Steenson 74. It the closing is separating us too. That s what i Don t like. We be become Islay Galbraith sitting in the sunny living room with the others leaned Down to stroke Hooker the Small female Black and White Mongrel they All love. She used to come in every morning and put her nose on the bed time to get said Galbraith. You d better talk to the Hooker if you want to stay with us said another and they All laughed. Wiches crackers celery Tea and Rice pudding. He sure goes to a lot of trouble to make Lovely said one of the women. Watt was recently diagnosed As suf Fering from Hodgkins disease a Type of cancer and requires chemotherapy that makes him ill Only for two i be lost Power in my hands and feet and i walk with a wooden leg but i can still work Good. "1 think i m making out the government thinks otherwise. In the letter Lack of supervision because of poor health was cited As one reason for the refusal of a licence. Prescribed drugs non adherence to a prescribed treatment regimen disregarding special diets and insensitivity to residents feelings. They re falsely accusing said Watt. They Don t listen to our Side of the added his wife. The Watts said they had one elderly woman resident who was senile and difficult to Deal with. Said Millie Watt. Old and the other residents still Tell stories about the woman s behaviour Apple cores wrapped in toilet tissue in her drawers washcloths pinned to her Walker the times she ran away but when she started striking other residents and repeatedly threatened to kill herself the Watts decided they could not keep her any longer. The complaints about diet treat ment and sensitivity All arose Over that woman they said. The woman accused John Watt of forcibly taking her Walker away causing her to fall and injure herself. It never happened say the other residents. However they added no one Ever asked them about it. Lloyd Dewalt the executive director of the office of residential care appointed by Community services and corrections minister George Minaker see closure Page 4 Atlanta Black facing single murder charge iranian Leader fired hunted Tehran Reuter iranian presi Dent Abolhassan Bani Sadr was Dis missed from office today by revolution Ary Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini the official pars news Agency said. It said the Ayatollah ratified yester Day overwhelming decision of the Irani an parliament impeaching Bani Sadr and dismissed him from the presi Dency. Bani Sadr s fall the French educated economist Iran s first president won office with 75 per cent of the popular vote in an election last year. But Bani Sadr 48, had fought a run Ning feud almost from the Start with the moslem clergy who dominate Iran s Post revolutionary establishment. Iran s revolutionary authorities have ordered a manhunt for Bani Sadr. Al though he has not been seen in Tehran for 12 Days a radio broadcast denied foreign reports that he had fled the country. A statement said Bani Sadr faces prosecution for provocation of Politi Cal groups to resist Legal institutions and the system of the islamic Republic and encouraging prisoners to go on hunger strike three hours earlier the majlis voted by 177 to one to declare Bani Sadr politically incompetent. The president s wife was arrested during saturday s violent Street clashes Between supporters and opponents of the missing president but later released the state radio said. The official pars news Agency con firmed that the bodies of 21 men and four women had been taken to the Tehran Coroner s office after the Street fighting. The prosecutor s office also announced that 15 counter revolution Aries arrested in the clashes were executed by firing squad yesterday morning. They had been condemned by a revolutionary court. Stale television said the charges against the president resulted from an investigation that began after his speech to a rally last March 5. Forty five people were injured at that time in fighting Between his supporters and islamic militants. Atlanta a a Black free Lance photographer charged with the murder of one of 28 Young Blacks was arrested after Laboratory tests linked fibres found on the victim with Evi Dence taken from his Home sources knows How police Wayne b. Williams 23, arrested yesterday was questioned about the slay Ings and released less than three weeks ago. He became the first person charged with any of the killings of 23 juveniles and five Young adults. Safety commissioner Lee Brown told a news conference yesterday that Wil Liams had been charged with one count of criminal homicide in the death of Nathaniel Cater 27, whose body was found May 24 in the Chattahoochee River. Brown refused to say if Williams would be charged with any of the other killings. That s something that s not to be discussed at this he said adding that the investigation would continue full steam Williams was questioned june 3 and released 12 hours later when Brown said there was insufficient evidence for an arrest. He refused to discuss Evi Dence but another official close to the probe said the decision to charge Williams came after completion of lab tests comparing fibres from Cater s body with fibres taken from Williams Home. See splash Page 4 French socialists Complete sweep started by Mitterrand Williams closely watched Paris a president Francois Mitterrand s socialist party won a Rock solid majority of at least 75 seats in the French National Assembly Ena bling him to enact his economic and political program without the communists. With 480 of the 491 Assembly seats decided returns from the Runoff parliamentary elections yesterday gave 283 seats to the socialists and their allies of the Radical left movement a Moder ate party despite its name. Completing the rout started by Mitterrand s Victory in the presidential election May 10, the conservatives after 23 years in Power won Only 152 of the 284 seats they had held. This included 82 for the gaullist led by Jacques Chirac the mayor of Paris 63 for former president Valery Giscard d is Taing s Union of French democracy and seven for other rightists. Communist seats Cut the communists were Cut to 43, half their holding in the last Assembly and two other leftists were also elected. The turnout was 75.8 per cent of the eligible voters compared with 70.9 per cent in the first round june 14. Prime minister Pierre Sauvoy re signed today and Mitterrand immediately asked him to form a new govern ment. Negotiations Are expected soon be twee. The socialists and the communists who aided the socialist Victory by withdrawing their candidates from the races in which socialists ran ahead in the first round. Communist party Leader Georges Marchais said he expects his party to be represented in the new Cabinet and Mitterrand May Reward it with one or two minor posts. But the socialists have said the com-1, munits must accept socialist positions on economic and foreign issues such As the soviet military intervention in Afghanistan and Moscow s deployment of ss-20 missiles targeted on Western Europe. By rewarding the communists Mit see socialists Page 4 debate an anti ballistic missile system the next logical step for president Reagan to take in building . Defences or an invitation to head won transplanted australian golfer David Graham won the . Open and in prize Money yesterday in the simplest Way possible. He stayed out of Pope Pope John Paul ii is Back in Hospital six weeks after he was seriously injured in a shooting. 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