Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 25, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Win Nam pair finds costly affair by Kevin Prokosh two Young men who had counted on a Quick from distributing handbills for escort services and body rub Parlours each had to Shell out in bylaw court the two were caught slipping business cards that touted an evening in Paradise under the doors of rooms in the downtown Holiday judge Jane Maurer was told that John William and David Michael were walking Avenue last March when an unknown Man offered them the Handbill the pair accepted the proposition and were apprehended by hotel Security men on the 15th floor of the Holiday inn and charged with distributing commercial handbills on private Over 350 cards advertising Lovely female babysitters for the discriminating gentleman were seized by vice officers of the Winnipeg police the two men pleaded not guilty to the charges arguing that they didst see any signs in the hotel prohibiting the distribution of judge Maurer found the two noting that there were Many signs in the they were fined each and both ordered to pay court and they never did get paid the promised them by the unknown the men could have been fined up for each offence under the while a company is liable upon conviction to a maximum Fine of in recent numerous Young people have been handed stiff fines for distributing similar cards for body rub and escort services in local almost epidemic proportions Crown attorney Corrine Deegan said yesterday the number of cards being circulated has reached almost epidemic proportions and downtown Holiday inn general manager Ernest Heiland agreed the situation has gotten out of its a tremendous problem because our customers get them on a daily he As a taxpayer in incensed we have no other hotel employees echoed Hollands Heiland said he receives continuous complaints from guests who Are offended about getting the Many believe the services offered on the handbills Are linked to the Here we Are telling tourists to come to Winnipeg and when they get Here they Are faced with this said in frustrated about the Little punch the Law he although he said there int much the hotel can do to combat the situation Short of Locking its hotel Security has been but while the Handbill distributors Are being the operators of Winnipeg body rub Parlours and escort services Are waiting for a Manitoba court of Appeal decision on whether they have a right to circulate the advertising Deegan said there Are Over 70 charges against Winnipeg companies for violation of the cites Handbill All the charges Are being remanded week week until the court of appeals expected court told of sex attack a Riverbank by Steve Pona a Winnipeg woman yesterday told a county court trial How she was accosted at a bus Stop and forced to walk to a where she was raped and her head held underwater by a Man claiming to be a secret the testified that the whom she identified As Joseph Etienne approached her As she stood at a bus Stop on Carlton Street and Graham Avenue at about 10 on april she had just got off the Man asked her a then told her he had a gun in his pocket and that she had better come with he claimed he was a secret agent and that he was going to deliver some papers to someone waiting at the Assiniboine under questioning by Crown counsel Terry the woman said the Man led her through the downtown area to the where he forced her to undress and raped the attacker made her commit an act of Gross indecency As punishment for she the who said she was slapped and punched during the told the court she managed to kick the Man off her body and run away but that he gave Chase and tackled her from after a he pulled her by the threw her into the River and held her body under she i i was the woman her voice she said she grabbed the mans privates and that was my last i her assailant pulled her out of the water and threw her Back on to the would have been i asked him Why he didst kill me and he i dont but i wish i the woman told judge Ruth the Man told her if i would have been underwater for four More i would have been the covered with mud and Clad Only in jeans and a eventually broke free and ran crying to h passerby for the woman testified during the first Day of Gauthiere trial on six including attempted Gross indecency and assault causing bodily of has pleaded not guilty on All the woman told the court she didst know whether the Man was really a secret j wanted to believe he she i was on their Way to the the pair passed a group of people leaving marys Cathedral on Mary the Man held her by the the complainant said Anna one of that testified she heard the woman Tell the Man 1 dont want to go with Bragg and the others got into a car and followed the couple something didst seem they pulled up beside the pair Threet four blocks later and asked the woman if she needed Bragg she moved away from turned her head to the Side but didst say she she was very confused and i think she was also fright ened the complainant 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