Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Will Flieg foe 3 1981 suspect in indecent assault charged in 3 other sex cases by Murray Menchl a suspect attested earlier this week following an indecent assault on a Young woman in the River Avenue area has been charged with three other sexual attacks in the same general area since Hie new charges against the include one count of two More of indecent two of assault causing bodily harm and one of possessing a weapon for a purpose dangerous to the Public Polick courts Winnipeg police crime Joe Gallagher said yesterday police have reopened their investigations into a number of other unsolved sex offences which occurred in the area this the suspect was arrested monday night following an incident Early Sun Day in which a was accosted and indecently assaulted by a Man As she was walking near the Corner of River Avenue and Mayfair on another also was accosted around 3 while walking near the Eoff Ter of River ave nue and Bryce Gallagher Laid an assailant grabbed threw her to the punched her several times in the head and indecently assaulted tie then dragged her across the Street and threw her to the ground once but abandoned the attack and ran off when a passing Motorist heard the woman screams and stopped to on another 19yearold woman was walking near the Cor Ner of River Avenue and Wilmot place when she was grabbed around the thrown to the ground and indecently when she began her assailant let her go and ran Gallagher a third attack occurred last Sun Day about 45 minutes before the indecent assault for which the Man was originally charged a was walking on Osborne Street about blocks North of River Avenue and stopped to rest in front of the great West life Assurance while she was sitting on the a Man approached and tried to strike up a Gallagher when the woman got up and started to walk the Man grabbed and forced her at knife Point to go behind the Canadian Imperi Al Bank of Commerce Branch at the hotel clerk jailed a former employee of a main Street hotel was sentenced to 30 months in prison this week for robbing a aged and beating him with his own Richard Connell was sentenced by county court judge Jewers on a charge of robbery with the judge said the which occurred at the National hotel in Decem was a premeditated and brutal Crown counsel Sheilla Linburd said the complain suffering from a Bro Ken hobbled into the hotel on crutches at about on he registered for a room and paid Mathews Linburd said the Man Dis played his Money at the front which perhaps in Hindsight was not a terribly intelligent thing to refused offer the Man went to his room and locked the door behind a woman came by ask ing if he wanted to spend the night with but he turned her court was told that Mathews and a co accused later used a key to unlock the door and the pair severely beat the complainant with their Linburd Mathews also used the mans own crutches in the she the suffering from a fractured made his Way to Hospital where he was found to have sustained cuts requiring As Well As abrasions and he also found missing from a jacket pocket and contacted Mathews turned himself in to police later that a trial was set for but the accused failed to he turned up again in july and was held in custody until when he pleaded guilty to the of judge jails youth saying housebreaking Are far too common a crime in a provincial court judge sentenced a 17year old youth to 18 months in jail yesterday for six breaking and two thefts in the City last in imposing the jail term on Jean Pierre Levasseur of Langevin judge Mike Baryluk noted four of the six breaking were at houses and said weve got far too Many of the judge also observed that one of the thefts involved smashing a parking meter and stealing the on probation court was told who was transferred to adult court to face the committed the offences be tween april 8 and in addition to the four Lavasseur and other juveniles broke into two por Tage Avenue business offices and stole a Van from a Marion Street car rental court was at the time of the offences Levasseur was on probation until his 18th birthday after he was convicted in juvenile court in on charges of enter and judge Baryluk said the of fences Levasseur committed were among the most serious set out in the criminal he said he would have imposed a prison term of two or More years had Lavasseur not already spent almost four months in custody awaiting disposition of the James free press Corner of Osborne Street and Broad there he removed part of he clothing and raped Gallagher said the woman later Man aged to break free and started running her attacker chased but passing pedestrian heard her screams and scared the Man the Zoffian wis later taken to Hospi treated and the suspect appeared in court yesterday on All of the charges and was remanded into custody without plea until 2 charged with attempted murder following separate stabbings in City two persons each face a charge of attempted murder following two sep Arate stabbings in the City the first attack occurred about when a 17yearold male was stabbed in the Chest with a screw Riv a police spokesman the spokesman said a Man went to his former girlfriends apartment in a Block on Smith Street and tried to open the door with a the who was in the apart ment with the heard the noise and opened the the Man forced his Way an argument broke out and the intruder stabbed the youth once in the Chest with the police police were called and a suspect was arrested shortly the youth was taken to Hospital with the Chest wound and a partially col lapsed the suspect was charged with at tempted murder and possessing a weapon for a purpose dangerous to the Public he appeared in court was granted and was remanded without plea to police said the second stabbing occurred about when a 40year old Man was stabbed in the Back with a bread knife while walking through Cen trial near the Corner of Carlton Street and Cumberland police said the Man began to run away after the with his assail ant chasing several of the mans who were also in the came to his Rescue and then called the officers searched the area and arrested a female suspect shortly after the the Man was taken to Hospital where he was reported in Satis factory a appeared in court yesterday on a charge of attempted murder and a charge of possessing a weapon for a purpose dangerous to the Public she was remanded into custody without plea to pair charged in robbery a aged and a have been arrested following the Day Light robbery of an elderly Man on a downtown Winnipeg police said yesterday a 67yearold Man was walking along Albert Street Between notre Dame and Mcdermot avenues at about tuesday when he was accosted by a Man and a the Man hit knocking him to the ground and the pair then robbed him of his Wristwatch and a package of Cigar police a witness to the crime called police and two suspects were arrested a Short time later near the Corner of Portage 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