Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 9, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Widow upset Over Book on flying Bandit by Gregg Shilliday Ken irishman widow says she is extremely Hurt by the manner in which she and her family Are portrayed in a new fictionalized biography based on her famous husbands the recently published the flying by Heather is an account of the notorious Winnipeg Bank robber who died in a plane crash two years Best known for a Gold Bullion robbery at Winnipeg International Airport in Leishman dropped of the Public Eye after his subsequent prison term and started a new life in Northern Ontario As a respected Pilot and Busi Nessman before his in a Telephone interview from her Home in Elva Leishman said she was extremely Hurt and upset when my children called me from Canada to Tell me what was in the Robertson has said the Book is in tended to be a mythologized adventure Story As opposed to a traditional one aspect of the Book that particularly concerned Leishman was the publishing of a couple of Leish mans those were they we rent for everyone to one was to our i cant understand How she got hold of i certainly have Given my permission to have them she Leishman said Robertson had contacted her in 1980 to talk about the proposed Book but i waited and waited and never heard from her a devout also objected to Robertson leaving the impression that Leishman May have staged the crash and still be alive there is the Ontario police said they found bits of his clothing and his yellow boots and his they were All chewed the police said he was dead for i have talked to Ken since the his i he is very Happy where he is Leighman said Hollywood actor Darren Mcgavin has bought Leish mans unfinished he is apparently arranging financing for a movie based on Leishman but Leishman said she was unaware that Robertson had also sold film rights to her new Book Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent to direct and Star in the movie i dont we May have to take All this to a i guess ill leave it up to she Leishman mythologized Cloudy tonight 1 Cloudy tomorrow 4 final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 november 1981 Sun rises sets Moon rises five die in Neepawa House fire Ken free press by Murray Mcneill Winnipeg free press Neepawa three men and two boys died Early yesterday in what is believed to be the worst fire in this southwestern Manitoba towns his its definitely the worst As far As that anyone in Nee Pawa can said town fire chief Alban the five were killed in a Blaze that swept through a two Storey stucco Home at 5031st Avenue shortly before 3 two women and three girls who were also asleep in the House escaped by leaping out a second Storey one of the women broke her leg when she hit the but the others escaped serious ramp in Neepawa were withholding the names of the 10 persons pending notification of next of Kin and positive identification of the but according to the owner of the who was of the those killed included three members of a Plumas an 11yearold Winni Peg boy and a Neepawa aged dead identified Flora identified the dead As her Walter Squires of his two Ray and her grand Joseph James of Winni and a Friend of her Elvis of Beaulieu said the other four survivors included her her Yvonne and the Squires two and her left Arm and both hands plastered with de scribed in a but steady voice How the tragedy unfolded during an interview at the Home of her she said the her grandson and the Kaye boy had All been visiting her for the Early sunday morning the three girls and Squires went to sleep Iti two of the three upstairs bedrooms of her while the three men and the two boys bedded Down in the Mai floor Beaulieu said that shortly before 3 her suddenly first i heard Priscilla and then i could smell she said that before she went to bed saturday i had a feeling some thing was going to and As soon As she i knew our House was on wakes her Mother she quickly woke her who was asleep next to Beaulieu said that after Priscilla woke i got up and screamed at my sister inlaw to get i told her the House was on could hear the fire crackling and i looked through this Square Hole air vent in the floor and i could feel the heat and see the she quickly ran to the next bedroom and awoke her two As they ran past the stairs leading to the main the smoke was coming up from the she although she wanted to go and see if the men and the boys had gotten we just go Down realizing the Only Way out was through the bedroom she and her nieces smashed the Beaulieu said she was the first to and the others Squires broke her leg upon but others escaped with Only scrapes and once they ran next door to daughter Olgas Home and began pounding on the this woke see 5 die Page 4 bombers fizzle a lion player might Well be congratulating Winnipeg Little to cheer about As they watched the Lions silence the Blue bombers coach Ray Jauch on getting some Holiday bombers passing game and whip them 1511 to Advance to time after the Lions gave the bombers their most miserable Day of 1981 the chilled spectators had the Canadian football leagues Western conference be s move by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Quebec the pressure is on pre Mier Rene Levesque to come up with a Way to fight prime minister Trudeau today is the speech from the throne at the opening of the Quebec National the province is watching and waiting to see if Levesque will do anything to fight the constitutional Accord wrought by the nine English speaking premiers and Levesque has said Quebec is in a tightening he called the Deal made behind his Back everything under the he ruled out no he said Quebec will do everything possible to oppose the and he warned that the results of last weeks pact will be militant elements of his party Are already calling for a new election on a keep numbers Racket police beg protesting Crooks platform of a referendum on Independence or both an election followed by a Levesque knows he has to face those same militants in the Early Days of december at a full party British born Man David de scribed As a spokesman for Anglo phones in the parti said the result of the constitutional Accord is that the rest of Canada has separated itself from Levesques Cabinet has met in secret to plot every single editorialist in the prov Ince has condemned the Deal to one degree or the English language Montreal Gazette has described in great detail How Levesque is supposed to have been suckered by the prime minister offered Levesque a Deal he knew the Premier would buy another see Levesques Page 4 by Warren Hoge times news service Rio de Janeiro in a sequence of events that could be mistaken for a Damon Runyon operators of the widespread numbers Racket in Rio de Janeiro have threatened to go on strike to protest a police and the cites Law enforcement chief has charged that such a strike would be the principal Bankers of the Jogo do or animal said they would halt All activity unless there was an end to police sweeps that have raided Midtown Headquarters known As shut Down 200 betting locations and jailed More than 600 the Rio numbers network employs people and deals in about million a the game involves a Choice of a five digit number and one of 25 animal it is illegal and depends on official but it is a fixture of brazilian though the government has created four official lotteries to compete with it is still played by millions of brazilians every they cant Waldyr the cites Secretary of Public said when he heard of the strike i dont think their Lack of patriotism will reach that writing in the newspaper journal do Marcos a a political a chief of police indignant Over the spontaneous halt in the very activity that it is his Job to Stop is something that could happen Only in literature or in Rio de Jan colonel leads assault leading the assault on the Jogo do Bicho is Nilton the new commander of the military police Force in Rio and an antagonist of he is calling for a crusade against the the games Bankers have always tried to distract attention from the bloody reckoning Between rival inter Nal factions by contributing Money to soccer Samba clubs and political the Rio Bankers distribute about million hush Money each most people employed in the game have police and the gamblers suggested that a strike would leave them no alternative but to return to the game provides the Only Hope of enrichment to the vast majority of brazilians and it appeals to a sense of superstition Central to the a group of sailors hit the right sequence one Day last month by submit Ting the numbers off the licence plate of a car used by thieves who robbed their an office boy arrived at the same winning figure by combing ing the numbers associated with the animal that had appeared to him in a dream and adding the number of his recently deceased fathers grave Lyon promises Aid for pirates Premier Sterling Lyon said in flin flon saturday a tory government would pay the Legal costs of satellite to pirates if Ottawa took them to nip Leader Howard Pawley attracted More sup porters to a meeting at the Minitonas town Hall than incumbent tory la Doug Gournay and agriculture minister Jim Downey seek probe into raid by Greg Bannister police chief Ken Johnston and the the Winnipeg police commission will be asked to launch an internal investigation into allegations of police mis conduct stemming from a raid on a Mcgregor Street duplex lawyer Heather Leonoff said Satur Day she will request the investigation on the basis of statements by her Chrys of 83 Mcgregor about the raid he says was conducted by six vice division Leonoff said clip Eways version of the incident shocked its the most unusual thing Ive Ever heard she there was apparently no no search done and no arrests we have to have at least a police commission hearing to get the names of the officers we dont even know that Clarke Peckover of the vice division refused to confirm or discuss the raid when questioned about it last he said that As far As he the department Hadnot received any complaints from anyone living at 83 i have no information on anything that went and if they Are in certainly not going discuss it with the he in an said six officers kicked in the rear door of his duplex at about and charged in with guns he said the offi cers arrived in three marked police the he did not bother knocking on the door to gain they were just like he Chippeway said police took nothing from his Home and he has not heard see dont Page 4 double win James has become Premier elect of Prince Edward Island with a Victory in a weekend tory leadership Durant Dies pulitzer prizewinning historian will Durant died saturday at the age of 96 without knowing of the death of his two weeks secret pact Egypt has secret assurances of a military umbrella against the soviets in the event of an egyptian attack on in control the Quebec government has negotiated a Deal giving it majority voting rights of Asbestos ensuring control of the Index Ann 24 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