Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 8, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Sex trial told of Money by Pamela Fayerman an 18yearold Man who alleges he had an illegal sexual relationship with a Winnipeg police Constable testified yesterday he used the officer for All the Money he could but denied his role was that of a Hans John who was 17 when the alleged 10 to 15 sexual encounters took place Between and March said he needed the Money for hockey training and bar hop Taenzer was testifying at the trial of James Norman who was arrested March 11 and charged with Gross he has been suspended from the police Force without Taenzer said Hanson offered him a motorcycle if he withdrew his accusation of sexual relations and although he found the offer appealing enough to carry on the he said he became resentful when the officer kept pleading with him to change his Taenzer said he kept telling Hanson he would change his Story just so he would have a better Chance of getting him kicked off the police Force and off my Back and so he would have a better Chance at making it with my attempted suicide i wanted him put away because of what he did by ruining my whole my family and other Peoples Taenzer Taenzer said he attempted suicide by consuming about five 292s after the trial began last month because he was so annoyed when his name was published in the free name in the paper got to but like i now i want the courtroom i want everybody to he said his suicide attempt was a stupid thing to Why should i do it for him Taenzer then added he feels painted in reports of the trial As the while Hanson was made to look in an attempt to Contra dict Taenzer Hanson lawyers tendered into evidence Tran scripts of Telephone conversations taped by Hanson Between the complainant and the in one the two discussed Taenzer meeting with a lawyer about changing the statement he gave the following is excerpt of the conversation Hanson of so you talked to him the Taenzer Hanson so what did he say Taenzer i dont he just said he would try and help he would try and get me out of whatever trouble i was going to get Hanson yeah what trouble Are you going to get into Taenzer if i say it didst happen and i got charges probably coming out for like false Hanson Taenzer perjury or whatever be cause youre a cop or whatever another excerpt involved the Alle gation of sexual relations Hanson i never had Oral sex with Taenzer Hanson i never masturbated Taenzer Hanson you never masturbated you never had Oral sex with Taenzer no a further excerpt included this Hanson How did this get started though that what i dont under Taenzer i cant even figure it out i know it want lied in conversations who did not know he was being said that while the transcripts reflect the he lied about everything so that Hanson would leave him alone and think he was going to change his statement when he really had no such when i said no about the sexual relations it was because he was ready to pay for a lawyer and i was thinking about that motorcycle he i just wanted him to leave me i wanted him to think i would change the Taenzer Mother testified that last she discussed her suspicions with detectives who told her not to ask her son and to leave the investigation to the trial before county court judge George Lockwood continues Jim free press Winnipeg free december 1981 3 reaching for the top Leo of Wayzata school in Transcona places a Star atop a scotch Pine in the main display area of the conservatory at Assiniboine Park with the help of Bob jacks of the Winnipeg Parks and recreation fort five Grade 4 students from the school spent yesterday morning putting hundreds of ornaments they created on eight Trees in the conservatory As part of a Parks and recreation department Christmas display workers urge nip labor legislation by Brian Cole some Boeing workers Are becoming increasingly disenchanted with the nip governments failure to act on promises to implement first contract labor it looks like they Are dragging their Harold chairman of the Boeing strike said in an interview it int Good there kind of leaving us High and said one of about 90 workers fired during the about 450 Boeing members of the United Auto workers of Ameri ended monthlong strike at the company two Winnipeg plants on banking on a belief the nip would implement first con tract legislation after forming the Core High rises Clear new Airport zoning by John Mcmanus new zoning regulations to protect Winnipeg International Airport flyways will not affect High Rise development the regional superintendent of airways says the new transport Canada regulations extend runway Protection from High Rise natural growth and garbage which attract Birds and create a Hazard to Don Spruston said an interview the which apply to air ports operated by transport were gazetted in full in yesterdays free the major change is the Extension of the transitional which is a surface on an inclined an nary or that extended feet from a this surface now extends to every 50 feet the line or plane goes up one in effect the runways Are now protected against any obstacle or development up to downtown is not affected because none of the approaches or departure Points on the runways Are Over the districts where tall buildings Are Likely to be runway which has an approach and departure Point on the Northwest of the has been Given added transitional surface because of proposed displacement and paralleling of run ways in that direction if expansion takes Spruston Spruston said the zone change does not affect any of the existing apart ment blocks along Portage Avenue Winnipeg International Airport has six runways numbered to indicate their direction and relationship to North at 360 runway 18 indicates aircraft Are taking off to the South and runway 36 is the reverse Active departure the Airport property covers about under such the govern ment would impose arbitration to break bargaining deadlocks Between companies and unionized workers seeking an initial contract and in of write the Premier Howard Pawley announced last week that the government has not decided whether to bring in the Legisla labor minister Vic Schroeder said yesterday that the decision will be made during a today Cabinet Retreat at Hecla Island this give us a Chance were going to be delivering it As quickly As Possi Schroeder its just a matter of getting our priorities straightened although Boeing worker Norbert Schneider admits Hes a Little Digap he says he still believes the nip will come its sort of disillusioning in a at first it was supposed to be before now its dragging into the next he i realize its going to take Dick president of the Mani Toba federation of said he found Hawleys weekend remarks Surpris adding that the Mil will request that the first contract legislation be implemented As soon As the next session Schroeder said he has asked his department to prepare draft legislation based on the British Columbia he said the new labor Law almost certainly will be introduced in either the first or the second Boeing and the workers plan to get Back to the bargaining table next monday and said Hemi International representative of the Auto workers crowns Case May hinge on finding victim by Tom Goldstein what has been touted by antiabortion groups As a landmark Case in their crusade May never go to trial because the Mother involved has Van i honestly dont know if i can proceed without senior Crown coun Sel Wayne Moshkowsky said yester its kind of difficult to proceed without a Mother stabbed a Canad wide warrant for the arrest of the Bernice has been in effect since the scheduled for preliminary hearing in Early involves the premature birth and death of a baby the child was born to Daniels on five Days after she had been stabbed in the the child was born three months prematurely and lived Only 19 an inquest was told in the 400gram infant was unable to survive because his lungs were not developed enough to sustain life on his Sandra of Sherbrook Street was charged with manslaughter after provincial judge Ian who supervised the ruled the child died As an indirect result of his mothers stomach the Winnipeg league for life has said the Case involves proving an Ille Gal and maintains abortion Falls into that the provincial at Torne generals department says the Case concerns whether a person has been killed through an unlawful act and insists it will have no significant Impact on the abortion Issue in Prince is currently on trial for Alleg edly stabbing the Mother in a main Street restaurant last new years she is charged with attempted wounding with intent and Possession of a weapon dangerous to the Public peace a she has pleaded not guilty to All Daniels disappearance and the difficulty the Crown has had in locating her came to Light yesterday after princes lawyer tried unsuccessfully to convince county court judge Gerald Jewers to postpone the trial until after a preliminary hearing on the manslaughter lawyer Barry Sinder argued that his client should be tried simultaneously on All including the manslaughter because they All arose from the same Prince was charged june 30 with the infants after she had been committed to stand trial for the assault on the Moth Sinder also maintained that Daniels presence during the current proceed Ings is important to his because the complainant May provide Evi Dence on issues such As provocation or gone underground he said he did not know until the Middle of last week that the Crown had not been Able to serve Daniels with a subpoena and that it would be proceeding without Crown prosecutor Peter Murdock told judge Jewers that apparently has changed her name and gone underground after her arrest in Alberta a few months she was released by a judge there before she could be returned to Murdock said police forces in both provinces have made every conceivable Effort to find the there is no reasonable expectation that she will be found at least not in the foreseeable he for All i she might be Murdock said he could proceed on the assault related charges without adding she did not testify at the preliminary hearing in the he said her absence at this time has weakened and worsened his i would very much like to have her Here if she was he id be calling her at the drop of a he said Daniels presence was required in the manslaughter it is hoped that she will be Able to be i dont know if the Crown will be Able to proceed in her he in an Moshkowsky said the search for Daniels would continue and that he would wait until about the time of the preliminary hearing to decide whether to judge Jewers denied sinders application for an adjournment saying there was no indication at this time that the manslaughter charge would Ever be stores May Cut hours by Manfred Jager several Hundred Par time super Market clerks and Cashiers could lose their jobs or have their weekly work shifts reduced Early next month As Canada Safeway limited and Domin Ion stores move to Shorter operating Bernard president of the Manitoba food and commercial work ers said yesterday his Union has very hard information that the super markets will soon announce they Are closing at 6 tuesdays and wednesdays As of store hours will remain unchanged for Friday and Christophe supermarket officials were not pre pared to confirm or deny the Union report yesterday but said store hours Are being or soon will be a lot depends on the of Brad Dominion stores Manitoba said when asked about the food workers Dominion stores operate 12 supermarkets in unaware of changes Larry Public relations director for Canada said he had not been informed about changes in operating hours by senior manage ment and so far is unaware of changes in operating Canada Safeway has 39 supermarkets in 30 in Christophe said he understands the operating hour reductions Are part of an economizing move by the chains to become More there Are members of our Union involved in Safeway and Domin Ion stores in this and Between and of them work part Christophe the compan ies have no Job Security obligations to speak of to the part timers As Long As they make sure that layoffs or reduction of work hours occur on the basis of parking prohibition put off to thursday enforcement of Winnipeg Over night parking bylaw has been postponed to thursday because of mild weather the bylaw prohibits parking on City streets for longer than one hour be tween 3 and 6 to facilitate Snow depending on weather its enforcement May again be mayor Bill Norrie has jury told Tribune review led to drop in business by Steve Pona the manager of Silver Heights restaurant in James told a civil jury yesterday his business dropped considerably after a bad review in the no defunct Winnipeg Tribune in de James whose family owned the restaurant at 2169 Portage told the jury he was upset by the general tone and Content of the which ran under the Silver Heights restaurant a disappoint said the publication of the review was followed by an immediate drop in which persisted until the following the restaurant is suing Southam press which published the trib until it was shut Down in for defamation and is claiming t unspecified also named As defendants Are former Tribune pub Lisher Wheatley and writer an Drew questioned by lawyer Rudolph an representing the Siwicki described the review As a bad badly badly written and half he told the six member jury he and his family took Pride in running a Nice restaurant in a residential area and have been in the same location since but he said a stranger Reading this article in our View would maybe stay out of the restaurants statement of claim alleges the read Waits natural and Ordinary implied the decor was cheap and and its meals Ana food were of poor it claims the review also implied the plaintiffs clientele were generally of Low character and were and a disturbance and Dis traction for any other prospective in the review said there were four Stout lads from the armed forces in the restaurant at the making a meal of chips and chatting up the As it noted two Secretary types rubbing their cigarettes out in the butter and an elderly she with Blue he with red the restaurants statement of claim contends the review was false and malicious and deprived the business of a number of potential customers and testifying during the first Day of the said nobody called him to cancel but he noticed quite a considerable drop in Revenue compared to previous weeks and he said it took until March for the figures to gradually return to nor under Cross examination by defence counsel Siwicki said the sales figures for the week following publication actually Rose per compared to the previous but he noted later that there is no Way of us knowing How much they should have been up they should have been up 25 to 30 per the statement of claim alleges Southam and the others published and printed the review to in crease the circulation of the and with a View to making a profit in newspaper sales and in the Sale of advertising the statement complained the re View implied the restaurant was in an unattractive and inappropriate Loca Tion and did not have the skill and capacity to provide the meals and food which it Anderson said one of the most Seri Ous allegations in the review was that the restaurant carried on business in an unsanitary fashion and that garbage was left to deteriorate and endanger the health and safety of Allentuck said in the review he found salad on the Kitchen heaps of Frozen everything waiting to be microwaved to and a not so faint smell of garbage lingering in the he said he had a terrible desire to leave and added that the Kitchen for be hard to much As i May everybody has the right to express their Anderson told the three three woman but it has to be based on True Anderson added he expected the Evi Dence will show the defendants were asked to apologize for the but for their Southam Wheatley and Allentuck denied in their statement of defence that the review was malicious and maintained that what it said about the restaurant was True in substance and in the defendants also denied the re View disparaged the Silver Heights or that its reputation has been much injured by or that it suffered the alleged they said they were under a Legal and or social and or moral duty to publish the review and the readers of the Winnipeg Tribune had a like duty and or interest to receive the trial i
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