Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 3, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press october 1985 Page 3 assailant jailed arson trial jury logs More time pair get weekend jail terms attempted to rape mute woman two Winnipeg men were sentenced to weekend jail terms yester Day for attempting to rape a deaf mute Robert received a 90 Day sentence to be served on consecutive weekends beginning John Edward received a 30day term to be served on consecutive weekends beginning the same both men had pleaded not guilty to sexual but were convicted after a today Manitoba court of Queens Bench in passing Justice Sidney Schwartz said although the assault was not As serious a sexual assault As is commonly heard in these it nonetheless warranted some period of he said he was taking into account the incident appears to have had Only a slight Impact on the judge Schwartz said he was allow ing them to serve their terms on weekends so they could continue to work and support their wives and he noted a had no previous criminal convict a had one conviction for a driving he said people think weekend time is weekend time is not the least bit he said persons serving weekend jail sentences must serve their full unlike those serving regular jail they Are not entitled to remission he said it will take Baxter about 10 months to Complete his All he has to look Forward to each week for the next 10 months Are five Days of work and two Days of the judge the charge stemmed from an Inci Dent in which the two men met the complainant in a Portage Avenue drove her to a and Baxter attempted to rape although Mcpike did not take part in the attempted judge Schwartz ruled he was a party to the the woman testified that Mcpike helped Baxter remove some of her clothing and then stood outside the hotel room court was told that during her struggle with Baxter the woman the Motel owners heard her and called police arrested the pair at the defence lawyers Jay Prober and Ralph Neuman had urged judge Schwartz to acquit the two arguing the evidence of the complainant was they noted that she admitted to being drunk and said she remember a great Deal of what they also noted that both men claimed she had consented to having but judge Schwartz said he believed the complainants version of events Over that of the he said the evidence of the Motel owners corroborated her evidence on a number of the court must demonstrate that women Are entitled to the Protection of the and Are entitled to go to bars and to get drunk without being interfered with by the judge he said the message has to be brought Home that sex offenders can expect to go to jail if caught and 900raffle tickets lifted from Auto officials with the Charleswood knights of Columbus Are warning the Public not to Purchase any or Ange coloured Grey cup raffle tickets bearing the groups name and the tickets were stolen tuesday night while the member responsible for distributing the by was visiting a Friend at the Charleswood flood said 900 the second series of tickets in the fall were stolen from his was parked in the legion Park ing lot for about Twenty flood i came out and my car window had been missing was a Box containing the he Charleswood knights of Columbus grand Knight pick Jones said the loss of the tickets will Cut into the groups at the very were going to have to pay about in Ken former grand the Money raised from the ticket raffle was going to be donated to he Jones said the tickets were in of each marked one to local Hospital renovations delay xray delivery Long end of the stick sweep softly and carry a big stick might Well be the motto of Antonio Frias who smooths the wet Concrete pavement on Portage reconstruction of the Street is to Complete in a couple delivery of a much needed Mil lion Dollar xray machine to the health sciences Centre has been postponed because renovations Nec Essary to accommodate it remain Ian hocs head of said other specialized medical equipment remains crated in storage for the same Sutherland said the computer tomography scanner will probably be in operation next Spring or a year later than its scheduled Start up officials said in january the equipment would be installed this past it was to replace a machine which has been working up to 18 hours a Day to keep up with some 700 to 800 people Are on a fourth six week waiting list for the a which often Breaks nobody Happy about Sutherland its a Point of concern for All of he said the Hospital is asking the German company to delay Deli very of the it the recognized by Doc tors As an invaluable medical de can show the exact size and location of blood brain abnormalities and other Tom administrator of the general Hospital where the new machine is to be said yesterday renovations Are under he said he didst know How Long the project would take to its a Complex process and we Are renovating an existing he noting the scanners planned location has a Low ceiling which involves More construction Sutherland would not say How Many times the old Hsc scanner has broken Down in recent it needs a lot of tender Loving the breakdowns mean Many from outside the must often be rescheduled and make a second trip for the statistics show there should be one machine for every with slightly More than one has two it both in the Twoy Earold machine at Boniface general Hospi Tal has a waiting list of about two mainly because doctors pre Fer its reliability Over that of the old Hsc Sutherland said that while the Hsc and Manitoba health services com Mission consider the installation of the new machine a the delay is in to the lengthy internal process involved in gaining approval for the As he said other equip ment for a new angiography suite specialized rays for blood ves arrived but remains in crates because the area where it is to be installed is not renovations to accommodate the new suite and the it scanner Are expected to Cost about Sutherland physicians in Brandon have complained to the government that a it scanner should be installed at bran Don general Hospital to provide the service for people in Western Mani which has a smaller population than recently announced it plans to order six new a seventh one May also be ordered for that prov inces cancer fear protects court told labor split Over Cabinet crossing Legal picket line by Tom Goldstein Manitoba labor leaders say they believe politicians should respect Legal picket but Are divided on whether nip Cabinet ministers were wrong to Cross lines at the legislative building set up by strik ing government i dont think anybody with a Good conscience would Cross a picket Gerry president of the Manitoba provincial Council of said a number of nip Cabinet minis ters including Deputy Premier Muriel Smith and finance minister Vic Schroeder crossed a picket line monday by striking members of the organization of professional engineers employed by the province of Premier Howard Pawley had said he also would Cross the engineers but didst go to work monday because of Pawley who changed airlines to attend a recent premiers Confer ence in Saint rather than Cross pickets set up by striking air Canada flight attendants said he considered the engineers action to be a demonstration rather than a picket Wilf president of the Manitoba federation of which actively supports the agreed with Hawleys he said the ministers did nothing wrong by ignoring the picket line on the Way to their in to people crossing picket lines if people Are picketing their place of Hudson the legislative building is not on Paul president of the Winnipeg labor agreed the distinction should be he noted that when the Council demonstrated outside Eaton earlier this the intent was not to prevent people from entering the store but to ask them not to shop but Bentley said he saw no distinction in the types of picket i dont think anybody should Cross any picket he the provincial Council is affiliated with the Canadian federation of formed four years ago after International building Trade unions split with the Canadian labor con both the Manitoba federation of labor and the cites labor Council Are affiliated with the who called for Union sup port of the nip during the recent Mil said organized labor has Learned to accept that there is a difference Between the party and the nip the process of government has to and i would assume they would do the same thing Cross picket lines if they the pickets were employees working in the he while moist said he might Perso Nally be opposed to crossing picket he could see the ministers Point of Jon president of the professional engineers also said he was not surprised the minis ters crossed the picket i think that what they would do and should Stefanson there on the management we would find it very strange if they didst Cross the that would indicate they support our to but Darrell Arnold of the rail Canada traffic controllers said elected officials should respect Legal picket lines under any Circum Arnold said the government should go to court if it wants a Legal picket line victims of biker violence wont even admit to being intimidated into a court was told Winnipeg police Graham la grandeur said members of the los bravos motorcycle club get away with obstructing Justice for the same reason they elude other criminal prosecutions because their Vic Tims Are afraid to Lagrandeur was responding to a Challenge by los bravos lawyer Greg Brodsky to prove his claim police investigations Are aborted be cause victims wont i was showing the court a Pat Lagrandeur if some one will not come Forward to its charge Case it on Many people will say its the los in Ive talked to Many people that Are physically afraid of the los Lagrandeur said the refusals leave him with no Way of proving either that club members committed acts of violence or that victims silence was due to How do i get them witnesses into court he in not Mandrake the in other such As the 1983 bombing of a motorcycle la grandeur said police cannot prove the los bravos were but he noted members had been feuding with the shops in not saying they were respond but i often he there not the Vienna boys Lagrandeur said from his experience monitoring los bravos since May 1980 he believes club members aim to profit from crime and feel they must Arm themselves for Protection against members of a rival the silent Lagrandeur was testifying at the second Day of a hearing into a Crown application to confiscate and dispose of weapons seized in june 25 police raids on 16 biker the Crown is also seeking orders prohibiting 30 club members and female associates from possessing ammunition or explosives for up to five police also seized weapons from the silent riders in the hear Ings for them begin Winnipeg police Douglas a motorcycle gang in said los bravos Mem Bers Are suspected of bombing the silent riders Washington Avenue clubhouse on the riders Are suspected of retaliating 24 by bombing three los bravos residences and a business in which club Vic president David Robert Boyko is he no arrests have been made in these or in the july 1984 shooting death of Ron a silent Mccorrister Mccorrister cited four violent clashes involving members of the two clubs so far this year d los bravos member Stanley Harold Potter was assaulted by three silent police observed gunshot wounds to his hand and thigh but Potter would not discuss the baseball bats a silent rider was set upon by three men armed with baseball bats but would not talk to d a report of shots being fired led to the discovery of Bullet Marks in a silent rider d on june the Day of the weapons a fight broke out on the Steps of the ramp building Between Mem Bers of the two clubs who had been picked up in the during an earlier May 21 police officers found a 12gauge Shotgun hidden in a Wall of the los bravos clubhouse on Dufferin he As he said los bravos Mem including held a lengthy meeting in january at a Winnipeg hotel with two members of the Hells Angels from staff Paul an ramp weapons described 19 weapons seized in the june they included semiautomatic restricted revolvers and two prohibited Spring loaded Tomilon said the some of them modified for would be of Little use in Hunt ing or target he said Many of them were designed for police riot control or military combat dogs ruled ordered killed owner bursts into tears in court by Bob Cox a judge order the destruction of two dogs yesterday after a court heard the animals had attacked four including an elderly woman who required Hospital the hardest part will be telling my two children about said Chris who wept when her family Foury Earold German Shepherd was Given the death sen tence by provincial judge Frank she said the had been a playmate for her and 14 those kids could crawl on pull his do anything and Treyve never had a among other Duke was accused of chasing a 10yearold boy until the child was forced to hide under a truck for judge Allen ordered Duke Des troyed based on its attacks on the a Telephone installer and a Young the judge ordered a five year old crossbreed Des troyed after hearing details of an unprovoked attack on a woman out for an evening the dogs Clara said she was walking by Simons Home on Garfield Street about 22 when the dog jumped from its front Yard Over a one metre High Fence and bit her thighs and she said it bit into one leg and Hung on so tenaciously it nearly knocked her to the who was taken to suffered cuts on her leg and thigh which became she said she still feels pain in a leg and owner Leona Houle said the dog had never attacked anyone else and rarely wandered from though City Pound records show it had been at Large Houle said three children were playing with Simon before the at tack and the dog must have be come we Felt that he was excited from playing with the Ball and that the Only explanation we can she it was a Surprise to didst Stop judge Allen said his concern was the attack was unprovoked As Dyck had done nothing to frighten the dog or threaten its owners or do in the Case of judge Allen said the dog was a potential danger because of its three court was told Duke first bit a Telephone installer Douglas Hearty said he went to Patterson Kinder Avenue House to pick up some equipment and Duke rushed out the door when Patterson opened German Shepherd Duke ordered killed after he said his legs were bitten and he was knocked to the despite his attempts to punch and shake off the the dog didst Stop attacking until the woman grabbed Hearty Heather said she was delivering a flyer to the Home 25 when Duke came out of the chased her and bit her Troy a nextdoor said he was outside 23 when Duke chased him and bit his left the next Smith the dog was on a Chain at the but it pulled the chains Anchor from the ground and chased forcing him to hide under a Patterson disputed Smiths saying the dog was not near the truck which the boy was ing beside when she came upon the she also said Duke Only attacked Hearty after the Man raised his Boot at the both Duke and Simon will be held for 30 Days before the destruction in Case the owners decide to a Pound official ;