Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 4, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press 1987 Page 3 University students seek Man accused of kitting his Mother outraged when child Dies in care of Foster parents by John Soufflas she said she was never told of her court this week in an attempt to cause of death As Eam Tho family by John Douglas a Mother accused of not properly caring for her son is outraged that he died of sudden infant death syn drome six weeks after being taken by child and family Wanda Lawrence said she was horrified told that her three month old had died suddenly March 28 while in the care of provincial she said she was never told of her loss by family services and Only found out the next Day through the 1 still cant get Over she i saw Steven just the Day before he died and he was healthy and didst look sick at they took him because they said i care for him properly and now Hes Lawrence was to have appeared in court this week in an attempt to regain custody of the she is seeking a Legal opinion to see if action is possible against the government and Foster after being placed in the care of a Foster the infant was found dead in his crib last saturday when the Foster Mother tried to Wake him for a an autopsy by the chief medical examiners office listed the official cause of death As unemployed Lawrence said the child was taken from her shortly after she left the Linwood Centre for unwed mothers where the Agency had placed her until she completed a parenting she said child and family ser vices took the child based on two reports from the Hospital and the Centre that claimed she ignored the child and showed Little interest in Lawrence said the Agency had warned her not to leave the Centre or it would take the but she said because she didst know anyone she left thinking she cow care for him better in her own but that just not 1 left the Centre to go Back to my own Home to take care of they took him right Dennis executive director of the Central child and juggling act Jamie Laker left and Robin Chestnut display nimble hand work part of the Radisson school juggling members of the team will yesterday at Polo Park As they juggle balls and Square they Are take part in the Winnipeg juggling festival april 10 and brother sister freed in slaying manslaughter verdict returned in brutal stabbing of Man in downtown apartment by Dan Lett a brother and sister charged with second degree murder parted silently yesterday As the woman was freed and the Man remained in Cus Tody pending sentencing for Man Glen Garnet and his sister Alice Anne were charged with the brutal april 1986 slaying of Emil of 269 Young lesser charge a court of Queens Bench jury acquitted Kren of All charges but convicted Moar of the lesser charge of the two sat beside each other in the prisoners expressionless As the Jurys verdict was Jeff representing said both he and his client were relieved at the its exactly what we asked Gindin it would have been a real tragedy to Send this woman to being a single Mother with three Sheldon representing said his client was also relieved at the lesser manslaughter he Moar is pretty Happy with the Pinx several of Rudzis who had attended the refused com ment on the Moar and Kren were arrested five Days after Rudzis body was disco Vered in his ransacked the Walls and floor splattered with blood and a knife still in one of his the Crown said Rydzik suffered 44 Stab Crown attorney Don in his summary to the eight Man argued there was enough evidence against the two for second degree murder convict Melnyk told jurors the Circum Stantial evidence proved Moar and Kren worked in concert to Over pow woman Dies after House ransacked by Murray Mcneil an elderly Winnipeg woman who suffered a heart attack last week when an intruder forced his Way into her House has died in Marion of 575 Jessie died wednesday at the Misericordia a Winnipeg police spokesman said yesterday it is not yet known whether Owens death was directly related to the heart so for the time being it is being classified As a suspicious Peter Manitoba chief medical said yester Day an autopsy was completed but it will be about a week before the exact cause of death is it depends on a microscopic examination of tissues to see if it was a heart Markesteyn Owens suffered the attack after a Man forced his Way into her Home March showed her onto a pulled the Telephone from the Wall and ransacked the called neighbors police said she later ran outside and called neighbors for she was taken to Hospital in critical although her status was later upgraded to although nothing was taken from the police believe robbery was the the police spokesman said yester Day the intruder has not been local an acquaintance of who asked not to be said she moved into the Whit and Blue Bungalow on Jessie about two years she lived he her Only relative in Winnipeg was a although she had a daughter and other nieces living she was elderly and had a hard time getting the Man so she Early left the but she was a Sweet old very he usually old they get very but she was a person who could take a joke and give a he a Young lady in an old that what she its a sad he or and slay he said the number and violent nature of the wounds indicated that More than one assailant performed the Melnyk disputed a primary de Fence argument that both the accused were too drunk to have formed the intent to Melnyk said both knew what they were doing the night of the too drunk but Gindin said Kren was too drunk after an evening of bar hop Ping to have taken Only a few blood drops on the left sleeve of her windbreaker were he Mars entered As Evi was covered in blood and the Interior of the Bachelor apartment was splattered Pinx argued that charges against his client should be reduced to Man Slaughter from second degree Mur Der because Moar was so intoxicated on valium and marijuana that it was impossible for him to form the intent required for second degree Justice Theodore Glowacki will sentence Moar april Quick trip to court startles passersby the last thing Tony Leonard expected yesterday was to follow in his wife barbaras but at the Manitoba Telephone system employee found himself in the same a candidate for the same As his wife was a Day Leonard was among 50 people plucked from City streets for Possi ble jury he said his wife was among jury candidates not chosen on thursday so he knew sheriffs officers were looking for potential i never expected i would walk Down into the Triec building con course and get he he said deputies approached him As he was walking Back to his office at and told him to report to court by 10 he joked that he then warned other family members who work downtown to be on the Lookout for badge waving wander Ive already called my wife and told my daughters not to he adding coworkers also were keeping to their some that would have gone Down to the concourse made arrangements not to go to the con he but Leonard want chosen to be part of the six woman jury for a first degree murder trial in Manitoba court of Queens his summoned for jury duty three weeks ago by was among the original 72member panel of candidates exhausted Dur ing the first Day of with five jurors still to sheriffs officers got another 50 rember panel by serving sum Monses on downtown streets and in malls yesterday sheriff Anthony Toonstra he said there were no difficult we dont get too Many people who Are Toonstra they May not like but they dont say too people summonsed but not selected to the jury said they were on their Way to and even the washroom when Apas soon As 1 saw the sheriffs badge i suspected that was what it said Bruce who was walking to work past the Post office on Graham i didst know they were out seminar Janice Johannson and insurance company coworker Shirley linger were waiting for a seminar to begin at the Holiday inn when they got a far from being upset at the they said they Learned a lot from the Brief courtroom its very Johans son its a real learning exp i think i got More out of this than i would have gotten out of the people nervously clutched paper summonses before court and Many flashed smiles and breathed sighs of Relief As they left the courtroom without being selected for the Justice Wallace Darichuk excused 10 including one of his people with out of town trips a woman who said she knew the a Man whose wife is expecting a baby and a University student with forthcoming the trial is expected to last four family service refused to comment on the Case except to say the child was in the Agency care when it died of crib he said neither the Foster family or the Agency could have prevented the Sld kills three out of every babies bom in it usually strikes babies Between the Ages of two and four months and More often the infants come from lower socioeconomic jury hears of plot Crown says killers thought victim ratted by Bob Cox two Winnipeg men arrested on drug charges last september arranged the killing of a Man after mistakenly identifying him As a police a jury heard yester the Stanley Frank Ostrows and Zdzislaw Jim were arrested in september on cocaine trafficking charges and they decided someone must have in formed on Crown attorney George Dangerfield he said Ostrowski decided Robert Duane was the informant responsible for their and arranged for him to be Dangerfield the Crown contends Ostrowski was mis taken in identifying Nieman As an Luzny Jose Luis have pleaded not guilty in Manitoba court of Queens Bench to first degree murder in the shoot ing death of Nieman last in an opening address to jurors in which he outlined what the Crown expects to prove in the Dan Gerfield said a witness will testify Ostrowski admitted during a conversation to arranging the exec Dangerfield said the Matthew is expected to quote Ostrowski As saying i know who ratted on its Robby Nie remember that gun i Well i gave it to some of jims friends and Hes who transported drugs Between Winnipeg and Montreal for is expected to say Ostrowski then put a Finger to his head to simulate a Dangerfield he said Ostrowski gave a gun to Luzny who hired Robert Louis Dunkley to Nieman in return for some forgiveness of a drug debt and a Chance to become a drug trafficker enlisted Driver Dunkley enlisted the help of Cor Reia who was his Driver on illegal drug runs while his own Drivers licence was Dangerfield Correia was to be forgiven a drug debt for his the Crown he told jurors they will hear from Dunkley who shot Nieman once in the Eye and twice in the Mouth area at his Kinder Avenue Nieman died about a month later in Dangerfield he said Dunkley and Correia were waiting in the apartment for Nie he said they arrived while Nieman was out and tied up his female roommates the left bound and gagged in a escaped while Dunkley was shooting Dan Gerfield later Dunkley met Luzny in a bar and then at a was paid disposed of the gun and headed to Brandon with his wife to establish an Dangerfield he warned jurors to be cautions about accepting testimony from some of the witnesses and to look for other evidence to support what they be very careful of witnesses such As Dunkley and Lovelace and anyone else who has a criminal Dangerfield you must be sure you can rely on these Lovelace still faces criminal charges and jurors might think he is giving a certain sort of evidence to save Dangerfield he said Dunkley was allowed to plead guilty to a reduced charge of second degree murder in return for helping the he said Dunkley has been sentenced to life in prison with no parole eligibility for 20 jurors will begin hearing evidence monday afternoon before or jus Tice Wallace ;