Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 20, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 saturday free september Happy or he made us laugh i think that deep were All a Bunch of you putting on a Happy face for the world because life the ultimate show must go t was reminded of that this week when comedian red Skelton died at the age of like most of was a Complex except he made millions of dollars playing the what kind of Man was he really his unauthorized biographer grouch Marxs Arthur Marx described Skelton As a lonely Man who trusted no for More than 20 he would get up every morning and write a love letter to his in when he divorced two years at age he married a 35yearold and began writing to her every How could a Man who wrote daily love letters to his who had so much Money and made so Many people be so unhappy maybe it had something to do with his father dying before he was and red going to work with a medi Cine show when he was Only but my guess is it also had some thing to do with a 40yearold Blacka Edwhite photograph that a free press found in the files Skelton is posing with two Freck defaced children and one of those old Felt pennants emblazoned with the words and a Canada Goose in the Chil Dren Are his then and his they had touched Down in Winnipeg for in route from Chicago to via the Polar red Skelton had decided to take his son to see the the boy had been diagnosed with Back in chances of surviving childhood leukaemia were next Gordon Sinclair Winnipeg free press pie photo red Skelton with and on july but shortly after Skelton Cut Short the trip returned to the United he was a newspaper reporter in London had accused him of using his sons illness As a publicity Skelton angrily denied the he i dont believe my son is going to Richard died the following 1 believe that Good comes out of even tragedy such As red Skelton said at the maybe the world will know now that this disease must be in the survival rate for children stricken with leukaemia is 75 to 80 per red Skelton would go on to give generously to childrens judging by his Library clipping he never spoke publicly about his son the closest he came was during an interview 10 years he recalled that during a performance one night he noticed a Man in the audience who had just been sitting with his arms Skelton went up to him after the show and the Man thanked him for a wonderful really Skelton then the Man said that his son had died recently and that the boy had mentioned Skelton with his dying you the boy that red Skelton must be a funny Skelton was touched and every time i see someone in the audience with their arms he i think of that Little As it turned the Little boy was red Skelton was a funny to doctors had Given Young Richard three months to the family had already been to and new York where Young Richard had driven a train through the Yards at grand Central station and run an elevator to the Tower floor of the Empire state now they were off to while their plane was being Refu Elled in Winnipeg that summer Day 40 years Richard got off in Hopes of seeing a real mountie in a real red there were no but just As the plane was about to take off one showed Lawrence Pearson want wearing his red but the big mountie boarded the plane and spoke to the redheaded Little boy listened in free press reporter Frank Morris and held a coloured picture of a Moun tie in full uniform Riding a red Skelton has Given some memorable performances in his Morris but none More magnificent than the one he was giving tuesday More than once his eyes filled with tears As he but to Richard he was a fond father taking his family on an exciting the skeletons would go on to visit France and where in search of a Miracle Richard would be blessed by Pope Pius accused killer robbed victim years earlier it was a place he had done sister by Laifi Jannert Law courts reporter Donald Rene Souire decided to Rob Walter Futch because he had done it before and knew the elderly Man kept a lot of Money in his a witness testified yes on the night Futch was Theresa sister of the told court she heard her brother talk ing to co accused Michael Vince about where they could get Money to buy More alcohol for their he Souire said it was a place he had done robbed when he was a she As she choked Back that time he had got caught and had to give the Money he said this time he want going to get Theresa Souire also testified she heard the two men leave the House and return a while her brother came into her room and began rifling through her clothes to find a she i asked them How much they she he told me to shut up and go Back to that it was basically none of my he left for me to buy something for my Daugh he said the less 1 the bet the Young who struggled to maintain her composure throughout the said she asked her brother exactly what had happened at Futchs i asked him Pointblank if he killed she he said no 1 didst i dont think tinder Cross examination by defence lawyer Greg Theresa Souire said she knew her brother had been involved with the Law in the bilt she didst think he or Vince was Capa ble of killing the elderly Inwood Resi there want supposed to be a con she 1 dont believe they had any intention of hurting Wal Ter they Are not coldblooded something happened that went wrong i cant give you an explanation for Theresa Souire described her brother As a heavy Drinker who was extremely drunk the night of the slay Souire and Vince face charges of second degree murder and in the death of both men also face break and enter and robbery Justice Aubrey Hirschfield excused on juror reducing the num Ber on the panel to 11 the Rea sons for the move cannot be released until after the which continues Slapper ordered to pay staff a Young woman who was slapped across the face during a bar fight is entitled to from her a court ruled this in his Justice Peter Morse said Connie Semenchuk has suffered ongoing jaw and dental problems As a result of the assault and eventually had to undergo surgery to 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