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1953 Update

Archive - 1953

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DATE
VICTIM
ACCUSED CHARGE/SENTENCELOCATION
01
1953.05.09
OSADCHUK, John (33)
PILON, Frank (26)
Charge Manslaughter
Dismissed
Insufficient Evidence
Beer Parlor
Pacific and Princess
Winnipeg
02



Charge Manslaughter

03



Charge Manslaughter

04



Charge Manslaughter


1953.08.09
ROSS, Jane
DORION, Arthur



1953.08.17
WILSON, Jens
WILSON, Gust



1953.08.27
LA QUETTE,  John E.
LA QUETTE, Mary



1953.12.08
EDMUNDS, Katherine M.
EDMUNDS, Lorenzo


Incident count complete (Winnipeg - 04).

"Murder does not appear in the annual report of Police Chief Robert Taft. The report released Friday, says 1953 was Winnipeg's first murder-free years since the start of the Second Great War. There were four cases of manslaughter."

April 17, 1954 article in the Calgary Herald.

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