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[Welland Telegraph, 10 July 1891]
On Tuesday Mr. hemming was summoned before Police Magistrate Hellems for neglecting to notify the inspector of anatomy of deaths occurring at the Industrial Home, and judgment was reserved until Saturday to allow the defendant’s attorney to argue the case. There is a statutory regulation which enacts that keepers of public institutions must notify the inspector of deaths occurring on the premises under their charge, and in most cases the bodies are sent to a medical school. The Welland county council and Warden Macklem contend that the Industrial Home is not a public institution in the sense implied by the statute, and it was on the warden’s instructions that Mr. Hemming neglected to notify the inspector, The ultimate decision in this case may set the matter at rest as to which is the right interpretation of the law.
[Welland Telegraph, 22 May 1891]
Mrs. Christina Doan figured as complaint in a trespass case before the police magistrate on Tuesday. The defendant was her brother-in-law, and the offence consisted of tying his horse on a vacant lot. The case was dismissed, and the complainant, disappointed at the result muttered something about breaking some person’s head.
J.V. Taylor Charged with Raising a $5.00 Note to $35.00
[Welland Telegraph, 13 November 1891]
J.V. Taylor, of Toronto, finds himself just now in a nonviable position behind the bars of the county jail, charged with raising a $5 promissory note to $35.
Taylor is a respectable looking man and is wither innocent of the alleged crime or a good actor. His is highly incensed at what he says is a high handed outrage, and confidently asserts his ability to prove his innocence, when, if successful, he contemplates making some one perspire profusely for making him suffer such an indignity. He will come before his honor Judge Baxter next Wednesday and have the opportunity of saving his reputation.
Taylor has been selling a patent right to a harrow tooth manufactured by Taylor & Judd, Esplanade street, Toronto, and a short time ago made a sale to one Plato, of Fort Erie, taking a note in payment. Last week he endeavored to sell Plato’s note of $35 to Mr. Hawkins, of that village, but making the purchase and after obtaining Taylor’s reluctant consent to take $30 for the paper sent out ostensibly to get the money, but his messenger went to Plato to make inquiries concerning the note.
Plato declared he had given a note for $5 only, being for one set of the harrow teeth instead of $35 for seven sets. In the meantime Taylor left the village and on Friday morning was arrested at Niagara Falls by officer McMicking on a telegram from police officer Griffin. He was given a hearing and committed for trial.
[Welland Telegraph, 17 April 1891]
Division Court Inspector Dickey, of Toronto, was here yesterday and made a final investigation of the charges preferred against the court clerk, G.L. Hobson, by his political enemies. The inspector dismissed every charge as frivolous and expressed satisfaction with Mr. Hobson’s management of the office. Mr. German was present on behalf of the charges, but offered no evidence to sustain them.
[Welland Tribune, 24 January 1908]
Just as the Christmas spirit was in the air, a well-known town official met a man who takes orders for enlarged pictures. The traveler’s name was Shibley, and he represented a Toronto house. Now Shibley had the gift of gab and could carry on a continuous conversation for five minutes or an hour. He was a hummer, and after about fifteen minutes gabfest, the town official’s signature was on the contract.
“Delivery by December 5th,” was what the papers called for.
“Tempus fugit,” and it was not till the other day that the official, now in gilt and under the arm of the agent, was suddenly sprung upon the wife as she opened the door.
It was claimed, so it is said, that the delivery was too late, the picture might resemble our aged ancestors who sprung from their tails in the trees, and then there were other objections.
This aroused the ire of Shibley as the refusal to give Calver a nip, roused his fighting blood, in a story appearing below.
What Sibley said to the wife was picturesque and to the point. It cost him $5.75 at Wednesday’s court.
L. Calver demanded something stimulating on the fourth of January last. He was at the Dexter House bar. “Nothing doing,” said the wine clerk.
“Watchamatter?”
“I tell you there’s nothing doing; you’re too full now.”
This aroused Mr. Calver’s choler, and he explained that he was a man of skill with the mitts, that he preferred to fight rather than eat. He could lick his weight in wild cats.
“Now get,” said the barkeep, smiling, as he wiped a glass.
“Ahgwaan.”
Then Calver was taken gently by the seat of his pants, and the coat collar and placed under the twinkling stars on his posterior.
But Calver was of fighting mood.
“Lemeatim.’
These words mean that the gentleman wished to enter the hostelry and do battle.
Chief Jones came along and advised the scrapper to go home.
“Ahgwaan.”
This was his undoing, and for this, Mr. Calver, who, by the way, is a very decent chap,paid in Wednesday morning’s court $5.00 and costs for refusing to leave a licensed house when under the influence of liquor.
The fine was paid.
He did not get his scrapping booze at the Dexter House.
The warrant for arrest sworn out by Henry Farmer before Magistrate Burgar, says that Peter English took Mr. Farmer’s overcoat and a suit of underwear. But this is not all. The said Farmer swears that, to the best of his knowledge and belief, Mr. English also appropriated an Independent Order of Forrester pin. The alleged theft was committed on Tuesday, and on Wednesday afternoon Chief Jones was notified that he was arrested in St. Catharines. The chief had advised the authorities of St. Kitts to be on the lookout for the red man, for English is an Indian, and so is Farmer.
English was dismissed. It was because he was drunk that the clothes were taken. “You must keep sober in future,” was the warning parting of the magistrate.
Her Reported Death Bed Confession of Complicity in the Murder
The Terrible Story-Mrs. Quigley is Alleged to have Told her Mother-
She Helped Day Throw his Wife Over the Precipice.
(Buffalo Courier)
[Welland Telegraph, 27 March 1891]
On the 18th day of last December Arthur Hoyt Day was hanged at Welland, Ont., for the murder of his wife Desire, whom he pushed over the high bank at the Canada side of the river at Niagara Falls. He maintained an air of bravado to the last, and also to the last declared his innocence of the crime. A witness at the trial was his sister, Mrs. Quigley, of Rochester, who accompanied Day and his wife to the scene of the tragedy. Interest in the case was revised here by the publication in Friday morning’s papers of a dispatch from Rochester saying that Mrs. Quigley was dead, and that in her dying hours she confessed that she assisted her brother in the murder, and was equally guilty with him. Later reports quoted Mrs. Quigley’s mother as denying that such a confession was made. The Democrat and Chronicle of Friday had a long chapter on the case, from which some parts may be republished as interesting.
That paper says that Mrs. Day, the mother of the executed man and of Mrs. Quigley, confided the fact and details of her daughter’s confession “to a gentleman whose veracity is unquestioned and whose name will be announced if necessary.” She told him this:
“Mary kept moaning and tossing all the morning and kept looking at one spot on the wall opposite the bed. She would look at this spot half an hour at a time without taking her eyes off it. I asked her what she was looking at and she said that she could see Arthur there, and then all of a sudden she burst out crying and said: “Oh, mother, I have got something on my mind that I must tell you.”
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The Case Before the Kadi- The Persecuted Joel Reluctant to Testify Against his Loving Wife, who Shed Copious Tears During the Examination-Fined for Carrying Deadly Weapons.
[Welland Telegraph, 15 May 1891]
On Thursday of last week the domestic harmony of Mr. Joel Doan’s life was subjected to another periodical disturbance, and the wife of his bosom proceeded to execute summary chastisement upon her liege lord for misdemeanors both real and imaginary. Joel had been gazing lovingly upon the lager as it foamed over the top of the shuper, and in consequence, according to Mrs. Doan’s ideas, was incapacitated for his routine of duty. Mrs. Doan also had grave suspicions that her husband was bestowing too much affection upon another woman. Being a woman of some spirit and possessing the faculty of getting down to business without any prefactory nonsense, she vowed eternal vengeance upon the frail Joel and the seductive siren who was basking in the sunshine of his smiles. Now it is pretty well known that when Mrs. D starts out on a mission of this kind she is very apt to make things interesting, and once the vials of her wrath are uncorked a hale of blue atmosphere, suggestive of brimstone, is easily imagined to surround her. About noon on the day in question Joel was in the Frazer House when the enemy approached, who with a sting of language not authorized by Webster, pounced upon him, slapped his face and clutched his fat pocket book, which she consigned to her own pocket. She pelted him with stones, uttered dire threats of terrible vengeance, and upbraided him with all the wrongs in the calendar. Joel finally escaped but during the afternoon she found him at a home on Division street where she was denied admittance, and received with a pail of warm water. She had secured a revolver and when the truant husband appeared this was discharged, which action led to her arrest on complaint of her son Benjamin. She gave bail to appear on Monday, when she came before Police Magistrate Hellems, charged with “unlawfully and feloniously shooting with the intent to do grievous bodily harm on Joel Doan.
The court was called at 10 o’clock, but it was 10.35 when the defendant put in an appearance followed by a few whom she had secured to testify in her defence. She was somewhat disappointed when told that her witnesses could not be called and that the court could only take such evidence as offered by the crown, but that she might be represented by counsel. She inquired for Mr. German but he being away she went after Mr. Harcourt, and not securing his services hunted up Mr. L.C. Raymond.
The defence elected for summary trial, but the Court would not decide until the evidence was heard, as it might be of such a nature that would necessitate commitment to trial.
Several witnesses testified to hearing Mrs. Doan threaten to shoot, and seeing her with a revolver. Her son had seen her running about Geo. Minor’s house and threatening if her husband did not come out “to bore him clean through;” he had seen his father afterwards and took him to the City hotel and washed the blood off his face, but did not see the shooting.
Joel Doan, the man alleged to have been shot, was very reluctant to testify, and treated the matter as a joke, saying he guessed his wife only wanted to scare him.
On his evidence the prosecution broke down and had no case to go on with, but the Court felt inclined to take action on the statute regarding the carrying of firearms. He gave the defendant quite a lecture and strongly advised her to guard her word in future. He dismissed the charge of shooting with intent and reserved his judgement on the matter respecting the carrying of fire arms until Wednesday when he imposed a fine of $20 and costs.
During the progress of the examination Mrs. Doan wept copious tears of sorrow and repentance and her sobs echoed through the court room like the plaintive wail of injured innocence.
[Related TALE: JOEL CLARK DOAN]
[Welland Telegraph, 15 May 1891]
Major L. Clarke Raymond is certainly a very fortunate barrister, as all the cases that he has had before the courts during the present month has been decided in his favor. On Monday the case of J. Macdonald & Co., of Toronto, vs A.E. White et al, was decided in favor of the defendants, who were represented by the Major. On Wednesday the case Bradt vs Maines, a dispute as to occupancy of a store, was settled in favor of plaintiff, and the case of Regina vs Howell, of International Bridge, was discharged. In the matter of Scotty Jackson vs James Spain, for keeping a $10 note, the property of Jackson, a verdict was given in favor of the plaintiff. In each of the cases Mr. Raymond represented the winning side. The case of Howell was certainly a cruel one. The man was arrested in May for stealing a horse blanket on the 1st January from Mr. I.H. Allan, of International Bridge, whilst in a drunken stupor. Upon returning the same to Mr. Allan and getting his seal cap which he had left behind the matter was forgotten, until election time, when a row took place between Spain and Jackson in the latter’s store where Howell is employed, and because of Howell being a witness to Spain taking Jackson’s $10 bill, some evil disposed person worked up the case of stealing against Howell, who was committed by Magistrate Hill and dis-charged by Judge Baxter.
St. Catharines Woman His Second Affinity
His First Wife Well-known in Welland, Now Resides at the Soo.
[Welland Telegraph, 23 January 1912]
Arrested by the police on a charge of bigamy on Friday afternoon, Daniel Sayers, a man sixty-five years of age, living in the sixth ward, plead guilty to the charge when taken before the police magistrate in St. Catharines.
Sayers has a wife living at the Canadian Soo, and, according to his own admission, married another woman in St. Catharines in September. This woman has three children, one a baby four months old. She admits that she knew Sayers was married to another woman when she married him.
The arrest was made on Friday by Acting Chief of Police Laing. Sayers was taken before the local magistrate but was later taken to St. Catharines as he was married in that city to his second wife. Wifey number two is thirty years of age.
Inspector Gunton of Toronto assisted in the investigation of the conditions surrounding the case before the arrest was made.
At St. Catharines Sayers plead guilty but the magistrate remanded him for a week until evidence could be secured. The trial will be held there.
DIVISION STREET PREMISES, OWNED BY MISS H. GRIFFITH RANSACKED
[The Welland-Port Colborne Evening Tribune, 14 December 1931]
Ransacking the entire house at 12 Division street, owned by Miss Helena Griffith, a man took away $20 and ran from the place and down Division street shortly after eight o’clock this morning. He was seen by a Mrs. Johnson just as she was on her way to the house to do some work there. Mrs. Johnson, however, according to Police Chief George T. Crowe of Welland, failed to notify police, and it was not until near a quarter to nine o’clock that city police were notified of the break-in, Mrs. Johnson apparently telling Miss Griffith who communicated with Police Officer Tom Wilson.
Officer Wilson investigated, and found rooms all over the house in disarray. Police are thoroughly investigating every angle of the affair.
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