#simcoe county

“Charges Dismissed and Bail Bond Cancelled,” Kingston Whig-Standard. February 7, 1933. Page 9. --- BARRIE, Feb. 7 —Despite the rigorous appeal of J. C. McRuer, K.C., counsel for Martin J. Insull, that his client be discharged under the terms of the Extradition Act, Judge Dudley Holmes, senior Judge of Simcoe County, today dismissed the original charges of larceny and embezzlement standing against Insull and ordered the surety released and Insull's $50,000 bail bond delivered for cancellation. 

“THROUGH THE HOME COUNTIES marched Grey-Simcoe Foresters this week, boosting their war services drive in Owen Sound, Stayner, Thornbury, Meaford, and other towns whence their members are recruited. Here they are on parade in Collingwood.”

“Boy, 16, Killed By Shot, Police Hold Neighbor,” Toronto Star. November 24, 1941. Page 19. ---- Wilfred Daily Found Dead in Alliston Living-Room ---- MOTHER NOT TOLD --- Special to The Star Alliston, Nov. 24 - Wilfred Daily, 16, was shot between the eyes at close range and killed in the living-room of a 36-year-old neighbor’s home here Sunday. The older man is held on a vagrancy charge.

Daily was the youngest son of Mrs. Eva Daily, widowed mother of two other sons.

Police could not locate the mother to notify her of the tragedy. Her other sons, Louis, 27, and James, 18, said she had gone away for the day, but they did not know where. She left Sunday afternoon, and did not return last.

Dr. R. C. Wilson said he was called by telephone to the home where the prisoner lived with his 78-year-old father, who was absent at the time. He told police the boy was dead on his back in the living-room. The prisoner was sitting in a chair looking at him.

“Bachelor Is Accused Of Murdering Youth,” Toronto Star. November 25, 1941. Page 2. --- Special to The Star Alliston, Nov. 25. - Theodore Brooks, 36-year-old Alliston bachelor, was charged yesterday with the murder of 16-year-old Wilfred Daily of Alliston. Daily’s body was found Sunday with a bullet wound between the eyes in Brook’s home. Brooks and Daily were close friends.

Dr. R. C. Wilson was summoned by Brooks to his home, Sunday afternoon. The doctor found the youth’s body lying on the living-room floor with a wound inflicted by a .38-calibre revolver slug in his head.

Funeral services for the youth have been delayed until a second autopsy is performed by Dr. William Robinson, provincial pathologist, Lorne Taylor, funeral director, said today.

“Simcoe, Sept. 29. - A sentence of four months in the Ontario reformatory was given Alfred Matthews, Port Rowan, by Magistrate Gunton here yesterday. Matthews was found guilty of having homebrew beer for sale.”