#suspicious character

"oh me oh my. she sure is one suspicious character!"

“Four Out of Seven Admit Their Guilt,” Ottawa Citizen. November 12, 1940. Page 03. ---- Four out of seven men arrested early Monday morning by police officers in radio cars pleaded guilty when arraigned before M. J. O’Connor, K.C., deputy magistrate. The three who pleaded not guilty were remanded until Nov. 19, as were the others for sentence. Other charges will be laid and there is a possibility of one or two other arrests.

At 1.35 a.m., Constables Lester J. Routhliffe, Thomas J. Walsh, Eric A. MacDonald, and Harold B. Norton, in answer to a telephone call that men were acting in a suspicious manner around a drug store on Osgoode street, made a quick run and arrested Paul Hogue, 22 years, 239 Wilbrod street; Wilfred Belliveau, 17 years, 164 Besserer street, and Lucien Latulippe, 20 years, 127 Cumberland street.

The store had not been entered but hidden nearby Constables Walsh and Routliffe found a pinchbar, a wood chisel and flashlight. Subsequently Paul Emile Jobin, 20 years, 211E St. Patrick street, Alfred Bureau, 18 years, 192 Boteler street; Lucian Belliveau, 19 years, 164 Besserer street, and Hector Roy, 43 years, 57 1/2 Clarence street, were picked up.

In court, the first three arrested were charged with being in possession, by night, of instruments of shopbreaking. Hogue and Wilfrid Belliveau pleaded guilty and Latulippe not guilty. All were remanded until Tuesday, Nov. 19.

Jobin, Hogue, and Lucien Belliveau were charged with breaking into the store of Henri T. Godbout, 159 Rideau street, on Oct. 24, and stealing cigarets valued at $11.10. Hogue and Belliveau pleaded guilty, and Jobin not guilty. They, too, were remanded until Nov. 19.

Bureau pleaded guilty to being in possession of cigarets to the value of 20 cents which he knew had been obtained by shopbreaking. He was remanded until Thursday, Nov. 14, for sentence.

“Reformatory Terms for Shopbreaking Attempt,” Ottawa Citizen. January 6, 1939. Page 04. ---- Reformatory terms of eight months definite and not more than two months indeterminate thereafter were drawn by Rodolphe Lemieux, 21 years, and Gerard Martin, 20 years, both of no fixed abode, for attempted shopbreaking.

“Girl’s Premonition Leads To Arrest of Suspect,” The Globe and Mail. May 16, 1940. Page 04. ---- A premonition of Louise Puccini of Elm Street that three men getting out of a car in front of her father’s grocery store were hoodlums, yesterday led to the arrest of one of the men after a police chase that ended on Elizabeth Street.

The girl was inside her father’s store at the corner of Elm and Chestnut Streets talking to P.C. Frank Morocco, when a large, new sedan drew up outside the store on the south side of Elm Street. Three shabbily dressed men gout out and walked hurriedly along Elm Street.

‘Quick, arrest those men,’ the girl cried. 

The officer, thinkng it might some of the men involved in the bombing of the Puccini store three weeks ago, immediately gave chase.

One of the men got away, but Morocco captured the other pair after a chase of several blocks along Elm Street and down Elizabeth Street. As the officer marched them to the Dundas street West Station one of them broke free at the corner of Bay and Dundas Streets and escaped in the traffic.

The other man was arrested on a charge of auto theft. He have his name as Reginald Wilson, 36, of Windsor The car belonged to J. M. Carter of Glen Elm Avenue. It was not until he returned to the police station that P.C. Morocco knew the men were wanted for car stealing.

‘I thought there was something funny about the way the men hurried away from the car,’ Miss Puccini said afterward. ‘Besides, they didn’t look as if they owned the car. I don’t know what made me suspicious.’

Not in Kansas Anymore

I am among the scores descending on Coe Lake to watch the 4th of July fireworks. We squish our blanket in with the sea of others and became part of the throng; the green is absolutely choked with people. The sticky smell of funnel cakes settles like dew upon us. From the pavilion, middle-aged men with day jobs belt out classic rock tunes, and behind us hastily cobbled rides tick and thunk and…