The Gazette from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 19

MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1959 SUN RISES AT 7.05 A.M.; SUN SETS 4.16 P.M. E.S.T. tC (f3UHCttC I SECOND SECTION 19 to 38 Druggist Presents Salk Puzzler A Unique Graveside Ceremony U.S. Civil War Recalled Here Suspect Sold Serum Before Theft Speedy Sentence Rejected A 40-year-old thief apparcad Quite disappointed yesterday when a criminal court judge refused his request for immediate imposition of sentence. The historical role of Canada, was a specially-made Confeder A Pont Viau druggist testified tried to rip up a laboratory gown for the purpose when he told them 'you'll only find string ate flag Mr.

Holtham, being un and particularly of Montreal, in the American Civil War struggle yesterday in Enquete Court that Salk vaccine theft suspect Jean able to purchase one. made the Paul Robinson sold him 299 vials 13-star. blue and red flag him self. here." Finally they hit upon the idea of closing him up behind the grilled door leading to the was closed up behind a grilled area leading to the monkey cages while the robbery was in progress, could not identify Robinson as one of the three men who carried out the $17,000 worth of precious Vaccine. He said their faces were covered with nylon stockings.

One a department otticial instructing him to deliver 250 "shots" to a "Mr. Robinson." The quantity was picked up the same day. He showed the court the receipt signed "Paul Robinson" but could not be sure it was the accused to whom he made the delivery. "Possibly it was he," he said. By JIM FERRABEE son Davis, Mrs.

Stewart of Santa Barbara, was on her way to Montreal to be present at the ceremony Unfortunately, illness delayed her in Vermont and she was unable to get to Montreal in time for the event. Draped over the tombstonei of the scarce anti-polio serum a few hours after the Laval des Rapides laboratory looting last August 31. A touch of history was re came to light again yesterday In a unique graveside ceremony on the slopes of Mount Royal. A simple tombstone was placed on the grave of Mrs. Margaret Louisa Howell, mother-in-law of cages.

Paul Emile Gagnc was arrest They demanded the keys to his car which he used to make his ed with two other men after they created The part a neutral country played in what has been called the bloodiest war of the 19th century. Judge John O'Meara ruled after had broken into a restaurant at MM) a three-hour hearing in the case that Crown Prosecutor Jacques 648 Wellington St. on Sunday Coderre had laid sufficient evi By Leon Levinson The trio led by Gagne readily pleaded guilty to breaking and entering chaiges before Judge dence before the court to justify sending the 33-year-old South Jefferson Davis, who took refuge in Montreal with the Oavis children while the conflict was being aged in the United States almost a century ago. Jefferson Davis was president of the Confederate States at the time of the Civil War and was himself forced to flee the coun IV '1 IrVI rounds and which was parked Shore man on his way to trial on three charges connected with the AMERICAN of them was obviously English-speaking and in "very broken" Frpnrh nrnmi srri him SS00 if he outside the laboratory. Two hours later, after they had theft of 6.801 told police only two men tooK But in his cros-examination of prosecution witnesses, Claude Danis for the defence introduced try.

He too found himself refugee in Montreal. part in the coup. "We don't fool around." he Mrs. Howell died in Montreal some puzzling factors. quoted the thief as saying." on Nov.

24, 1867 and was buried on the slopes of Mount Royal T. A. Fontaine. The judge decided to postpone sentence until Dec. 3 and Gagnr spoke up.

"It would please me your honor if sentence was imposed immediately," the prisoner told the court. After glancing at Gagne's record which showed four previous convictions including two year terms in 1955 and 1957 Judge Fontaine observed: "I don't see the reason why you're in such a big hurry. I can assure you that a week's delay in jail pending sentence isn't going to make much difference in your case The judge turned down the request stating he would give the case further study. tnree days later. Until yesterday her grave was almost unmarked The druggist, for example, told the judge he had made purchases of the vaccine from Robinson during several weeks preceding the theft.

And the professor in charge of the looted laboratory fled in his car (recovered at the end of the day) he managed to shake loose the catch of the grilled door and phoned police to report the theft. Dr. Lionel Forte, assistant director of the Institute, identified the cartons of vaccine found in the apartment rented by Robinson on St. Hubert St. as bearing the numbers and markings of the stolen shipment received in August from the University of Toronto Connaught Medical Research B.

N. Holtham, QC. of Sher brooke. took a lively in we're professionals, and we do business with a doctor and a nurse." The little nightwatchman told the judge he was just starting his 'third run" of his duties at 3 a.m. on Aug.

31 when the three men approached him from behind as he opened the door leading to the laboratory where the Salk vaccine was kept in cold storage. said he delivered 250 of the 10 cc. vials to a man who was "possi terest in the family history and was responsible for contacting a grandson of Jefferson Davis, Mr Jefferson Hayes-Davis of Colo bly" the accused and who signed a receipt as "Paul Robinson" on THANKGIVING DINNER Tomorrow Night Treat Friends To A Real Old Fashioned Turkey Dinner With All The Trimmings One of the World's Matt Delightful Restaurant 7815 Decarie Blvd. Paved Patron Parkinf rado Springs. The latter co-ope rated in erecting the monument.

Aug. 19. Accused Rented Apartment Family Taken To Safety One of the people that took in There was no doubt left by witnesses, however, that it was the accused alone who rented the Laboratories. He testified that the vials were I invoiced at "approximately" $2.50 each and were sold to government agencies for $5. At the time of the theft which came during the greatest period of scarcity as the epidem-I ic reached its peak his lions were to release vials only 'Package Deal7 jSt.

Hubert St. apartment where all but 183 of the shots" were They grabbed his arms and advised him "don't be a fool and you won't get hurt." 'I asked them what they wanted and assured them there was no money in the place," he added. 'They aid 'don't worry, we know why we're here, and now show us where the monkey department is'." When he brought them to the monkey cages, they asked him for some rope to tie him up. They For Thieves Out-Judge Anyone who out and com found four days after the crime. The janitor at 5252 St.

Hubert St. testified Robinson rented the two-and-a-half room apartment less on specific orders from the Pro the Davis family when they fled to Montreal was John Lovell who had a house at the corner of Union Ave. and St. Catherine where Morgan's department store now stands. Mrs.

Howell spent sometime with the Lovell as did her daughter and son-in-law, Jefferson Davis. The Davis family also spent some 11 months in Lennoxville. Que. 'a few miles from Sher- than 20 hours after the theft vincial Health Department. On Aug.

19, he declared, under cross-examination by Mr. Danis, he received a telephone call from mits a series of crimes, gets Two senior workers in the Laval des Rapides laboratories of the University of Montreal Institute of Microbiology also identified Robinson as the man who was shown through the premises for about an hour a few brooke) and they occupied a house on the hill that is still standing. days before the theft there. They said the accused repre Mr. Holtham relates that Mrs.

Howell was travelling to the sented himself as a medical stu United States in the fall of 1887 dent wso was particularly inter ested in immunization serum be cause of his employment in when she took sick. Her daughter went down to bring her back to Lennoxville. Apparently, they caught and then hopes to get a "package deal" is sadly mistaken. Judge T. A.

Fontaine said in Arraignment Court yesterday. The judge made his remarks to Bernard Brassard, a 34-year-old fraud specialist and thief. The court observed that Brassard had committed a series of crimes earlier this year and had finally been halted by police. "In July you were given sentences totalling four years and some of them were concurrent," he said. "Now you have pleaded guilty to another charge before me and you probably expect a auspended sentence." "That's not going to be the ease because I believe that each case should be punished separ health unit in Montreal Smith.

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Margaret Louisa Howell, mother-in-law of Jefferson Davis, president of the Southern Confederacy during the American Civil War. Mrs. Howell died in Montreal where she had taken refuge with the Davis children in 1867. The grave was unmarked until yesterday. A confederate flag lies on the ground beside the gravesite.

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