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Blames killing on dead man Accused says shots fired by friend After the shooting, Belanger said "Donnie said not to worry. That he missed him anyway." Belanger said Sparrow let Graydon out of the car on the Montreal Road at Graydon's request and then continued on to the apartment. Belanger said that after Graydon fired the shots, he placed the gun on his stomach. Belanger said he recognized it as the gun he had kept in his apartment for Graydon two weeks before the shooting. He said it was a gold-colored .32 calibre gun.

The following night, Belanger said Graydon telephoned him. He said he was frightened by Graydon's tone of voice and by what he told him. As a result told him that I was going to do hat he asked me I was prepared to say that I killed the person," he said. He said he agreed to take the rap "so he (Graydon) would leave me alone. I was scared of him." Belanger said he told Graydon that if he was charged, Graydon would "have to get me out.

Donnie said he'd get me out. He was going to come to court and say what happened under the Canada Evidence Act. I believed he'd do what he said." Urged to confess Belanger was arrested by Gloucester Police later that same night. At the station, Yvonne Smith visited him in his cell and asked him to confess so that Sparrow could go home with her, Belanger said. "She was crying.

I wanted to help her." he said. He decided to write his police statement confessing to the murder in his own hand "in case they asked me something I didn't know about." Under cross-examination by assistant Crown Attorney Andrejs Berzins, Belanger said he knew the man in the car had been shot, but didn't suggest they return to help because "they would all laugh at me. They would not have turned around anyway." Belanger said only he and Sparrow had seen Graydon get into the car and that no one else saw him from then until he got out. Berzins suggested that Belanger was making up his story and that he got the idea after Graydon's death. He suggested Belanger was angry about the sprayed gravel.

Belanger replied that he was angry with the man but "I did not shoot him." The trial will continue Monday. By Wendy Warburton Citizen uaff writer Murder suspect Maurice Joseph Belanger said Friday he did not fire the shots that killed an Ottawa man in April last year. Belanger, 27, is charged with the second degree murder of 21 -year-old public servant Andre Picotte. If found guilty, he faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Testifying on his own behalf in the Ontario Supreme Court, Belanger said that Donald Gordon Graydon, a friend of his, fired the shots that killed Picotte.

Also present at the shooting was William Leslie Sparrow, superintendent of the building where he and Belanger lived, and a friend of himself and Graydon, Belanger said. Graydon died one month after the Picotte shooting occured. Sparrow was later convicted of his murder. Under questioning by defence counsel Leonard Shore, Belanger said on the night of the incident he and Sparrow left Sparrow's apartment at 860 Blackthorne Apt. 1 05 and drove Sparrow's car to the west end apartment of Dorothy Verdon, Graydon's estranged girlfriend.

On the way, they bought a bottle of rye which they later drank in the car. Belanger said after they left Verdon's apartment, they saw Graydon walking towards it. He said Sparrow stopped the car and told Graydon to get in. Graydon was drunk and fell asleep in the back seat, Belanger said. He said the three men then drove to another friend's apartment and that he and Sparrow went upstairs, leaving Graydon asleep in the car.

Friend suggested chasing victim At the apartment, Belanger said Sparrow called his home and learned that his common-law wife, Yvonne Smith, had taken an overdose of pills. The two men then left. He said Sparrow drove along the Queensway to the St. Laurent Blvd. north exit and then turned right on Ogilvie Road.

"We went to a stop sign. There was a car stopped there. Les didn't stop fast enough and hit the car," Belanger said. "The person in the other car came out. He looked at his car and he went to walk over to our car.

We seen him change his mind and go back to his car. After that, he spin his tires after he take off." Belanger said that as the other car sped away, its spinning tires sprayed gravel against Sparrow's car. He said Graydon had awakened when the car stopped and yelled when it was hit by the stones. "Donnie told Les to chase the other guy," Belanger said. "And Les passed him and when he was passing him, the other person saw and Donnie shot him dead." Belanger said he was seated in the front passenger seat and Sparrow was driving at the time.

He said he thought that Sparrow was planning to overtake the car and force it to stop. Local briefs Thieves steal tough pussy cat Paul Rancourt is hoping who ever stole his pet lion cub will return it. The 40 pound, nine-week-old male cub was stolen late Thursday from his parked car on Montreal Road in Vanier. Rancourt said no questions will be asked, he only wants his pet, named Magic, returned. Anyone having information on the whereabouts of the cub is asked to contact the Humane Society at 725-3166.

Man faces assault charges Joseph Pinkus, 19, of no fixed address, was given a conditional release Friday on charges of assault and break and enter. He is to reappear in Provincial Court on Monday for plea. He faces two counts of assault causing bodily harm and one count of break and enter in connection with a Thursday incident at 1800 Baseline Rd. in which a man broke into an apartment and attacked the two occupants with a chain. West Hull police chief quits West Hull Police Chief Guy Lachaine has resigned to take a job as security chief at the University of Ottawa.

"It was a job offer I couldn't refuse and work that will provide me with a new challenge," said Lachaine. The resignation "is not due to any problems with the municipal officials." Council "regretfully" accepted the resignation at an emergency meeting this week and appointed Constable Michel Mainville as interim chief. Lachaine was hired as chief seven years ago. "I was alone at the time and had to do everything," he said. "It was hard work but also very rewarding because the people were helpful and understanding." The force has since grown to a staff of six.

A native of Ottawa's Lowertown area, Lachaine said his new job will also give him more time to live in the neighborhood he grew up in. CNTU leader loses appeal Hull union leader Rosaire Cormier has lost his appeal on a conviction to a charge of assaulting a Hull policeman. Cormier, an official of the Confederation of National Trade Unions, was found guilty by Judge Avila Labelle last May to assaulting Constable Jean Roch Menard on April 28, 1976. He was fined $150 and costs or 15 days in prison. An appeal before Quebec Superior Court Judge Francois Chevalier of Hull earlier this month.

upheld the original decision. Judge Chevalier said there was no new evidence presented to result in a different decision. The charge was originally laid following a protest by some 20 Regal Taxi drivers. When police arrived Cormier apparently kicked the policeman and was arrested. Navan man killed in accident A 38-year-old Navan man was killed Friday in a traffic accident on Regional Road 28, four miles west of Sarsfield.

Provincial police identified the victim as David Fournier, the lone occupant of the vehicle, a half-ton truck. Police said the victim apparently lost control of the west bound truck, causing it to roll over before colliding with an east bound car driven by Edgar Wall, also of Navan. Wall was not serioulsy injured. Two bids for CFVO permit Two television chains have submitted bids for the licence of the defunct Co-Operative de Television de l'Outaouais to operate a second French-language commercial television station in the Ottawa-Hull region. The two bids were by Tele-Metropole of Montreal and Radio-Nord which operates stations in Northern Ontario and Quebec's Abitibi region.

CFVO, the nation's first co-pcrativcly run television station, went bankrupt earlier this year and had to get off the air. A public hearing to award the licence is expected to be held by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in November. At present Radio-Canada, the French-language section of the CBC, operates the, only French-language commercial station in the area. Local news Page 2, The Citizen, Ottawa, Saturday, September 17, 1977 Ottawans forced to attend U.S. schools due to lack of Out.

treatment centres "Television is changing these individuals from the left hemisphere dominance we have had for centuries to right hemisphere. It is a strictly sensory instrument with no motor involvement. It is changing the sensibilities of the whole population. (In The Canadian magazine this neek, writer Florence Jones details the tragic suicide of a young dyslexia tictim.) illegible handwriting. Three out of four dyslexics are male.

There is no real concensus on what causes dyslexia. Some forms may be a result of minimal brain damage or a biochemical imbalance, and in many cases it appears to be an inherited condition. One of the most widely accepted theories was proposed by Dr. Samuel Orton 50 years ago. While each half of the brain controls vari ous activities, only one side becomes dominant in the use of language.

Orton said that if, in learning how to recognize symbols and translate them into words, both hemispheres took part, they might compete with each other for dominance, leading to reversed or jumbled perception. A more recent theory by Graven-hurst optometrist Dr. W. A. Hurst, holds that too much television can cause a type of dyslexia.

Our most distinguished single family homes he Campeau Tomorrow: Cloudy periods jm il i sri ri ej A ft dOII ecoa By Sarah Henry Citizen staff writer Ten Ottawa youngsters will leave their homes next week to attend a school in New York State because Ontario doesn't provide the education they need. All have serious learning disabilities which require the specialized teaching techniques offered at Gow School, near Buffalo, if they are ever to learn to read, write and absorb school work. Most of the parents will go deeply into debt to pay for this remedial education. A few, a small percentage of those who apply, will get financial assistance from the government. (From page 1) Ruth Rowlatt, whose son was the first Ottawa student to attend Gow, feels strongly that special high school education closer to home is needed for dyslexic youngsters.

"Having to go to another school in another country compounds the difficulties. "I know people who are having their children tutored. This helps, but it should be done right in the schools because the kids are tired after a day at school, it disrupts their activities and makes them stand out." At Gow, each child receives 40 minutes a day of "language reconstruction" which reteaches basic sounds and phonetic structures. Classes are small, and students receive one-to-one instruction with teachers. After two year's at Gow, Row-latt's son has entered university this fall.

Rowlatt was among the few parents in Ontario who were successful in getting grants from the Ministry of Community and Social services to pay the U.S. tuition. Bruce Crosby, president of the Ottawa chapter of the Association for Children with Learning Disabilities, has applied on behalf of his son Kelly, but docs not yet know if he'll receive aid. Because the Ministry of Education does not have special school programs set up for learning disabilities, it reroutes requests for grants through the Ministry of Community and Social Service's rehabilitation department, a branch set up solely to help adults who, for physical or mental reasons, have been unable work. It is estimated that about 10 to 15 per cent of the population has dyslexia to varying degrees.

A relatively small percentage of these cases are severe enough to require the specialized attention of a place like Gow. In many instances, the condition may never be diagnosed at all. Dyslexics, frequently see letters in reverse (b is seen as as p) or jumble words (butterfly may become flutterby). They may have poor motor skills, trouble finding the right word when speaking, difficulty organizing their activities, or r. f--C5.

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