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CANADA The Vancouver Sun, Friday, November 17, 1989 A12 Catholic priest dead after vicious beating in church Canadian Press NEWCASTLE, N.B. Terror struck the Miramichi region again Thursday night when a much-loved elderly priest was viciously beaten to death in the rectory where he lived alone next to his Roman Catholic feCo'U MOM) (tTti'ThF church at nearby Chatham Head. As in three other recent murders, is a If escaped murderer Allan Legere i cnsnppt RCMP said Father James Smith. ItliS! 69. apparently was attacked bv someone who entered the rectory of -iV church, said a neighbor told him the priest's body was inside the rectory.

"Everyone went up to church for 7 p.m. (mass) and he didn't show up, and they found him dead in the house," Malley said. Police confirmed Malley's account. Sgt. Munden said the beating was "a vicious assault." A safe was broken open and robbery is believed to be a motive, he said.

Police hope the red wooden ladder will be a clue. It does not belong to the church and RCMP asked anyone knowing anything about the ladder to report it. Munden would not confirm whether Legere was the prime suspect but he said he was considered a suspect. Police radio messages indicated Legere was the man police were looking for. i Police set up an intensive manhunt with widespread roadblocks but did not find the killer.

The killing came just one day after a police search Wednesday night in Chatham Head. Police did not say what the earlier search was about, but periodic searches have been common in the Miramichi since Legere escaped from guards taking him to a hospital checkup last May. the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary church by leaning a ladder against a window. Neighbors saw a long-haired man ev SDeedine awav from the church in the priest's 1984 Oldsmobile at SMITH about 6:45 p.m., RCMP Sgt. Ernie Munden said.

The empty car was found later Thursday in Bathurst, 80 kilometres to the north, neatly parked in a motel parking lot. Ken Malley, who lives two blocks away from the Orphan's testimony limited at inquiry into alleged abuses rj A li mJ -a I to Ij '1 Canadian Press ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. The controversy over limiting testimony at an inquiry into the Mount Cashel orphanage erupted again Thursday as a former resident was prevented from telling his full story. Darren Connors who says he was abused during eight years at the orphanage had begun detailing his experience under examination by his lawyer Richard Rogers.

Inquiry lawyer David Day interrupted Rogers to say that Connors hadn't complained to officials at the time of his abuse. Such testimony was therefore outside the mandate of the inquiry. The mandate is to examine how complaints against the Christian Brothers who run the orphanage were handled, he said. If a resident made no complaint, the inquiry can only ask why not. Rogers objected: "If we're going to assume that Darren was abused, then how are we going to know if he was abused unless he tells us." But inquiry head Samuel Hughes agreed with Day.

"It is irrelevant to pursue and it is therefore forbidden to pursue examples of sexual abuse any further," ruled the retired Ontario judge. Connors, who had quietly watched the debate, suddenly interjected, restraining his anger. "I don't think the abuse that happened to me is irrelevant," insisted the 23-year-old. Hughes explained that he was not saying Connors' abuse was trivial, only that it is not relevant to the inquiry. Outside the hearing, Rogers said he doesn't know why Connors' testimony was limited to general questions about abuse and his 1989 statement to police.

"I'm at a loss to understand as to what was the purpose of bringing Darren forward," Rogers said. The decision also surprised onlookers who have sat through eight weeks of shocking testimony about abuse by dozens of former residents. And it raised the question whether the inquiry is trying to tone down the evidence. Justice Minister Paul Dicks said in an interview his department has sent a letter to the commission expressing a general concern about publicity surrounding the inquiry. "The concern in this case is whether or not you can find a jury that will not be partial or biased or I have a formed opinion as to the guilt i or innocence of an accused," he.

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