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General 49 The Leader-Post Regina, Saskatchewan Monday, February 27, 1978 Auction a success Vengeance feeling strong cause he was such an open, outspoken man," Swinton said. "For the same reasons, white men didn't trust him." The auction attracted international attention. A leading British gallery placed bids by telephone and a United States gallery flew 15 of its clients to Toronto by chartered jet. The auction was ordered by the public trustee after Eccles died without leaving a will. Although they were friends, Swinton said he knew nothing about the background of Eccles or where he was born.

The unusual is on display TORONTO (CP) Bill Pickells lay bare-backed Thursday on broken glass and a concrete block was placed on his chest. Another man walked up to Pickells and smashed the block with a sledgehammer. Pickells got up unscathed. Pickells is a North American karate champion, and one of some 50 exhibitors displaying their talents and wares at the fourth annual ESP psychic fair. Fair officials say they expect to draw between 8,000 and 10,000 persons interested in learning about such things as UFOs, meditation, tarot, auras, bio-rhythms, astrology and prophecy.

Participants can learn how to use a Pi-Phi High Energy Intensifier, which is a small replica of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh, have their future told with tarot cards and learn how to alleviate physical ailments through foot massage. out. The mother said she lives in fear that psychiatrists at some time will conclude that "now he's a good boy" and will release Johnson. The woman and her husband said they were relieved when police assured them, after Johnson's arrest last July, that he was responsible for the assault of their daughter in an apartment. The mother said the doctor told her that her daughter was seconds from death after the attack.

"He said if pressure had been applied to the neck for another five seconds, she would have been dead," the mother said. "When you realize how close she came to being killed (you realize) how thankful you are, but how terribly sad you feel for the girls who had been killed their relations," the mother said. women in an eight-year period. Johnson is being treated at the Mental Health Centre in Penetanguishene, Ont. The mother, whose daughter was beaten and near death after the man attempted to strangle her, said that "when you raise a daughter, realizing that, something like that could happen, but always hoping nothing will and then it does, you're "You want to kill him," she said in an Interview.

"That's the gut feeling. "If I got to him in the first few months (after the attack), I would have killed him; I would have had no hesitation. The feeling is still there." Evidence at Johnson's trial showed he had asked for psychiatric help in 1969. He was admitted to London Psychiatric Hospital, where he was diagnosed as a sexual deviate, and later signed himself TORONTO (CP) Bill Ecclcs, 63, an eccentric recluse art dealer with few friends and no family died three months ago leaving a legacy of what is consi-' dered to be Canada's most priceless collection of Eskimo art. His collection was auctioned Thursday and Friday.

More than 300 people jammed the auction rooms of Waddington, McLean and Co. Ltd. on Thursday to spend $102,375 on 200 sculptures and prints. A print of a muskox by Cape Dorset artist Pudlo sold for $1,800. A Manno stone carving of a bear looking at its reflection in ice, bought by Eccles in 1962 for $125, was sold for $7,000.

George Swinton, author of several works on Eskimo art, said Eccles was a pioneer of the Inuit arts and crafts in southern Canada. "He was well liked by the Eskimos be LONDON, Ont. (CP) A London woman whose daughter was assaulted by a man who has confessed to killing seven women and assaulting 10 others says she would "go gunning for him" if he was released from the centre where he is being treated. "There's no way I would want him to be let out on the streets again," the mother, who did not want to be named, says. "I would go gunning for him if he did." Earlier this month, Russell Maurice Johnson, 30, was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the strangulation of two London women and a Guelph, woman.

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