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- 1996-10-09
Part of Local History Collection
An article highlighting the events of the Boyd Gang Robbery, and the reunion of key members in 1996.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Times
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Part of Local History Collection
An article highlighting the events of the Boyd Gang Robbery, and the reunion of key members in 1996.
Bradford West Gwillimbury Times
Two Members of Boyd Gang Receive Preliminary Hearing for C.I.B.C. Robbery
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Frank Wilson and Leonard Jackson, two of the three men who held up the Bradford C.I.B.C., receive a preliminary hearing. Article details Provincial Constable Reg. Wilson's testimony as to what occurred that day.
Bradford Witness
Sunday Night Break-Ins At Bradford Homes
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Article about a series of break-ins in Bradford, following the break in at Custom Cleaners (see Related Descriptions).
Bradford Witness
Stage Armed Hold-Up at Model Bakery
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"Clerk Forced at Gun-Point to Open Cash Register -- Street Row Distracts Attention of Passerby."
Article describing a robbery at the Model Bakery on Holland Street.
Bradford Witness
Scene of Double Murder is Believed Near Bradford
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"The brutal murder of Robert McKay, young RCAF veteran and his wife, Gloria, on Monday evening [August 1, 1949] of last week, has aroused the people of this province as few such tragedies have ever done before and the setting for this crime appears to be definitely established in the Bradford area..."
Describes the events leading up to Mr. and Mrs. McKay's murder. The two were shot to death and found in Toronto. The killer, Stanley Buckowski, was found in Los Angeles as a serial robber and murderer, where he was charged and executed in 1952 by gas chamber. He was never charged for the McKays murder, though admitted to the crime and of another murder of RCAF veteran, Alfred Edward Layng, in Toronto on July 30, 1949.
Bradford Witness
Roadblock - Boyd Gang Bank Robbery
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Road block on highway was almost immediately thrown up by provincial police. Police said the pattern of escape used by men was similar to that employed in the hold-up of the Royal Bank of Canada at Woodbridge, just 17 days ago today.
Police gun down man before my eyes
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"Shots ring out by Tim Hortons in 'sleepy town' - "Stop, get down on the ground," shouted the police officer for the third or fourth time. I froze but the man kept walking. Three shots rang out in rapid succession echoing across the Time Hortons parking lot." ....
Toronto Star
Man-Hunt Climax Is Interesting to Local Residents
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Edwin Alonzo Boyd is captured by Toronto police. His wife and brother rented an apartment from Mr. and Mrs. George W. Stoddart of Toronto and Bradford as a hide-out, posing as missionary-writers. Mr. Boyd is believed to have been associated with the robbery of the Bradford Bank of Commerce the previous summer.
Bradford Witness
Family, community in shock after murder-suicide
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"Police search for clues in death of popular couple
BOND HEAD - A family and a community are struggling to understand why Bill Burton would kill his wife and then himself. Police say Burton, a 44-year-old agricultural supply representative, shot his wife Heather, 43, to death on Monday before turning the gun on himself." ...
Toronto Star
Part of Joe Saint fonds
Contains news clippings and articles on various events of Bradford West Gwillimbury
Joe Saint