“Fifth Conviction Brings Two Years,” Ottawa Journal. September 22, 1930. Page 12. ---- Special to The Journal. KEMPTVILLE, Sept. 21. - His fifth conviction in two years, Lawrence Crawshaw, 21, of Montreal, was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary by Magistrate H. Atkinson for breaking the locks on a gasoline pump and also breaking into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kirby, of Prescott, on September, 19. Since 1928, Crawshaw has received one suspended sentence, two terms of six months each, and a one-year sentence.
[AL: Crawshaw was born in Manchester, England, but grew up in Montreal. He had served most of his sentenced in the Shawbridge Boy’s Farm and the Montreal Jail. At 21, he had already been married and separated, was heavily scarred on his hands and legs, worked for the circus, and travelled around Ontario and Quebec a great deal. At Kingston Penitentiary, he was prisoner #1852. He was transferred to the Collin’s Bay minimum security prison camp in April 1931, becoming convict #282 and worked at construction there. He was paroled July 1932.]
