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Ford Maverick
Ford St. Thomas Assembly Plant
Abandoned St. Thomas Physiatric Hospital
Training facility
“FIERCE FIGHT IN ELGIN JAIL,” Kingston Daily Standard. October 12, 1920. Page 1. ---- Prisoners Awaiting Trial Attack Governor And Turnkey ---- St. Thomas, Ont.. Oct. 12.-A daring and brutal attack was made by two prisoners in the Elgin County Jail on Governor Luton and Turnkey Grant. The prisoners. Stanley Chapelle and Roy Roberts. who made the attack are two Aylmer men awaiting trial at the Assizes on the charge of auto stealing. The men made a rush at the jail officers as they entered the corridor.
Roberts struck the turnkey over the head with a heavy iron bar which he had torn from one of the windows. The blow struck him on the side of the face, knocking out several teeth. Chapelle rushed at Govenor Luton, kicking him in the stomach and striking on the head with a heavy pie plate The fight lasted 15 minutes before the prisoners were subdued. The turnkey is suffering from a serious wound on his head. The prisoners were arraigned this morning before Magistrate Maxwell on the charge of murderous assault and attempt to escape jail.
“Swift Justice,” Toronto Globe. June 14, 1911. Page 03. ---- Rodney, June 13. - Swift justice was meted out to a daring criminal here this afternoon, when Angus McDonald, alias James McLean, was sentenced by Police Magistrate Hunt of St. Thomas to four years in Kingston Penitentiary for forgery. McDonald was arrested this morning at Bothwell by the local constable there, on information from Chief of Police Plyley of Rodney that he was wanted here for uttering a forged promissory note. There were other similar charges against the prisoner.
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“’Pen’ For Pickpocket,” Toronto Star. March 19, 1941. Page 10. ---- Graham Fenton, 68, Weeps Kissing Wife Good-by at Second Trial --- London, Ont., March 19 - Graham Fenton, 68, of Hamilton, convicted of attempting to pick the pocket off Alex Lethbridge, of Fingal, yesterday, was sentenced to two years in penitentiary. The offence was committed at the international plowing match in Elgin county last October.
Fenton was tried at St. Thomas in November and sentenced to three years. A new trial was ordered by an appeal court. The sentence was dated back to October, when Fenton was first arrested. He wept as he kissed his wife good-by in court.
[AL: Fenton was also known as Fred Graham, George Fenton, G. Hartford and George Fraser. He was born in Montreal in the 1880s, and had been married for many many years. He had been in the penitentiary five previous times, going back to 1905 or so - three times in St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary and twice at Kingston Penitentiary. In extremely poor health when convicted, as convict #6537, he was put on an outside work gang at Kingston Penitentiary, essentially just doing a little bit of work here and there day to day. He was granted a conditional release in June 1942 given his advanced age.]
“Judge Refuses Plea Elgin Farmer Sane,” Toronto Star. January 10, 1940. Page 21. ---- Forced Family With Knife to Pray Till 5 a.m. --- In a judgement delivered yesterday at Osgoode Hall, Mr. Justice Fisher states Warren Wilson, Elgin tobacco farmer, is mentally ill and should not be released from the Ontario hospital at London. The decision is a sequel to habeas corpus proceedings on Wilson’s behalf to obtain his release. His lordship reviewed in his judgement the evidence adduced at the trial of Wilson in Woodstock, referring to the testimony of Mrs. Wilson that her husband threatened her by pointing a shotgun at her on one occasion and compelling the whole family to pray until 5 a.m. by threatening them with a butcher knife.