“Soldier Sent To Prison,” Toronto Star. March 28, 1941. Page 44. ----- ‘In your case I am passing sentence without comment,’ Magistrate Gullen told Aubrey Staley, a soldier appearing for sentence on a serious charge and also for theft of a purse. ‘The sentence will be three years in Kingston penitentiary on each charge to run concurrently,’ ruled the court.
[AL: Staley was born in Kitchener, moved to Chippawa, near Niagara Falls, and had worked and lived in Welland, as well. He was 30 at the time of this sentence, and serving in the Welland Lincoln Regiment in the Canadian Active Service Force. He had previously been in Kingston Penitentiary from 1939 to 1940, and had also been in the reformatory three times since the early 1930s. One half of his sentence here was for ‘a serious offence’ - his prison records indicate this was actually ‘buggery’ i.e. sex with a man, and apparently consensual, though the other man was not charged as was often the case in these investigations. At Kingtson Penitentiary, he was convict #6539 and he worked mostly in the shoe shop, and was something of a ‘wise guy’ in the shop - he got in trouble a few times for inappropriate language and so forth. He was released in August 1943 to Toronto. He would go back to the Penitentiary at least once more in 1944.]