#simcoe ontario

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"GIVEN SUSPENDED SENTENCE," Kitchener Daily Record. July 12, 1934. Page 13. --- SIMCOE - Three 15-year-old Toronto boys, who pleaded guilty to stealing $20 from the tills of two Simcoe stores were given six months' suspended sentence and ordered to make restitution.

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"CHARGE BEER ISSUE IS ONLY RED HERRING," Toronto Star. September 16, 1933. Page 17. ---- "Ferguson on Fishing Party, With Beer Glass as Bait" ---- Special to The Star Simcoe, Ont., Sept. 16. - The C.C.F. movement gained a strong foothold in Norfolk county last night when a large gathering welcomed C. J. Maund, assistant secretary of the federation, and Miss Lorna Cotton, Ph.D., both of Toronto.

Mr. Maund said the common necessities of the people must be socialized. The national flag of Canada to-day, he said, should be "a red bailiff's flag bearing Premier Bennett's iron heel in one corner and in the other three pawn brokers' balls, clutched by an American eagle." Mr. Maund charged that a Simcoe factory was paying employees less than a living wage and handing out huge stock dividends to a lucky few.

Miss Cotton charged that the old line parties were attempting to be- cloud the issue by introducing the beer by the glass question into politics. "Mr. Ferguson came over here on a fishing party with a beer glass as bait," she said. "If the Conservatives are returned in the next election, you people will have the empty glass and Mr. Ferguson his brewery stocks."

Prominent in the gathering were a number of men who in the past have been influential party workers, while a large percentage of those who attended were returned soldiers. Ald. Percy Carter, active Conservative worker, and for five years a member of the town council, presided as chairman.

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"Prisoner For Portsmouth." Kingston Daily Standard. September 27, 1913. Page 1. --- John Underhill, sentenced from Simcoe, to serve ten years and receive twenty lashes for a criminal assault on a young girl, was brought to the city last night and locked in the cell at the police station. This morning he was transferred to the 'pen' to begin his sentence.

[Underhill was 19, a farmer, tattooed on his wrists, and scarred elsewhere from farm labour. He was convict #F-649, worked on the prison farm, and was never reported. Remarkably, he was paroled April 22, 1914, having served less than seven months of his sentence. Sometimes this happened because of illness, or because there was doubts as to his guilt - hard to say in this case.]

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"GALT, PORT DOVER ROAD WILL BE ELECTRIFIED," Berlin News Record (Kitchener, Ont.) July 12, 1913. Page 1. ---- (From Simcoe Reformer.) Engineer Kellatt, of the Lake Erie & Northern, was talking to The Reformer on Monday. He said that the story about the line being exclusively a steam one had no foundation in fact. The line from Galt to Port Dover would be electrified. Of that there was no possible doubt. The board of directors had never considered making it a steam road.

Of course, the roadbed would be of steam standard and the steel heavy. It would be quite possible to run an ordinary steam locomotive, hauling a full complement of loaded cars, over the line any time it was found desirable. But this fact did not clash with the statement that it would be an electrified line.

The T. H. &. B. brakes will not be used. The delay north of Waterford is caused by a difference of opinion as to the merits of two alternative routes. Two complete surveys have been made: one runs through Boston, the other takes a more westerly course and misses Boston by a major more. The final decision will be made in a few days, and it was good betting that construction will be under way in a month.

Mr. Kellatt expects to have the line open from Brantford to Galt by October 1st in time for this fall's business. He places the completion of the whole line and its opening for business, from Port Dover through to Galt, not later than June 1, 1914.

One of the difficulties now con fronting him in Simcoe is to accommodate his plans to the recent purchases of land by the Board of Education. Of this, probably more will be heard in the near future.

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"George Snelgrove [bottom] and Roy Winter, [top] the two boys arrested for housebreaking recently, appeared before his honor Judge Robb and pleaded guilty. Winter was sentenced to five years and Snelgrove to four years in the Kingston penitentiary." - from the Hamilton Spectator. May 5, 1912. Page 25. ///

“Youths for the ‘Pen’,” Kingston Daily Standard. May 7, 1912. Page 08. — Two Entered The Big Portsmouth Prison This Morning. — Two Youths, aged 18 and 19, entered the penitentiary this morning. They were both in bright spirits and didn’t seem to feel their disgrace very keenly. They are looking forward to learning a trade while in the institution.

The youthful convicts are Roy Winters, five years for burglary, and George Snellgrove, four years for shop-breaking. They were brought down by Sheriff Snider, of Simcoe, and two constables, and spent part of the night at the police station.

[AL: Both young men had been in local jails several times before this, and Winters was illiterate - he would attend school inside the penitentiary. Winters was convict #F-384 and Snelgrove #F-385. Winters was reported once in September 1912 and Snelgrove oncce in February 1913 - neither serious. Both were also paroled early in their sentence - Winters in August 1913 and Snellgrove in April. The latter did come back to the penitentiary again in the 1920s.]

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"Three Hurt As Mob Attacks Alien Workers At Delhi," Border Cities Star. August 3, 1933. Page 9. --- Tension At High PitchHome of Foreign-Born Grower Target For Eggs, Stones ---- Resent Invasion ---- Too Many From Outside At Work in Tobacco Fields,Is Claim ---- LONDON, Ont., August 3 - Delhi's disturbances are not being investigated by the provincial police of London division, Sergt. William Scott informed The Star today. "It is a matter for the municipal authorities," said Sergt. Scott. "Delhi has its own chief of police employed by the town."

DELHI, Ont., August 3.- Tension was at a high pitch in the tobacco fields of this area today as a result of the unruly demonstration by a mob of some 50 men outside the home of Joseph Repchak, tobacco grower, last night. An official investigation is likely.

SUFFER HEAD WOUNDS TWO of Repchak's employes suffered head wounds and other cuts when showered with missiles by the demonstrators who were said to be protesting the alleged influx of alien workers. The injured men were members of a party of four occupying the verandah of Repchak's home when the mob marched past. Eggs and stones were hurled at the dwelling. it was said.

Repchak, aroused by the disturbance, hastily dressed and took his injured workers to the office of Dr. E. W. Zumstein for medical attention. A crowd estimated at 100 followed them and congregated outside the building but did not attempt to molest the injured men after their wounds had been tended.

4 ON VERANDAH Four employes of Repchak, himself a naturalized Canadian. were sitting on the verandah when the mob made its appearance. Caught in the first volley, two of the men were hit with stones and suffered deep scalp wounds which required medical attention. The other men ran into the house, where Mr. Repchak was hastily dressing. having been aroused from his sleep as the stones kept bouncing off the wallsof his home.

Undaunted the tobacco grower, accompanied by the injured men, started out for the office of the doctor in the village, followed by the howling mob, and by the time the doctor's office was reached there were more than 100 in the mob. They kept milling around in front of the physician's office and for a time fear was expressed that they might again attack the men when they emerged.

William Bennett, said to have been one of those active in the demonstration, was also a casualty, suffering a cut on his head, which required six stitches to close. He, too, was treated by Dr. Zumstein and when the mob learned he had been injured tempers flared again. Bennett said he had been hit with a stone thrown by one of the Repchak employes.

NO POLICE Complete absence of any police officers in the village added to the general confusion as a number of the more peaceful citizens tried to find the local night constable. He could not be found, having disappeared before the mob set out on its march to the Repchak home, it is claimed. Trouble has been brewing for sometime, it is claimed, as the more radical English residents, protested the bringing of foreign-born into the district.

However, according to reports Mr. Repchak is considered a worthy citizen and only two months ago was granted his Canadian citizenship papers. His two children attend the Delhi public school and are popular with their school chums.

Frank Kasza and Coloman Milo were the two Hungarians injured.

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"Charges May Follow Riots," Border Cities Star. August 4, 1933. Page 21. --- DELHI IS PEACEFUL --- Provincial Police Probe Attack on Grower ---- SIMCOE, August 4 - Charges will probably follow Wednesday night's rioting at Delhi when a mob stoned and threw rotten eggs at foreigners whom they claimed had taken jobs which rightfully belonged to Canadian citizens. Provincial police went to Delhi yesterday and made an investigation of the circumstances surrounding the outbreak, but would not reveal which of the participants, if any will face court action.

It was learned, however, that the outbreak Wednesday night had really been planned for last Saturday evening, but for some reason had been postponed. In Wednesday night's affair two men, employes of Joe Rep- hack, naturalized Canadian citizen, received slight injuries from stones thrown at them by the mob. A third, William Bennett, allegedly leader of the mob, also suffered injuries, but none of these are serious. Contrary to reports, Delhi has a full-time police officer and a night watchman engaged by the local merchants. The first intímation police headquarters here had of the affair was from newspaper re-ports yesterday.

Yesterday the streets of Delhi were almost deserted as provincial police arrived to investigate the riot.

Provincial Constable L. I. Shipley, of Simcoe, who was in charge of the investigation, questioned residents of Delhi in an attempt to identify the leaders of the mob. Although so far there have been no arrests, indications are that court prosecution will follow the riot.

Meanwhile Frank Kasza and Coloman Mile, the two Hungarian immigrants who were injured in the outburst, are recovering. Kasza suffered a wound in the head when he was struck by a stone, while his fellow countryman was struck behind the left ear.

Residents of Delhi are voicing a protest at the lack of police protection. Complaints from all parts of the village were heard because police could not be located when the riot broke out. It was not until 12 hours after the outburst that provincial police from Simcoe arrived.

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"PEACE NOW REIGNS IN DELHI DISTRICT," Toronto Globe. August 4, 1933. Page 9. ---- Accounts of First Disorder Exaggerated, Says Acting Reeve --- (Staff and Special Despatches.) Delhi, Aug. 3.-Calm has followed the mob-storm alleged to have been generated by anti-foreign feeling among the tobaccó-growing element around Delhi on Wednesday.

According to Acting Reeve Barham, reached by long-distance phone last night, everything in the Delhi district is now peaceful and the ac- counts of the first disorder were somewhat exaggerated, both in the number of people participating and the extent of the damage inflicted on the objects of their wrath.

Despatches early yesterday morning described an attack by a mob on the home and person of Joseph Repchak, tobacco grower, and some of his employees, as an expression of protest against the influx of foreign- born employees in the industry around here.

However, The Globe learned that the Chief of Police at Delhi was busy most of the night away from his headquarters at Delhi, and another special constable, said to have been engaged by the merchants of the community for some time past, was patrolling the streets.

Simcoe, Aug. 3. - Charges will probably follow last night's rioting at Delhi, when a mob of hoodlums stoned and threw rotten eggs at foreigners who, they claimed, had taken jobs which rightfully belonged to Canadian citizens. Provincial Police today went to Delhi and made an investigation of the circumstances surrounding the outbreak, but would not reveal which of the participants, if any, will face court action. It was learned, however, that the outbreak last night had really been planned for last Saturday evening, but for some reason had been postponed.

In last night's affair, two men employees of Joe Rephack, naturalized Canadian citizen, received slight injury from stones thrown at them by the mob. A third, William Bennett, allegedly leader of the mob, also suffered injuries; but none of these is serious. Contrary to reports, Delhi has a full-time police officer and a nightwatchman engaged by the local merchants. The first intimation Police Headquarters here lad of the affair was from newspaper reports today.