“Martin Will Stand Trial,” Border Cities Star. August 15, 1930. Page 03.
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‘Burg Youth Committed In Fatal Stabbing Of Windsorite
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Defence Is Silent
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Holdaway, Also Charged, To Appear Wednesday For Hearing
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Joseph Martin, 23, of Amherstburg, was committed for trial by Magistrate W. A. Smith in Sandwich police court yesterday afternoon on a charge of murder arising out of the fatal wounding of Clarence Bulman, 20, in Amherstburg, on the early morning of August 3.
HOLDAWAY REMANDED
The aftermath of the love quarrel which brought about the death of the Windsor youth, and the subsequent arrest of Martin, also entagled the tentacles of the lw about Frank Holdaway, 25, who is likewise charged with murder.
Holdaway, former sweetheart of Martin’s sister, Rhea, apex of a tragic triangle, was remanded to Windsor Police Court at 10 a.m. Wednesday for his preliminary hearing. Holdaway is also an Amherstburg youth.
It was Holdaway’s jealousy of Rhea’s new sweetheart, Frank Roland, of Detroit, that is alleged to have brought on the street brawl in which Bulman interfered, and was stabbed.
NO DEFENCE EVIDENCE
Three witnesses only were called by the Crown at yesterday’s hearing. The defence, which is being conducted by Gordon L. Fraser, of Windsor, and Stephen H. Smith, of Amherstburg, followed the usual procedure in preliminary hearings and did not submit any evidence.
‘Nothing to say,’ remarked Mr. Fraser, when the magistrate asked Martin if there was anything he wished to say.
‘The evidence discloses a prima facia case on the part of Martin,’ Magistrate Smith then declared. ‘He will be committed for trial at the next court of competent jurisdiction.’
Indications are that Martin will be tried for murder at the assizes which are to open at Sandwich before Mr. Justice Jeffrey on October 13.
Dr. Edgar D. Hutchinson, of Amherstburg, the first witness called, told of treating Bulman for an abdominal wound on the morning of August 3. The wound, he said, was from two to three and a half inches long, and was caused by some sharp instrument, presumably a knife. Death, the doctor said, was due to peritonitis, caused by infection from an external source.
NOT ATTENTIVE
Holdaway listened interestingly while Dr. Hutchinson was describing the nature of the wound, but Martin paid little attention to what was being said.
The quarrel and Bulman’s well-meant interference were described by Louis Desrosiers, off 789 Curry avenue, and Jack Coe, of 859 Cameron avenue, two members of a party of seven Windsor youths who witnessed it. Bulman had accompanied them from Windsor.
Desrosiers said that Holdaaway and Martin were beating roland and throwing these about the roadway on a side street in the town. Bulman, he added, asked Holdaway what the trouble was, and things began to happen.
‘Holdaway made a face at Bulman,’ he went on, ‘and struck him on the jaw and ran away. Bulman ran after Holdaway, and Martin got after Bulman with a knife.’
‘GOT HIM WITH THE KNIFE’
'Wha did Marin do?’ Magistrate Smith asked.
‘He got him with the knife,’ Desrosiers explained, adding that Marin cut Bulman across the abdomen with the knife.
When he saw Martin go after Bulman with the knife, the witness said, he shouted a warning, but it was too late.
‘Did you recognize the man who hot him with the knife?’ asked Louis St. Pierre, assistant crown attorney.
‘Martin’ said Desrosiers.
Cross-examined by Mr. Fraser, Desrosiers said Martin ‘was in the middle of the road, and he had his sister by the throat’ when he arrived at the scene of the quarrel. Martin had a knife in one hand, he stated, and was dragging his sister across the street by the throat with the other.’
One told of meeting Roland, and of being informed by him that Holdaway tried to beat him up while he was walking along the street with Rhea. Down the side street, Coe said, he could hear the sounds of the scuffle between Martin and his sister.
Roland accompanied the youths to the scene of the scuffle, Coe said, and Holdaway again attacked him and his him. Bulman then intervened and asked Holdaway what the trouble was Holdaway struck him and ran, as related by Desrosiers.
SAW YOUTH ‘SLUMP’
Martin, the witness said, followed Holdaway and Bulman to a house across the street, and then ‘started striking someone on the veranda with his knife.’ Coe said he did not see Martin stab Bulman, but stated that he saw the Windsor youth ‘slump’ after Martin started brandishing the knife.
Coe said the knife seemed to be about 10 inches long, and resembled a hunting knife.
‘That would be a sword,’ commented Mr. Fraser.
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“Girl Silent As Brother Tried,” Border Cities Star. August 15, 1930. Page 03.
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Rhea Martin Quiet While Court Sits; Dead Boy’s Pal is Moved
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Rhea Martin, 24-year-old Amherstburg girl probably realizes now hat one cannot trifle with people’s feelings, and also realizes now much trouble can result from the thoughtless of one person.
The first hearing before Magistrate W. A. Smith in Sandwich police court yesterday of the trial of her brother, Joseph, 23, and Frank Holdoway, 26, for the death of Clarence Bulman, perhaps convinced her that she was in small way the cause of a part of it.
Martin was committed for trial for murder at the next court of competent jurisdiction. Holdaway was remanded to appear in Windsor Police Court next Wednesday morning.
Martin is said to have stabbed Bulman with a knife when the latter interfered in a quarrel arising over Rhea. The girl had been taken home by Frank Roland, a Detroiter. Martin and Holdaway, a friend of Rhea, objected. A fight ensued, Bulman was driving in the road and stopped to protect the girl. The stabbing followed.
Miss Martin was very quiet yesterday and sat very still outside the courtroom, waiting for her call as a witness. The call didn’t come, because only three witnesses gave evidence, and her name was last on the list .Two of these, Louis Desrosiers and Jack Coe, boys who were in the car with Bulman the night he was killed, were only about 20 years old. It was obvious Thursday was the first they had been in a courtroom on such a grave matter, and though both ave their evidence unfalteringly, there were times when each became flustered by the crowd and by the fact that a whole room’s attention was centred upon them. Louis was evidently quite strong in his feeling toward the accused persons, for when their names came into the testimony, he would clench his teeth and close his fists behind his back.
The police court, where the hearing took place, was crowded to its full capacity, and people were standing to double lines about the wall. A good many were the curiosity seekers present at any court proceedings, but a substantial percentage of the population of Amherstburg was represented,
The mother of Rhea and Josseph Martin, the accused, was not there. Rhea Martin was accompanied by one of her uncles. She refuses to be photographed, and when she walked out of the police headquarters hid her face with her hand. Her last remark was ‘I’d like to break that camera.’
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FACE CHARGES OF MURDER
FRANK HOLDAWAY, 26, left, and Joseph Martin, 23, who are charged with murder as a result of the fatal stabbing of Clarence Bulman, Windsor youth, in Amherstburg on the early morning of August 3, are shown here. Martin was committed for trial at his preliminary hearing in Sandwich yesterday, and Holdaway was remanded to Wdnesday. Their homes are in Amherstburg.
