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5/22/21
“Burwash Inmates Beat Up Witnesses, Inquiry Reveals,” Toronto Globe. February 11, 1933. Page 1. ---- Victims Removed to Sudbury "to Avoid Trouble," It Is Admitted --- AFTERMATH OF PROBE ----- All Quiet Now and No General Plot Exists, It Is Said ---- (Canadian Press Despatch.) Sudbury, Feb. 10. Scant communication facilities tonight veiled attempts to obtain further information from Burwash Industrial Farm, where three prisoners are known to have been "put on the spot" by other convicts as a result of testimony they gave before the inquiry into the death of a former prisoner, Frank Smith.
The three men, beaten by fellow-convicts, were removed to the district jail here following a disturbance at the farm, it was learned today. Superintendent N. S. Oliver declared no general plot against the prisoners had been found, but said, "Under the circumstances, the simplest way to avoid trouble was to transfer the three men."
Communication Difficult. Due to the heavy storms of the past few days, the telephone line leading to the Industrial Farm was partly out of commission today, and communication with the prison, where 531 convicts are quartered, was very difficult.
Following the transference of the three prisoners, all was quiet at the prison, it was reported here.
No Official Word. "No official report of a disturbance has been received from Burwash," Hon. George H. Challles, Provincial Secretary, told The Globe last evening.
A former inmate, one of those who gave evidence at the inquiry here, had not heard of the alleged trouble, he stated, when speaking to The Globe. "I am not surprised, though, that the 'bunch' who gave evidence in favor of the guards were being laid for," the ex-prisoner declared.
Snitches get stitches bitches.
KID CREOLE & THE COCONUTS
'Stool pigeon'
Tropical gangsters, 1982
Stool Pigeons, 1928
Back in the olden days, stool pigeons (either police informants or private detectives) were considered the lowest form of humanity, not unlike Rupert Murdoch's phone hackers of today. Indeed, the reason why police were put in uniforms in the first place was so people could tell who was a cop and who wasn't. In 1920s Vancouver, this might have been informants looking for information to sell to the vice squad (ie, evidence of bootlegging, gambling, prostitution, or illicit drugs) or it could have been labour spies keeping tabs on union activists.
Source: Vancouver Sun, 20 July 1928
