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Sturgeon Falls Ontario

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“Booths Foreman Was Bold Thief,” Cobalt Daily Nugget. August 4, 1910. Page 7. ---- John Heroux was Sentenced to Three Years --- North Bay, Aug. 4— John Heroux, who has a wife and four children in the township of Field, north of Sturgeon Falls, was sentenced to three years in Kingston penitentiary by Magistrate Bradford at Sturgeon Falls on charges of forgery, perjury and theft. Crown Attoney Browning prosecuted. Heroux was a jobber for J. H. Booth and organised a cunning system of “fraudulent time checks” forged by his clerk, Herman Lavoie, under his orders. About two hundred dollars was secured in this way and so bold did Heroux become at the game that one of dummy workmen instituted lien proceedings against the Booth firm and Heroux swore that the account was due. The company did not dispute that the  work had been done but that the logs had been cut in the wrong places. This action was heard in the division court and the clerk went into the box and acknowledges that the work had not been done at all. This led to Investigation and the criminal charge followed Lavoie was also charged with forgery but in his case sentence was suspended.

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The old Catholic Church in Sturgeon Falls, Ontario

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Sturgeon Falls

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"Indian Goes On Spree And 11 Charges Laid," Kitchener Record. May 14, 1934. Page 8. --- SUDBURY, May 14. - (CP) - When Tom Dukis, treaty Indian from the Dukis Reserve, south of Sturgeon Falls, came to Sudbury last week with more than $500 treaty money in his pocket, he started out on a round of activities which lost him his money and resulted in 11 charges of selling liquor, supplying liquor to an Indian, vagrancy, consuming and theft being laid.

Alphonse Rogue, charged with theft of $400 from Dukis pleaded not guilty and was remanded to May 16 while he was assessed $50 and costs when he admitted supplying liquor to Dukis while similar charges against Lawrence St. Louis, Joe Mailloux, and Harry Jones, were dismissed. Charges of supplying liquor to an Indian were laid by Corporal H. S. Traves of the R.M.P., while other charges which Included a charge of selling liquor against Beatrice Robichaud, charges of consuming against Oliver Legros, Arthur Bergeron and Con- rad Roy and a charge of vagrancy against Simona Leblanc, which were remanded to May 16, were laid by city police.

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"Prisoner For Penitentiary." Kingston Daily Standard. January 3, 1913. Page 2. ---- Yesterday afternoon Edward Blanchard arrived from North Bay to serve three years in the penitentiary for forgery. The prisoner was at one time connected with the local artillery.

[Blanchard was actually sentenced in Sturgeon Falls, close but not that close to North Bay. He was 29, born in France but a 'naturalized' Canadian subject, a book keeper by trade, and also known as Francois DeNeville. He was convict #F-529 at Kingston Penitentiary - pictured in his reception info both before and after having his head shaved as per prison regulation. He worked in an industrial shop. He was never reported for any infraction of the prison rules, and was released in late 1915.]

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"Paul Layer, aged 14 or 16 according to varied reports, sentenced by Magistrate Bradford, of Sturgeon Falls to two years in the Kingston Penitentiary on a charge of forgery. was taken to that institution last week by Deputy Sheriff, Homer Varin. Warden Platt of the penitentiary objected to taking young Layer as too young to be incarcerated with the brand of criminals to be found in Kingston pen, and reported the matter to the Minister of Justice so that Layer could be transferred to a reformatory. Layer's crime consisted in raising a money order and forging signatures to the same after he had raised the amount." - from the Cobalt Daily Nugget. April 10, 1912. Page 8.