“Four Out of Seven Admit Their Guilt,” Ottawa Citizen. November 12, 1940. Page 03.
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Four out of seven men arrested early Monday morning by police officers in radio cars pleaded guilty when arraigned before M. J. O’Connor, K.C., deputy magistrate. The three who pleaded not guilty were remanded until Nov. 19, as were the others for sentence. Other charges will be laid and there is a possibility of one or two other arrests.
At 1.35 a.m., Constables Lester J. Routhliffe, Thomas J. Walsh, Eric A. MacDonald, and Harold B. Norton, in answer to a telephone call that men were acting in a suspicious manner around a drug store on Osgoode street, made a quick run and arrested Paul Hogue, 22 years, 239 Wilbrod street; Wilfred Belliveau, 17 years, 164 Besserer street, and Lucien Latulippe, 20 years, 127 Cumberland street.
The store had not been entered but hidden nearby Constables Walsh and Routliffe found a pinchbar, a wood chisel and flashlight. Subsequently Paul Emile Jobin, 20 years, 211E St. Patrick street, Alfred Bureau, 18 years, 192 Boteler street; Lucian Belliveau, 19 years, 164 Besserer street, and Hector Roy, 43 years, 57 1/2 Clarence street, were picked up.
In court, the first three arrested were charged with being in possession, by night, of instruments of shopbreaking. Hogue and Wilfrid Belliveau pleaded guilty and Latulippe not guilty. All were remanded until Tuesday, Nov. 19.
Jobin, Hogue, and Lucien Belliveau were charged with breaking into the store of Henri T. Godbout, 159 Rideau street, on Oct. 24, and stealing cigarets valued at $11.10. Hogue and Belliveau pleaded guilty, and Jobin not guilty. They, too, were remanded until Nov. 19.
Bureau pleaded guilty to being in possession of cigarets to the value of 20 cents which he knew had been obtained by shopbreaking. He was remanded until Thursday, Nov. 14, for sentence.
Roy, charged with being in possession of stolen cigarets to the value of $2, pleaded not guilty and was remanded until Nov. 19.