“Manitoba-To-Ontario Highway Completed,” Winnipeg Tribune. April 8, 1932. Page 3.
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Completion of the Trans-Canada highway from Whitemouth to the Ontario boundary was announced today by the good roads branch. The last work was done Saturday.
The section east from Whitemouth was let in three contracts and the eastern portion was uncompleted at the freeze-up last fall. The road will not be officially opened until July, although travel will likely be permitted as soon as the gravelling the work can be completed this spring.
Engineers of the road branch were today obtaining report on the condition of the provincial trunk highways for spring travel. The ban on truck transportation is now enforced.
“Fiendish Killer Sought In Blizzard-Swept Area,” Kingston Whig-Standard. January 30, 1932. Page 1.
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Six of Family Slain in Manitoba — Victims Hacked to Death With Axe or Knife
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ELMA, Man., Jan. 30. — In blizzard swept South-eastern Manitoba, a fiendish killer is fleeing from a posse of provincial and local policemen. Early today police had no trace of the slayer of Martin Sitar and his wife and four children in their farm house near here.
Efforts of the police were directed towards locating Thomas Hreckhoise, 23-year-oId farm hand, and nephew of Martin Sitar, who has been missing since discovery of the crime early yesterday morning.
The murder was one of the most brutal in criminal annals of Western Canada. Of the seven occupants of the little farm house, apart from Hrechkoise, only one is alive today and he, a four-year-old boy, hovers between life and death in a Winnipeg hospital.
The victims were literally hacked to death with an axe or a large knife. The house was set afire and the door barred from the outside with large pieces of wood. There was some Indication a shot might have been discharged at close range at the father Martin Sitar.
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A Manitoba man has been charged after allegedly using guns in a threatening manner and having a total of 18 firearms in his possession.
A Manitoba man has been charged after allegedly using guns in a threatening manner and having a total of 18 firearms in his possession.
On Sunday at 3:15 a.m., Whitemouth RCMP responded to a residence in Elma, east of Winnipeg, after receiving a report of a male who had returned to a house party with firearms and was acting irrationally.
Once police arrived the suspect had left the house, but officers heard multiple gunshots near the area.
Witnesses told RCMP that the suspect had a handgun and a semi-automatic rifle. Due to this description and the number of shots officers heard, several neighbouring RCMP detachments were called to the area in an attempt to locate the suspect.
The male suspect’s truck was found at a residence just north of Elma and the scene was quickly contained by police.
At 10:15 a.m., the suspect exited the residence and was placed into custody without incident.
A search warrant for the property was granted and the RCMP located a total of 18 firearms, including the one suspected to have been used in this offence, an AR-15. Police also found a prohibited 30 round magazine and a prohibited 20 round magazine with 20 rounds loaded.
Trevor Ewanochko, 42, from the RM of Whitemouth has been charged with 33 counts of various weapons and threat-related offences.
To help locate the suspect the RCMP also deployed its Critical Incident Command Post, Tactical Armoured Vehicle, Emergency Response Team and Police Dog Services.
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