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Be Jealousyi defences areng encountered.” ' ,; Vlc Val *----direc-Casi-away; o link riving foot-Sacco nport-vital miles mean-south ;ast of hot of Far-french f from ver by /ad at ontone o, cap-unitsPress t night bin 18 ch had opposi-'as lim-'ed the e units t major e. On-eported le Irish ! PerthGerman ) •Sniarhe Ro-j broad-y of In-•mations ad car-rn partmilitary e broad 5 caused le weren in the ‘ France Hied air this de-by the that a bombedBREWER, Sask., June 3 (CP)— Four persons are dead and one man is In hospital at Melville today as result of a shooting affair at two farms near here Thursday night • which police said was motivated by jealousy. Death last night of Julius Bella,. 24, wanted for questioning following the deaths of Mrs. Anthony Osicki, 50, and her two daughters, Helen, 19, and Mrs. Jacob Mann, 23, and the wounding of John Woloschuk, a neighboring farmer, ended a day-long manhunt in bushland during a rainstorm.Police said Bella shot himself when cornered by a posse near McKlm, about 125 miles northeast of Regina.FOUND BY DOGCondition of Woloschuk, in Melville .hospital, was reported as “critical” but attendants gave him a fair chance of recovering. ^Twenty Royal Canadian Mounted Police, assisted by the police dog “Dark of Yorkton,” searched heavy woodland for the armed man for almost 24 hours until they spotted him about 10 miles from the scene of the shootings. As the dog went after Bella, a shot was heard, and he was found dead with a bullet wound in his head.Piecing details oi the shooting together since a nine-year-old boy reported finding two women dead on a road near Mrs. Osicki’s farm/*home,, police said Helen Osicki had Den friendly with both Bella arid„ .Woloschuk and that jealously apparently was the motive for the tragedy.Helen Osicki’s body was found in a wagon pushed into brush beside a road. Woloschuk had been shot at his farm home near the Osicki residence. Police were unable to say which of the women had been shot first or whether the Osicki tragedy occurred before or after Weloschuk had been wounded. Mrs. Osicki’s husband was away at the time and police said ttyere apparently was’no eye-witnesses. • •Date of an inquest has not been decided yet.
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Medicine Hat Daily News
Medicine Hat, Alberta, CA
Sat, Jun 03, 1944
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