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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 29, 1970

Page

3

Three Men in Quebec Kidnap Plot Arrested

In Montreal a coroner's inquest resumes next Monday into Pierre Laporte's murder as Paul Rose 27 Jacques Rose 23 and Francis Simard 23 are jailed for conspiring to kidnap and kill Laporte. Michel Viger held for possible charges after guiding police to a hidden farm house hideout.

Montreal Quebec Pierre Laporte Laporte Paul Rose Jaques Francis Simard Maurice St. Pierre Michel Viger Jerome Choquette Viger Montreal Gazette Choquette Quebec Liberation Front James R. Cross Cross Cuba Rose Brothers Simard Jacques Ferron

Russell Gets Term and Fine in Larceny Case

Russell, 28, of Indian Alley, was sentenced in Winchester to six months in jail and a $500 fine for grand larceny in the Dec 8 1969 case linked to the death of Edgar Thomas Chambers. He will serve two months, then three years probation with the balance suspended, per Judge Elliott D. Marshall.

John Wayne Russell Indian Alley Edgar Thomas Chambers Chambers Winchester Corporation Court Elliott D. Marshall Russell Marshall William M. Mote Mote William Blair Myers Handley Ave Dorothy Bailey Arnold N. Braddock St

Shopping for the Handicapped runs in London district

A Rotary club in Hammersmith sponsors Shopping for the Handicapped. Aged and disabled people are driven by ambulances buses and cars to stores on King Street staffed by volunteers who keep the shops open after hours on select evenings.

London Hammersmith King Street

Redistricting session eyed expansion of Rules Committees

Virginia lawmakers discuss enlarging power of Senate and House Rules Committees during the special redistricting session opening next Wednesday. The plan allows introducing non‑essential bills, potentially extending the six week session as leadership weighs reform and census shifts.

Assembly Richmond General Assembly Senate House Rules Committee Linwood Holton

Missing Lifeboat Brings Hope in Panamanian Sinking

Coast Guard and a Norwegian freighter joined search efforts after the Panamanian tanker Chryssi sank 270 miles southwest of Bermuda. Twenty one crewmen remained missing in an unaccounted fourth lifeboat while 17 others were rescued. The vessel, built in 1953, had four lifeboats with one destroyed at launch and another capsized.

New York Chryssi Bermuda Coast Guard Elizabeth City N.C Escanaba Bethlehem Steel Co Quincy Mass Geneva

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