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the-damnable-fool · 11 months

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Dracula (2020), the most disappointing piece of media I've ever seen

This fury has been rotting into my brain for at least two years now, so now I'm going to subject you to it. This is going to be a very long rant/critique/violent catharsis.

Netflix's Dracula miniseries is a three episode series starring Claes Bang, Dolly Wells, and John Hefferman. The show ran for three episodes and was written by Stephen Moffat. You may recognize him as the longtime writer for a relatively insignificant little program known as "Doctor Who".

Episode one presents us with an interesting and well executed premise. Jonathan Harker, scarred and deformed from his encounter with the eponymous Dracula, recounts his experience to Sister Agatha Van Helsing. Much of what transpires is based heavily on the events of the original novel, though you may have already gleaned from the name "Agatha Van Helsing" that some creative liberties have been taken. I won't spoil much, since I believe this episode to be worth watching. Suffice to say that the whole of the main cast is great, Harker and Agatha Van Helsing doubly so, and there's some excellent special effects work being done.

Episode two is, by and large, my favorite episode of the lot. Because of that, I'll speak even less of it. The entire episode is framed as a murder mystery aboard a boat which Dracula himself recounts to Agatha Van Helsing, which is an interesting parallel to draw with the first episode. Dracula is, obviously, the murderer, but the actual twist is truly unexpected. Agatha Van Helsing is one of those rare and delightful characters that comes across as genuinely witty, intelligent, and dangerous in all the best ways. There's very few times a character has done something and I've thought to myself "wow, that makes perfect sense, but I never would've thought to do it". She's a treat, and that wonderful character writing makes every interaction between her and Dracula come across as a devilish battle of wits. What's more, there's some genuinely heartfelt and emotional moments between the background characters that stick with me to this day.

Then you hit the cutoff point.

If you've liked the series so far, and have become attached to its tone, characters, and general quality of writing, you should stop watching five minutes before the ending of the second episode. Unless you want to be disappointed in the worst sort of way I would encourage you to cut your losses, switch off your TV, say to yourself "Damn, that was a really good two-part movie", and move on. It is not worth it. You have been warned.

Beyond this point there be spoilers.

So Episode Fucking Three

Up until now, the series had been doing a great job of constructing some very compelling, well written, and likeable characters. Agatha Van Helsing in particular was genuinely intelligent, witty, bitingly cynical, and had a character dynamic with Dracula that could only be described as "If we weren't diametrically morally opposed to one another, we'd be fucking". The crewmen of the ship they came in on were, while not heavily characterized, very human and easy to sympathize with. Johnathan Harker was both tragic and heroic while he lasted and, while I don't remember much of Mina, I remember liking her well enough. So, what do you do with a slam dunk roster of characters like that?

Well, you kill them all off in an offscreen time jump of course!

Episode three takes place in modern London and I immediately hate it. Agatha, my favorite character, is gone, as are all of the characters we've come to know and love. In their place is Agatha's indirect descendant, played by the same actress and so woefully boring that I don't remember her name at time of writing, and a couple of other generic stooges. There's a junior researcher at the facility, a couple of wildly shallow club-girl side characters that he pines after, and a few others that I forget.

If I'm completely honest with you, I didn't watch the entirety of episode three, and you'll see why in a second.

So the episode starts. We open up on Dracula, soaking wet and crawling out of the ocean on the shore of modern day London. He's immediately surrounded by a group of mercenaries armed with cameras, a helicopter, and conventional firearms, along with our new Agatha Van Helsing wannabe. Long story short, he kills a mercenary and escapes into the city as day breaks, has his cliche little "woah I'm immortal and experiencing the modern world for the first time" bit, and then gets captured in the sloppiest way imaginable.

Turns out, Mina spent the vast majority of her inherited money on creating a foundation in memory of John Harker with the specific purpose of locating and containing Dracula. It's sort of like the Foundation from the SCP universe except they only contain one mildly boring, vaguely bisexual anomaly. They've got money, professional mercenaries, trained scientists, a secret Dracula holding chamber specifically for holding Dracula, the works.

So Dracula gets dragged into the Dracula containment chamber, and this thing is the real deal. Constructed of bulletproof plexiglass and steel, able to be remotely exposed to sunlight at any time, surrounded by open floor and armed mercenaries, it's pretty safe to say that this Dracula containment chamber is easily the finest chamber ever constructed with the sole intention of containing Dracula. All he's got is a table, a chemical toilet, and an ipad loaded with digital books. He gets fed blood through a tube at regular intervals and occasionally gets poked at by researchers trying to figure out just what the fuck he is.

Now, by this point, we the audience were doing our best to get back onboard. Sure, our favorite characters were gone, save for the villain, and sure, the tone had taken a weird lurch with the time jump, but that was all fine. Just have Agatha's great great grand-niece be just as charming as she was and we can all have a grand time watching Dracula masterfully manipulate his way out of the Dracula time-out box. We've seen his guile before, so we're all primed and ready for another fantastic battle of wits, just like on the boat.

But that doesn't happen.

What follows is a brief summary of events that happen in the episode in vaguely chronological order. By reading it you may be made privy to the sudden and utter incompetence of the new lead character and to the wildly stupid turn that the writing took in episode three.

The Harker Foundation finds Draculas coffin at the bottom of the sea in the wreckage of the ship from episode two. For no good reason, Agatha's descendant (the director of this foundation) personally goes to scuba dive into the ocean to take a look at the unconscious Drac.

Also for no good goddamn reason, she sticks her whole ass thumb in his mouth to feel his fangs. He bites her thumb off instinctively, giving him the small amount of blood he needs to reawaken. That's one instance of complete incompetence before the ten minute mark.

Instead of recovering the coffin immediately, the Foundation pulls back and waits on shore with armed mercenaries until night falls hours later. Why they don't just nab him immediately while hes sleeping, I don't know, but I'll count that as a second instance of complete incompetence.

Drac escapes and kills some people, including a few mercenaries. It is established that the Foundation has the power and influence to make these deaths disappear.

Drac is transported to the Dracula holding chamber.

In the course of less than 24 hours, Dracula FIGURES OUT HOW A TABLET WORKS, GUESSES THE FUCKING WIFI PASSWORD BECAUSE ITS HIS FUCKING NAME, AND SKYPE CALLS THE LAW FIRM THAT USED TO REPRESENT HIM TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

Do you see why I was furious? Do you see why my friends and I stood up and yelled at the TV screen? Do you see why we turned it off immediately? Do you see why I want to hit Stephen Moffat with a chair?

Needless to say, the lawyer takes a call from someone claiming to be a man that employed his firm two centuries prior completely seriously. He walks directly into the facility with no explanation as to how he found out where it was or why the guards let him past, and threatens to sue the Foundation if they continue to hold his client against his will.

The inferior Agatha throws up her hands and says "welp, guess we gotta let him go" and just. Let's Dracula leave. No consideration for the consequences of doing so beforehand. No thought given to the possibility that they might simply inform the relevant authorities that he'd killed people that very night and therefore should be contained and studied. They just fuckin' let him leave.

So lets recount all the insane leaps of logic that need to have transpired in order for this to happen.

One, Dracula would need to have figured out how the internet works within the span of 24 hours despite having only just learned that electricity existed. I'll give that a pass since its implied he can absorb knowledge by drinking blood.

Two, Dracula would have to guess the wifi password for this top secret, high security facility... Which is literally just DRACULA. Why the fuck was it set to his name? Why was he given a tablet that's physically capable of connecting to wifi? Why didn't the mercenaries that guard him at all times not see him using Skype and say "Hmm, maybe we should stop him from doing that"? Moreover, why the fuck does the room he's contained in even have wifi? Isn't everything I just said a massive security oversight for an organization that's poured millions into this containment facility?

Three, Dracula's lawyer would have to believe that an unknown, unsolicited caller, who has neither modern means of identifying himself nor any records verifying his existence for over two hundred years, is genuinely a client of his from two hundred years ago in need of legal counsel. Furthermore, Dracula would need to have some way of communicating his exact location to this man.

Four, the security teams responsible for keeping the facility safe and free of intruders would have to not only let this lawyer into a top secret facility based solely on his own claim that his client was inside, but let him directly into the main holding chamber that is under constant guard all without so much as warning the fucking director of the Facility.

Five, the director of this facility would have had to completely thrown out any alternative to letting a known mass murdering superbeing out of confinement despite full knowledge of what that would entail. They could've just fought the battle in court. It's easy to prove that he needs to be locked up when you can show the judge the bodies of the people he killed that day. Even if that's too much trouble, why not pop the lawyer in the back of the skull and make him disappear like the mercenary? Or Dracula's victims? It can't be that hard if you've done it three times this episode.

It's the kind of twist you would expect out of a piece of satire, not an actual, serious work written by an accredited writer. To this day I have not seen any other work of fiction take such a sudden and sharp decline in quality, and I doubt that I ever will again. It's as though the writers intentionally made every character at least thirty percent stupider just for the sake of giving Dracula his "gotcha".

So what went wrong?

Honestly, I think that the writers mistook their villain for the main character of the series, which ultimately just doesn't work. Sure, we love Dracula. We didn't come to watch the Dracula show out of our rabid love for Johnathan Harker, we came for the big scary villain. The problem is that a villain still has to be a villain. While we do love him, we don't root for him, we root for the people that oppose him despite the odds. They killed off every recurring character except for Dracula and changed the setting and tone so massively that it was completely unrecognizable from the first two episodes, and they did this because they thought the audience be invested enough in this villain for it not to matter. Not only did it backfire, but the ridiculous amount of plot mandated stupidity and Deus Ex Machina that it took to get Dracula out of his first jam in that new setting completely killed any further drive that I had to continue watching.

This lazy twist not only made the main characters look incompetent, it made Dracula look lame. He's the Prince of Darkness. The fucking Nightwalker. The King of Vampires does not call his fucking lawyer.

Anyway, I'm finished with my rant now. Congrats on sticking it out this long. There's no prize or anything.

#dracula 2020 #dracula spoilers #jonathan harker #agatha van helsing #dracula #media critique #long

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cornucopiaradio · 1 year

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Spring is a magical time of year; when bountiful possibility appears in front of us, and everything is reborn brand new. So to celebrate the start of the season, we’ve created a lush #soundscape #videomontgae, mixing classical spring poetry, sounds of nature and amazing instrumental musical pieces. It’s all designed to take you to a place more magical than here…

So every #spring, I like to share this beautiful collection of #poetry, #wildlife & #nature we created many years ago. I hope it personally helps you feel the rebirth & positivity this time of year can bring.

Find all the production details via our website:

http://www.cornucopia-radio.co.uk/spring-poetry

CREDITS Performed By Christopher Bellamy & Jeannie McGinnis Produced and Edited by Peter Beeston This work is released under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license

TRACK LISTING

Spring by John Clare / Alexandre Klinke – Solitude

A Light Exists in Spring by Emily Dickinson / Kevin MacLeod – Meditation Impromptu

Spring Carol by Robert Louis Stevenson / Jon Luc Hefferman – Curious

The First Spring Day by Christina Rossetti / Kai Engell – Summer Days

One Day In Spring by Rabindranath Tagore / Raphae – Eor Ir Itum

Spring Quiet by Christina Rossetti / Alistair Cameron – Gymnopedie

My Bonnie Blue by Robert Burns / Aislinn – Dusty window

There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale / Zinaida Trokai – The Spirit of Russian Love

End Credits Music / Josh Woodward – Sleep Well My Dear

#poetry #classical poetry #romantic poetry #sping #springtime #nature #wildlife #meadow #videomontage #relaxing #music poetry #spoken word #reading #spring poem #sunshine #flowers #mixtape #music #instrumental

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annabolina · 2 years

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If there is one thing that Becoming Elizabeth has going for it, even when it’s not good at all, it’s the acting.

You might not enjoy the Thomas Seymour plot, but you can not take your eyes off Tom Cullen because he is that good, just absolutely mesmerizing, that man put his soul into this role and I thank him for it.

Romola Garai is a powerhouse and deserves a second season by herself, that’s it.

John Hefferman impressed me so much this last episode, him signing the paper ordering his brother’s death? He did more with his hands than most actors do with their whole face. Talking of his face, he was devastating in his attempts to reason with his brother.

And Jamie Parker is having the time of his life playing John Dudley and so am I watching him, we thank you for your service sir.

Anyway, I know none of them will get any recognition come awards season but if there was any justice, they would.

#WHICH ALSO MAKES ME REALIZE MOST OF THEM WILL BE GONE BY THE END OF THE SEASON AND......#THEY BETTER BE THIS LUCKY WITH CASTING NEW ACTORS FOR S2 #CAUSE JAMIE IS DOING GOOD AS ROBERT #BUT ALICIA IS VERY HIT OR MISS #IT'S THE OLDER CAST THAT REALLY MAKES YOU GO 'DAMN'#BECOMING ELIZABETH #BECOMING ELIZABETH SPOILERS

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kwebtv · 2 years

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Brides of Christ - ABC (Aus) - September 4, 1991 - October 9, 1991

Drama / Miniseries (6 episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

The Nuns:

Brenda Fricker as Sister Agnes

Sandy Gore as Mother Ambrose

Josephine Byrnes as Diane/Sister Josephine

Lisa Hensley as Veronica/Sister Paul

Melissa Jaffer as Sister Attracta

Penny Stehli as Sister Patrick

Joy Hruby as Sister Polycarp

Caroline Gillmer as Sister Philomena

Beth Champion Sister Clare

Michelle Pettigrove as Sister Francine

The Girls:

Naomi Watts as Frances Hefferman

Kym Wilson as Rosemary Fitzgerald

Melissa Thomas as Bridget Maloney

Pippa Grandison as Bernadette

Kirsty McGregor as Caroline

Vanessa Collier as Jacinta

Others:

Simon Burke as Jack Delahunty

Philip Quast as Ian MdGregor

Mary MaloneyPat Bishop as Mary Maloney

Russell Crowe as Dominic Maloney

Anne Tenney as Liz Hefferman

Michael Winchester as Martin Tierney

#Brides of Christ #ABC #Drama #1990's #TV #Brenda Fricker #Sandy Gore #Josephine Byrnes #Lisa Hensley #Melissa Jaffer

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insanethrottlebikernews · 6 months

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Hells Angels members sentenced to prison for murder, illegal cremation

2 California Hells Angels members were sentenced to prison for their participation in a criminal enterprise that included the murder and illegal cremation of another Hells Angels member. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Jeremy Greer, 43, of the Sonoma County Hells Angels, was sentenced to 7 years for violent crimes. Merl Hefferman, 54, of the Fresno Hells Angels, was…

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#bandidos mc #Biker News #biker news 1%#bikie news #hells angels #Hells Angels members sentenced to prison for murder #illegal cremation #insane throttle #motorcycle club #outlaw biker news 1%#Outlaw MC #outlaws Motorcycle club

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qudachuk · 6 months

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US prosecutors allege Merl Hefferman, 54, illegally cremated up to four members killed by the group at a California funeral homeFederal prosecutors say that a former Hells Angels boss disposed of the bodies of up to four of the...

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daydreamerdrew · 10 months

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excerpt from “From ‘It Could Happen to Someone You Love’ to ‘Do You Speak Ass?’: Women and Discourses of Sex Education in Erotic Film and Video” by Kevin Hefferman, published in The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure edited by Tristan Taormino, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Constance Penley, and Mireille Miller-Young

#on sex #on censorship #my posts #book excerpts

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essayly · 1 year

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Group Behavior in Organizations (Must Answer Both Questions)

Group Behavior in Organizations (Must Answer Both Questions) QUESTION 1 – Cooperation and Conflict (Chapter 7) After viewing the video TEDTalks: Margaret Heffernan—Dare to Disagree (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and engaging in a conflict management assessment (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., post a statement (per Hefferman’s guidance) that you…

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remixinc · 1 year

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FLIPPER'S SKATE HEIST | The Official Chronic Skate by Dr. Dre from Ben Dean on Vimeo.

If you had the chance to get your hands on something the world had never seen before… would you let the moment pass you by? Or would you risk it all and take what’s yours?

Writer/Director: Ben Dean Executive Producers: Jason Cole, Danielle Hinde Producers: Jeremy Sullivan, Joselo Hernandez, Campbell Von Beal, Laney Camenga DP: Patrick Golan Production Company: Doomsday Entertainment Production Service Companies: THE LIFT (Mexico City), FRIEND (London) Camera Operator: Connor O'Brien

Post: Editing Company: Cabin Editorial Editor: Sam Ostrove Post Producers: Michelle Dorsch and Britt Carson

Color Company: Company3 Colorist: Tom Poole

VFX: Shape & Light

Sound Design and Mix: Raphael Ajuelos Foley: Nathan Bonetto

OCP Cast: Robber #1: Anastasia Lovera Robber #2: Tyreece Boyce

Mexico Crew: Producer (The Lift): Joselo Hernandez Production Service Company: THE LIFT Managing Director: Avelino Rodríguez Managing Partner: José Barrera MX EP: Pablo Chozas Production Manager: Arturo Peña Production Coordinator: Renata Hernández

1st AD: Paco Llaca 2nd AD: César Arjona 2nd 2nd AD: Belén Duarte Script Supervisor: Karla Roldán Storyboard: Rubén Nava Rodríguez

Camera Operator: Connor O'Brien 1st AC: Horacio Vega 2nd AC: Manuel García Hernández

Drone Op: Daniel Villagomez

Gaffer: Vladimir Martínez Gómez Key Grip: José de Jesús Sotelo Best Boy Electric: José Luis Calixto Valverde

BTS: Paul Billingsley

Production Designer: Emilia Dávila Art Director: Maria Victoria Centurion Set Decorator: Tomas Lecot Art Coordinator: Tamara Puga Art Assistant: Alejandro Pineda Hernandez Construction: Arturo del Moral Angeles SPFVX Glass: Jorge Cuitláhuac Farfan, Alfonso Benjamin Pacheco, Arturo San Vicente Curtidor, Omar Mauricio Duran Olvera Skate Fixer: Emmanuel Addi Sánchez

Prop Master: Emanuel Buendía

Yanga Casting: Paola Gómez Casting Director: Valentina Bouchot Casting & Extras Coord.: Gil Rodríguez

Stunts Coordinator: Pablo Vinos Stunts Assist.: Hugo Aguilera Stunts: Esteban Muñoz, Gad Cruz Riggers: Jason Rodriguez, Edueardo Blanco

Stylist: Lillian Dilustro Wardrobe Stylist: Paola Alfaro Wardrobe Coord.: Fernando Capurro Suárez Wardrobe Assistants: Angel Susarrey, Yull Gonzalez Hair Stylist: Carlos Arreola Hair Stylist Assistant: Christian F. Alvarez Make Up: Jorge Ramírez Make up Assistant: Johan Vera

Pixel Digital Services: Jafet Gamboa Lopez DIT: Luis Aldana Meza VTR Operator: Juan M. Hernadez Mauri VTR Assistant: Everson Negrete Valadez

Sound: Gerson Escudero

SFX: Alejandro Solin SFX Assistants: Tomás Alejandro Castillo, Rodolfo Soto Guzman, Armando Castillo Álvarez

Picture Cars Coordinator Ernesto Mata Picture Cars Assistants: Francisco Vallarino, Ivan Huerta Precision Car: Ulises Guzmán

BG Cast: Robber #3: Renee Costello Robber #4: Rodrigo Paulo Skaters: Alison Rocha, Samantha Coronel, Salvador Sandoval Guards: Carlos Reyna, Leopoldo Dublic, Gearnys, Alan, Precious Emmarock, Jon Roberts, Fernando Daguerre, Jesus Osiris, Fernando Martín Del Campo, Daniel Veloz, Constantino Caso Stunts: Gad Cruz, Esteban Muñoz, Adi

London Crew: Production Service Company: FRIEND EP: Chris Abitbol Producer: Campbell Von Beaton DP: David Procter Production Manager: Natalie Uglow Production Assistant: Alice Kommu

1st AD: Chris Malin 2nd AD: Lawrence Azoulay

Focus Puller: Sam Rawlings 2nd AC: Andy Jones Grip: David Bradshaw Video Playback: Charlie Gibson DIT: Kier Garnett Lawson

Gaffer: Sol Saihati Electrician: Christian Hayes Rigger: Emily Hefferman

Art Director: Sofia Saccomani

Client: Client / Agency: Interscope Records, Flipper’s Label Producers: Jimmy Iovine, Liberty Ross, Jared Shelton, Andrew Ibea, Michelle An

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 2 years

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“Drew Extra Terms For Jumping Jail,” North Bay Nugget. July 8, 1932. Page 2. ---- Five Escaped Prisoners From Burwash Appear in Sudbury Court ---- Sudbury, July 8— Alfred Ertal [TOP] and William Hefferman [MIDDLE], who pleaded guilty this morning to escaping from Burwash Industrial Farm on July 8, to theft of an automobile and to breaking and entering a farm house, after their escape were each sentenced to two years in Portsmouth Penitentiary, on the escape charge, and to one year in Portsmouth on each of the other two charges sentence to run concurrently. ---- Sudbury, July 8 — (Special)— Five prisoners who escaped from Burwash Industrial Farm within the past two weeks appeared before Magistrate J. S. McKessock in police court here this morning.

George Colbourne, 19, Toronto, [BOTTOM] was sentenced to two years in Portsmouth Penitentiary when he pleaded guilty to breaking and entering the store of the Burwash Industrial Farm on June 27 and stealing a quantity of cigarettes and candy and to escaping from custody on June 28. Colbourne was serving a sentence of two years less one day imposed In Toronto on December 30, 1930, when convicted on five charges of breaking and entering. He had two previous convictions.

Wallace Wood, who escaped with Colbourne, pleaded guilty to sleeping custody on June 28 and to receiving stolen goods, namely the article stolen from the store by Colbourne. He was sentenced to four months additional at Burwash Wood was sentenced to six months definite and 12 months indefinite in Hamilton on August 12, 1931, on each of two charges of theft of a flashlight and taking a car without the owner's permission, sentences to run concurrently.

William Hefferman and Alfred Ertal, who escaped on July 3, elected trial before a judge and jury and were committed. Taken immediately before Judge Edmond Proulx for re-election, they elected speedy trial and pleaded guilty to three charges, that they escaped from custody at Burwash on July 3; that on July 6, they stole an automobile belonging to Charles Butchard, and that on the same date, they did break and enter the house of N. Ristomaki and steal a quantity of clothing. They were remanded until this afternoon for sentence.

Hefferman was convicted in Brockville on May 28, 1931, of theft of a car and was sentenced to one year determinate and one year indeterminate. Ertal was sentenced in Toronto on March 22, 1932, on five charges of forgery and theft and was sentenced to a total of two years determinate and 20 month indeterminate.

Joseph Brindle, who escaped from Burwash with Colbourne and Wood, is still at large. He was serving a sentence for shop-breaking imposed at Hamilton.

Two other escapes were made yesterday afternoon, when Victor Smith, 17, Toronto, serving an 18 months to 30 months sentence for breaking and entering, and Jack Aikens, 19, Hamilton, serving a 12 to 30 months’ sentence for theft, made their getaway by walking Into the bush. They have not yet been apprehended.

Cleveland McKinnon, Sudbury, charged this morning with violation of his parole was remanded one week.

[AL: Top photo is Ertal, aliases Ertel or Hughes, who was 26 at time of conviction, from Elmira, Ontario, a tailor by trade, and single. He had previously been in Burwash twice, Guelph Reformatory, and Kingston Penitentiary twice before - as inmate #202 and #971. In the later term, he took part in a January 1927 strike at the penitentiary. This time around at Kingston Penitentiary he was convict #2721, and worked in the Stone Shed #2, breaking rocks. He supported the strike of October 13, and the strike and riot of October 17-20, 1932, joining because he thought “we should have cigarette papers, tobacco, smoking periods in the shop...the hair allowed to grow, looking glass glass and comb in the cells...more visits and a visiting room; recreation, inside and outside. More letters a month, and to be able to write to anyone we wish....wages for work done in here.” He strongly felt that the discharge suit was inadequate, and more broadly, no discharge money is provided to escaped convicts returned to provincial care. Ertal also felt that the prisoners should get “humane treatment from the officers...the silence system should be demolished, and the paddles done away with....I was in the hole for a month, and it it did me no good...it just makes a man bitter.” He continued to support strikes and protests in the Stone Shed for the next year. He was eventually released back to Burwash in April 1934.

Hefferman (pictured in middle) was 25, single, and from Ireland. He had been in the Michigan State Reformatory, the Guelph Reformatory, Burwash, the Toronto Jail Farm, and at Dorchester Penitentiary as convict #U-1564. He was also known as Robert Burnstein, William Robinson, and William Gordon. At Kingston Penitentiary, he was convict #2722, and worked in the Stone Shed #2 with Ertal, cutting stone. He also supported the strikes and riots of October 1932, wanting the same things as Ertal: cigarette paper, newspapers, recreation, “a concert once in a while...better books, latest magazines.” He was especially concerned about his release money - “I understand the Government is not giving the money to anyone who is going back for an escape...they cut it out. I want my money!” He was angered by the officers “showing favouritism and picking on different inmates.” He told the investigators after the riot that he should never have been put in the Stoned Shed...”I was in the hospital when I first came here. When they came out they put me in the Stone Shed. I asked the doctor for fresh air...I thought I might have got a job around the yard.” He continued to be active in protests and strikes in 1933, and was released back to Burwash in March 1933.

Colbourne (bottom picture) also known as Russell Colborne, was 19 at time of conviction, single, from Cornwall, Ontario, and had been in Burwash before and the Montreal jail. At Kingston Penitentiary, he was convict #2723 and like the other two men worked in the Stone Shed. He too supported the October 1932 strikes and riot, wanting “more recreation...[an end to] rigid censorship...newspapers and everything.” He was especially frustrated that he had to pay for his dental work: “how can any inmate with no money have any dental work done...what is he supposed to do if his teeth are bothering him?” He continued to be a troublemaker until late 1933, and was returned to Burwash April 1934.]

#sudbury #burwash industrial farm #escape from prison #prison break #stolen car #car theft #break and enter #sentenced to prison #sentenced to the penitentiary #escaped prisonrs #kingston penitentiary #great depression in canada #history of crime and punishment in canada #crime and punishment in canada #long criminal record

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