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if-you-fan-a-fire · 1 year

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"SEND SIX TO PRISON FOR THEFT," North Bay Nugget. May 18, 1943. Page 14. ---- Two Get Penitentiary Terms for Stealing Auto in Mattawa --- Phillippe Grenier [TOP] and Ormond Foubert, both of Montreal, were found guilty when they appeared before Magistrate M. G. Gould in North Bay police court on Monday afternoon on a charge of stealing a car in Mattawa on April 28. Each was sentenced to two years and three months in Kingston penitentiary.

Isadore Grenier, Andre Coursol, Gregor Larocque and Fernand Beausoleil, also of Montreal, charged jointly with the first two men were given sentences of one year each at Burwash Industrial Farm. Coursol pleaded guilty; the others, not guilty.

Heavier sentences were handed out to the first two because each had a previous conviction on a theft charge.

Three witnesses were heard. Murray Kolvinko of Mattawa, owner of the car, told of seeing the six in Mattawa on the morning of the theft, of talking with them and of identifying them later in a Toronto police station.

Mrs. Amy Granfield of Toronto identified two of the accused as being members of a party of six who had parked a car behind a garage at the rear of her property on April 28 and had failed to return for it.

Joseph Shield, a member of the Toronto detective force, told of the arrest on the afternoon of April 28, of the six near where the car was abandoned and very soon after that took place. He told also of finding on the person of one of the accused a number of "postage due" stamps used by the owner of the car in his duties as mail courier. Found also in a cell occupied by the accused had been ration books bearing the name of the victim of the theft.

Before passing sentence, Magistrate Gould said: "While the failure of the accused to give evidence is by no means conclusive against them, still it is a matter to be considered, when joined to the fact that all five who pleaded not guilty were found in Toronto with the one who pleaded guilty and also with the fact that two of them have been definitely identified." Continuing the magistrate said that identification was sufficient to involve all six in the theft.

Crown Attorney E. A. Tilley conducted the prosecution and Arthur Courtmanche was interpreter.

[AL: Grenier was 22, married, a truck driver and had served a two year term at St Vincent de Paul Penitentiary. He was convict #7309 at Kingston Penitentiary and worked in a broom factory - he was transferred August 1943 to Collin's Bay Penitentiary, the lower security camp. There he was inmate #2109 and was released February 1945. Foubert was 22, single, a construction welder by trade, and had done time in Montreal and Ontario prisons. He was convict #7310 at Kingston Penitentiary and worked in the change room. He was a difficult prisoner and reported five times for insolence or poor conduct. He was transferred August 1944 to Collin's Bay Penitentiary, and released in early 1945.]

#north bay #montreal #police court #mattawa #car theft #car thieves #stolen car #youth gang #ex-convict #jailbirds #french canadians #sentenced to the penitentiary #kingston penitentiary #sentenced to prison #burwash industrial farm #canada during world war 2 #crime and punishment in canada #history of crime and punishment in canada #northern ontario

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nofeelingisfinall · 10 months

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oh, to be in love with life. oh, to be in love with love.

[angels in america, tony kushner || rainer maria rilke || jojo rabbit, dir. taika waititi || the thing is, ellen bass || joseph campbell || enough, ellen bass || andrew garfield || agatha christie || fleabag, phoebe waller-bridge || the deepest sighs, the frankest of shadows, gang of youths || the heart is a muscle, gang of youths || andrea gibson]

#angels in america #tony kushner #taika waititi #jojo rabbit #fleabag #rainer maria rilke #web weaving #ellen bass #joseph campbell #andrew garfield #agatha christie #phoebe waller bridge #gang of youths #andrea gibson

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bitter69uk · 5 months

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In Memoriam: the great outsider queer Swiss photographer and committed aficionado of firm male flesh Karlheinz Weinberger (10 June 1921 – 10 December 2006) died on this day. He specialized in documenting Elvis-worshiping rockabilly and motorcycle gang subcultures in the sixties and seventies, taking smoldering homoerotic portraits of sullen leather-clad thugs posed like defiant peacocks. It was reading John Waters’ voluble praise that turned me on to Weinberger’s work in the first place, and I am eternally grateful. One regret: I wish I’d snapped up the 2011 coffee table book Rebel Youth when it first came out. It’s slipped out of print since and copies now go for over £100 on eBay! Pictured: portrait of a young greaser punk by Karlheinz Weinberger, 1962.

#karlheinz weinberger #rebel youth #john waters #lobotomy room #rockabilly #greaser punk #biker gang #motorcycle gang #homoerotic #queer #lgbtqia #leather jacket lover

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ilovedirt · 6 months

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(through gritted teeth) life is a worthy opponent . . . life is a worthy opponent . . . life is a worthy opponent . . .

#Achilles come down #gang of youths #jams #warriors pact #warriors bond #etc #etc etc

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brightdeadthing · 2 years

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natalie wee / john patrick shanley / gang of youths / antoine de saint-exupéry / christopher anderson / richard siken / richard curtis / robin beth schaer / jen mazza / nikki giovanni / rita dove

#just. love and life being messy and violent and worth the sacrifice. idk #web weaving #on love #poetry #parallels #quotes #compilation #richard siken #le petit prince #natalie wee #love actually #gang of youths #nikki giovanni #jen mazza #rita dove #yes this is a repost bc i forgor to tag the last one like an IDIOT #also hello i am alive. more to come soon #//

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 4 years

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“YOUTHFUL BANDITS APPEAR FOR SENTENCES,” Montreal Star. January 9, 1930. Page 3. ---- Montreal's bandit gang whose exploits were compared to those of the two Menard brothers by Judge Enright in sentencing them today. He said the law might be beaten for a the but would win in the long run. Left to right: Lillian Davis, 19, of Montreal, involved in 10 hold-ups, Robert Benson, 18, gang leader, who took part in 11 hold-ups. He asked the judge for permission to marry Miss Davis and exonerated her from all but three hold-ups. Alexander O'Conner, alias Clarke, 17 years, involved in seven hold-ups. Hobert Flaherty, 16, in seven hold-ups. Walter Cosgrove, 18, in three holds-ups the same night and Patrick Murphy, 19, involved in seven hold-ups.

“GIRL BANDIT WEEPS AS SENTENCE GIVEN,” Montreal Star. January 9, 1930. Page 3 & 31. ---- Clings to Leader of Group Who Makes Offer to Marry Her ---- COURT IS POWERLESS --- Members of Youthful Gang Get Terms of Two to 10 Years ---- Sentences from two to 10 years in the penitentiary were meted out this morning by Judge Enright in the Police Court to a group of young men and one woman, who were found guilty of a series of hold-ups which took place recently in Montreal. With them was the now well-known 18-year-old girl bandit. Lillian Davis, who received a seven year prison sentence.

The sentences were:

Robert Benson, 10 years, penitentiary.

Lillian Davis, 7 years in prison.

Patrick Murphy, 6 years, penitentiary

Robert Flaherty, 5 years. penitentiary.

Alex. O'Connor (alias Clarke), 5 years, penitentiary.

Walter Cograve, 2 years, penitentiary,

With the exception of Benson, reputed leader of the gang, and Lillian Davis, the woman he wants to marry, the parents of the accused were present. The influence of the girl on the others was emphasized by the parents, and even the magistrate described her as "hardboiled."

TENSE ATMOSPHERE. As is usual when a severe sentence is about to be pronounced, the atmosphere of the court room was tense, and a particularly sad aspect was the pleading by the parents for lighter sentences. The romance of Benson for the girl seemed little checked by the austere court atmosphere, but she lost her apathetic attitude after the seven year sentence and wept unrestrainedly on Benson's shoulder after the pronouncement.

Leniency was extended to Cograve because he had only become a member of the gang on the day of his arrest, but he had within that period carried out three hold-ups. He was under the influence of liquor continually, he declared.

Preceding the pronouncement of sentences, Judge Enright delivered a severe lecture, pointing out to the prisoners the futility of crime. They had adopted the plan, conceived since time immemorial, of living on "an easy system." They had tried to beat the law, and had failed, as invariably happens.

The most dramatic scene produced during the reading of sentences was that caused by Murphy's father, telling how he had endeavored to locate his son and had looked everywhere in Montreal for him during the past three weeks that he had been absent from home. He blamed Lillian Davis for his son's downfall. The son left his position with the Bell Telephone Company to follow his new found friends, the father said.

BLAMES GIRL. Pointing his finger in the direction of Lillian Davis and referring to her as "that thing there" he said his son had been dragged down by her. "I got wind of him being in a house on Sherbrooke street west and followed him there, but he evaded me," the father said in relating the constant search he had made for his son during the three weeks preceding his arrest.

Nobody defended the woman, except Benson, who interrupted the court, in the reading of his sentence, to such an extent that the court had to tell him to stop interrupting. "She is not guilty of all the crimes she admitted," he told the court, and then again: “She is not so bad as any of us or as they say she is."

He reiterated his statement of wanting to marry the woman standing beside him in the dock, but the court passed over this and proceeded to pronounce sentence against the other members of the gang. The magistrate characterized the woman as "hardboiled."

She had met Benson five months ago. He came from Boston, Mass., he said, and had been working honestly in this city for almost a year when he met Lillian Davis. Although the woman was only 18 years and Benson 19, she was much more developed mentally, in the opinion of the court.

HAD FREEDOM. One of the prisoners, Murphy was arrested on November 1 for the theft of an automobile, and in view of his youth, freed on suspended sentence. "You failed to profit by the leniency which the court had extended on that occasion," Judge Enright reminded him. "Had insistence been made upon you serving the minimum sentence of a year in jail, you undoubtedly would not be here today facing a much more serious accusation.

"Here you are, all accused of serious offences, any one of which could cause you to be sent to the penitentiary for life and be given the lash," stated the judge. "You have evidently got the idea that money could be easily procured by surprising a person, placing a revolver at his head and ordering him to surrender all his possessions in the matter of value. “That was a dreamland, a make-believe world, you were living in and one which has existed from time immemorial. Some of its denizens have stood on the scaffold and forfeited their life for inhabiting that realm.

"You must have thought there was something heroic in the act of swaggering into a jewellery store or garage office and ordering the lone clerk there to surrender whatever you bid him. Three of you have been know and you admit the truth of it, to have entered establishments where a lone grocer was, or a garage office with a lone clerk, and ordered them to give up whatever money was available.”

COWARDLY ACTION. “In my opinion there is something cowardly in that. Nevertheless you must have believed that there was something of the bravado element in what you did. What is there heroic in hailing a taxi-driver, three of you. and ordering him to proceed to St. Antoine street and Lansdowne avenue where in front of a vacant lot you ordered the driver to give you a few dollars he possessed, and then trussed him and left him abandoned in his car In a dark lane off Guy street. While this was being done, Lillian Davis held a revolver pointed at the taxi-driver.

"You realized but a small sum yet for it you jeopardized your liberty for the remainder of your natural life. You took the same hazard as for robbing a bank, therefore you see how simple-minded you have been.

"When the Davis woman robbed the Chinese at his restaurant at 2502 Notre Dame street west on the night of November 16, the Chinese frightened her. It was the first time that she saw a frightened Chinese and when he uttered a squawk or squeak peculiar to frightened Chinese, it might have been sufficient to terrify her, yet she shot at him, Fortunately the bullet was r deflected and thus saved the woman from a charge of what would likely have been murder.

“Two young brothers had set out with the same ambitious plan to make money easily last spring and five days before Christmas they were hanged, one in the common jail here.

"Your youth entitles you to leniency but your crime is not to be condoned. Daily you stole motor cars. Even this morning I learned that another hold-up occurred last night. The bandit is living in the same dream-world in which you lived before your arrest, and like you he will be brought to Justice in time.”

FUTILE RACKET "I am told by old and hardened criminals, who have spent most of their lives in the penitentiary, that the racket that you had followed for such a short while is a futile one. They admit, and their statement is based on experience, that you can't 'beat the law."

The girl stated that she was born in Montreal and had always lived ha here, but that she only had a sister in this city now.

Benson's arrest followed a decision by Captain Ennis to go to headquarters by way of Notre Dame street. The captain and Detective Francoeur were going to the office with Lillian Davis and two of the men prisoners. They had been found in a Dorchester street house two hours before. Passing the court house the captain recognized Benson on the sidewalk. Changing places with Detectives Prysky and Therrien, who were in another car, the captain ordered them to drive the prisoners to Headquarters. Taking Francoeur with him, Captain Ennir arrested Benson, and took from his pocket a loaded revolver. His two companions were held prisoners by Francoeur,

STOPPED HOLDUP The arrest of Benson and his gang frustrated a holdup at a restaurant near the Court House. It had been planned as the fourth one for that day.

Robert Benson, condemned bandit, who told Judge Enright that he would like to marry Lillian Davis, his girl companion in banditry before being sentenced, and was not answered, may have his wish gratified during his incarceration.

It was learned this morning that marriage is within the rights of the two persons provided a clergyman will come forward who can vouch for a special reason for the marriage ceremony.

Neither Lillian Davis nor Robert Benson will be removed to the St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary or Kingston Penitentiary for the next 30 days, a rule in force regarding the removal of prisoners from the common jail to a penitentiary.

Judge Enright having no jurisdiction in the matter, Benson's request went unheeded this morning. With a full month to go before donning the garb of a penitentiary convict, the warden of the woman's jail and the governor of Montreal Jail have it within their power to accede to the request and have the marriage take place at the Montreal Jail.

Lillian Davis who is charged with attempting to murder Charlie Mack, laundryman, 2402 Notre Dame street west, will appear in court tomorrow morning. It was stated this morning that the charge will be reduced to wounding. The Chinese was slightly wounded in the right arm when he was shot during an attempted hold-up.

"I never attempted to kill him," the accused girl told Judge Enright in court,

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depresso-espresso-theatre-kid · 2 months

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okay can we talk about 'achilles come down' by gang of youths

it sounds like it's from patroclus' perspective. firstly the music itself is godlike. it is so beautiful that it makes me want to cry in itself. and then the lyrics come along and punch me in the throat, then kiss me while i'm wheezing

#i just want to cry every time i hear it #someone save me #it's so deep too???? like gurl #achilles come down #achilles #achilles and patroclus #patroclus #patrochilles #song of achilles #greek mythology #greek gods #music #songs #gang of youths

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somebluemelodies · 5 months

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you're scaring us and all of us, some of us love you achilles, it's not much but there's proof

The boat is moving before he can fully process it.

He’s moving before he can fully process it.

(They can’t leave without him.)

His legs move on their own desperate accord, and he’s only vaguely aware of two pairs of hands, one pair gripping each arm and stopping him in his tracks.

“Roier!”

“Roier, stop it!”

He struggles. Fights for his life.

(His life isn’t on the boat.)

(They can’t leave without him.)

Voices plea, but he can barely hear them over the sound of someone else yelling.

(“No! No, no, no! Cellbo! Cellbo!”)

He’s yanked back, away from the railing.

(“Cellbit! Cellbit!”)

It’s him yelling, he realizes, as his legs give out. The hands can’t catch him and he falls to the deck, communicator clattering out of reach.

Everything is blurry. So blurry. Fuzzy. He thinks he's crying. Thinks he can feel hot tears streaming down his cheeks.

But it's hard to think. Hard to hear. Hard to see. His voice goes hoarse. It cracks, breaks. His hands curl into fists in his lap as he hunches over himself.

"Mi esposo..!"

Someone crouches beside him. Maybe two people. He isn't sure. There's a hand on his back, one on his shoulder. They're saying something, but it sounds like it's underwater.

(He feels like he's underwater. Like he's drowning.)

(They're leaving without him.)

"Mi amor..."

today, of all days, see how the most dangerous thing is to love

#...sorry #'as the world caves in' this and 'a thousand years' that #all good choices btw i am suffering #but i raise you 'achilles come down' by gang of youths instead #bc fuck you *achilles and patroclus's your spiderbit*#thanks roier english updates on bird app for mentioning the song i hate you #slash lh #qsmp roier #spiderbit #qsmp purgatory #qsmp #blue writes qsmp

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secondbeatsongs · 1 year

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"Achilles, Come Down" with every second beat removed

#achilles come down #gang of youths #second beat song #music #every other beat #every second beat #song

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nofeelingisfinall · 10 months

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no feeling is final.

[all things end, hozier || persian adage || fleabag, phoebe waller-bridge || rainer maria rilke || the deepest sighs, the frankest of shadows, gang of youths || the heart is a muscle, gang of youths || andrea gibson]

#hozier #web weaving #life #phoebe waller bridge #fleabag #gang of youths #andrea gibson #rainer maria rilke #no feeling is final

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