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Tiver, the Project consist:
generating units. each. with
horsepower.

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spring the project will

FOREST GROVE NEWS
a

WI member
presented with
_life membership

Highlight of a meeting of the
ge aprest Grove Women’s Institute
lat Wednesday was the presen-
tation of a life membership pin
and certificate to Mrs. Mabel
Huter, who has been an active
member of the WI for 20 years.
@ Presentation was made by In-
stitute president Mrs. Mary
Nimmo before the 14 members
and itors present.
pairing the hall

tric power project in
s of four hydro-electric

hen completed next
supply energy to a

THE WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE

in point is the

on the Kabul

a capacity of
and Mr. M. F. Rodman,
east end of the Warsal

timeau and girls of Williams
Lake spent May 31. visiting
friends in the ‘Grove.

MR. AND MRS. Jim Butler
and son Herbie left last Friday
for Vancouver where they will
spend a week.

MR. AND MRS. Frank Topor-
chak and daughter Anne were
weekend visitors to Vernon.

WE are sorry to hear that
Carl Elsener is on the sick list.

Nursing sister
injured in crash

Miss | Mary Lou Fraser,

* iat the meeting.
vurgeois won the
kon

m@g of the season
Grove and District
in the school on
large attendance.

Highlight of the evening was
interesting and educational
ik by A. MacMillan, principal
the 100 Mile House School
mn “preparing your child for
“high school and university.”

| Gifts of appreciation were pre-

fnted to the teaching staff by
-TA president A. Rutley. For
the first time Miss Joyce Hart’s
‘ass won the room pennant and
rize. e

} MRS. E. SELLARS motored
0 Williams Lake May 30. She
as accompanied by Mrs. C.
‘unter.

JMR. AND MRS. Doug Mar-

daughter of Dr. and Mrs. R. H.
Fraser, of Williams Lake, and
a nursing sister in the Royal
Canadian Navy, will be in the
hospital for three months as a
result of a car accident which
occurred on Vancouver Island
last Friday night.

Miss Fraser suffered a double
fracture in the left leg and a
broken right wrist, plus numer-
ous cuts and bruises.

Responsible for the accident
was an impaired driver who was
being chased at high speeds by

the RCMP. His car crashed
into the Fraser vehicle, com-
pletely demolishing it. The

accident occurred about 15 min-
utes away from the Navy hospi-
tal at Naden where the girl is
now being cared for.

There is no way in which
some people can gain from gov-
ernment-giving without others
suffering from government-
taking.

Our other ban

keeping, Travell

MORE THAN 800 BI

Williams Lake B:

100 Mile House Branch —

and just like Ais Junior Depositor’s
Account your Savings Account
“will grow with regular deposits

ing Accounts, .
Chequing Acc! ers’ Cheques, Letters of Credit,

Safety Deposit Boxes;
Remittances, Collections,

THE CANADIAN
BANK OF COMMERCE

RANCHES THROUGHOUT CANADA

ranch — Felix Nicholson, Manager

k services include: Personal
Current Accounts, Safe-

Money Orders, Foreign
Banking By Mail.

D. A. M. Mars, Manager

teéiinical personel etployed on the
ject, there are also 10,400 native tribesmen.
The Colombo Plan profides all engineering
services, construction services and equipment.
Picture shows Mr. E. L. Miller of Montreal
bridge, Ont., at the
am powerhouse.

D

SEN 20
the best brews in the world come from CARLING’S
For free home delivery phone:

CASE CLOSED ON DRAMATIC NOTE

case following

sels.

Section 189 of the
Code, which reads:

be permanently

and
for two years.”

nuge pro-

After

laddressed the jury. He

Tresierra was charged under

Criminal
“ Everyone
who unlawfully abandons or ex-
poses a child who is under the
age of 10 years, so that its life
is or is likely to be endangered
or its health is or is likely to
injured,
guilty of an indictable offence
is liable to imprisonment

Charge arose as a result of
the fatal fire at Glendale last

November when Tresierra’s sons,
Richard, 3, and Ronald, 2, died.
the conclusion of the
case for the defence, conducted
|by D. F. McNeil, His Lordship

the
by

is

ex-

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7 Zeoment is not published or displayed by the Liquor
Be at oad or ‘by the Government of British Columbia.

plained that the usual course of
procedure now would be for de-
fence counsel to present the
case for the accused, following
which F. J. Perry would speak
for the Crown. He himself
would then sum up the case and
instruct the jury on their “duties
and functions.

RATHER UNUSUAL

“This is rather unusual,” Mr.
Justice Brown said. “The

Father acquitted on charge
of abandoning his children

Walter Lester Tresierra, of Williams Lake,

was found not guilty of a charge of abandoning a

child under the age of 10 years when he appeared

in Assize court at Quesnel last Friday.

The trial ended on a drama-
tie note at 5:15 when Mr. Jus-
tice T. Brown adjourned
sumnation
defence and prosecution coun-

judge could tell the jury that
there is no legal evidence. I
abstained because there was
some evidence of taking a
chance or of being thoughtless
or doing something that any
man, not wealthy enough to
have a 24-hour-a-day servant
would do,

“To abandon is something
final. This charge is meant to
deal with people really abandon-
ing their children, that is leay-
ing them entirely. It is not, to
my knowledge, used when a
child is left alone, emporarily.”

He asked the jury to adjourn
for 10 minutes and if at that
time the foreman could assure
him that each and every one of
them had reached a unanimous
decision, he would act on their
findings, otherwise the case
would be resumed Monday morn-
ing to carry out normal proced-
ure. The jury returned in five
minutes and the foreman told
his lordship that all were of the
opinion that the accused had no
intention of “utterly forsak-
ing” the children and returned
a verdict of “not guilty.”

EVENTS PRIOR TO FIRE

Evidence at the trial was sub-
stantially the same as that given
at the preliminary hearing.
Witnesses told the story of the
events prior to the time of the
fire. The children had been left
in the care of a neighbor in the

afternoon while their parents

were in town. They returned

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about 6:45 and collected the
two boys. Some time later

Tresierra left the second floor
flat to go looking for his wife.
He returned alone by taxi about
9:15 and saw his home on fire.

Frank Clark Moore, who
lived on the ground floor of the
apartment house, told the court
he saw smoke and flames about
9 pm. Calling to his eldest
son to get the other children
out, he ran up the outside stairs
to the Tresierra fiat. He could
not get the door open and: was
just starting to force it when
here was an explosion inside and
he was forced back.

Defence witness Mrs. Phyllis
Delaney of Lac La Hache told
the court she knew the accused
well and believed him to be a
good father and provider. “It

was against his nature to aban-
don his children,” she said.

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