I * HIRED KILLERS t . I " éOf St. James 'I ' .pi'aise God's goodness and voice \ , ' 3 church schoolf by Chas. P. Mac~ i ' his snapbrimmed liai and said. ' ,' fornia fr 0 in Vancouver. yams much-married mother, in- ‘ 2 «Those men were trying to black- _ » they didn't get. ‘ {festival of nine lessons and car- I vice of scriptures I Thy representative men and wo- ' anon. and boys and girls. of the ' tongregation. Between the les- v» ‘oons are sung carols and hymns. . Mrs. J. A. La\vson. vice-pre- ‘. By {PATRICK McNL'I/I‘Y VENTURA, Calif. APT m The young lawyer nervously fingered V "I find it fantastic to believe :that mother killed my wife." . Then the taut, worried face of Frank Duncan, 30. clouded more. .uaut i‘m finding lots of things ‘.bout this case hard to believe.” The strangled. nightgown—clad body of Duncan's pregnant wife . Canadian who came to Cali: was found last Sunday in a hand- scooncd l:()a(lSld9-gi'a\'0 near This 'coastal City 60 miles northwest of: 1,05 Angeles. ‘ ‘ The district attorney said Dun. :tenseiy jealous or her daughter— in.iaw, hired two laborers to kill 0123 Duncan. 30. - A grand juiy Friday returned murder indictments against Mrs. 'Elizabeth Duiica. 54. Augustine Baldonado, 25, and Luis Moya. on ' “H's a lie." said Mrs. Duncan. ‘ mail me." A Baldonado and Moya said they (were hired to kill the attractive jurgical nurse for $6.000, which ;, Baldonado led investigators to . BEATEN, CHOKED. v the body of the brunette bride {Ancient Festival Held At Kirk i The celebration of Christmas geame to a conclusion last night the Kirk of St. James with tithe observance of the ancient ‘ols. The church offers this ser- ’ and songs, named on ancient precedent. as gift to the Lord of Bethlehem. ' The nine lessons tell the story redemption as portrayed in ‘ he Bible and are read in order fend prayers are offered to joy and adoration at the coming of This Blessed Son. I The lessons in turn were read by Bill Prowse of the Kirk Scout -troop: by Margaret MacDonald 30f the minister’s youth class; by "J. B. Larkin, teacher in the Renzie. president. the chancel- := I : by Mrs. J. Harold,Shaw. 3t ident, the Kirk Aua'tiliary; ,sRlentdthe W.M.S. Auxiliary: by G; 8. Storey, president, the men of the Kirk: by Mrs. Benjamin 1110ng of the board of trustees; "(and by R.R. Hurst of the Kirk . ESeesion. ‘nurse answered Moya's knock . Canadian The Minister. Rev. T. H. B. Somers, presided at the service ll'nd ofifered the prayers. '_ The church organist, Miss E. ' Lillian MacKenzie. directed the =COMING EVENTS Bon- . New Year‘s Eve dance, . Shaw. W. 1. Hall ,Hockey North River Rink, to- night Hampshire Bulldogs vs. Winsloe Tigers game time 8.30 p. m. Skate after. _ Dance in Corran Ban Hall, f Monday, December 29. Sponsor- ed by C. W L. Weatherbie‘s 0r— chestra. Organizations using this column ‘ Io,_promote their meetings a entertainments are requested lilace their announcements ll the name of the Organization or Group who are sponsoring the event. - Regular Dance, Bonsliaw lnn Hall, every Tuesday night. II“ o v e r d o s e of the anaesthetic :11. o ’ wad—m Chalettetown. Mon. Ber. 29. 1.953 s, Briéeys Death Fantastic, .Cal'lmnia Lawyer Finds u ho had dis/a ‘ ‘ apartment Novgpfiled hom her b Baldonado said he and Mova cat and strangled her. But he said they didn't take what he said Iias Mrs. Duncan's advice that Iie VIISP acid on her daughter-in- aw 5 face “so they won’t be able to identify her by dental work " District attorney Roy Gustaf- son of Ventra County said Baldo- nado and Moya gave this contes sion to the grand jury: ‘On Nov. 17. they drove to the Victims apartment. The young late toldher that her husband was itiiik in the car. She followed £21111 t‘fdthe parke'xi auto where to a 0 was crou 7 . ‘ back seat ching in the Moya sluoged her with . D ’ a calibre pistol and bu into the car. “led her They drove to a lonel . . y moun— tain road and took turn-s strang- ling her. They did not shoot be- cause the pistol, broken in the beating, could not be fired. HAND-BUG GRAVE They had forgotten to bring a shovel._ Baldonado dug a grave with his hands while Moya con- tinued throttling the nurse. I think she was dead when we dumped her in the grave," Bal- donado told detectives. The niother-in—law appeared in court With' an ex~convict Ralph Winterstein. last Aug. 7 and poo chancel choir in the special music which included the carols, “Today Is Born Immanuel" by Praetoriuus; "I Wonder as I Wander” sung by Miss Muriel Hurst; “To Bethlehem“ by Wil- liams: “Cherubim Song" by Bortniansky: “The Little Road to Bethlehem” sung by Mrs. Dav1d Cox; and “Im the Bleak Mi‘dwmter” by Gustav Holst. The beautiful service concliid» ed with the recessional hymn "Holy Night! Peaceful Night!" and the solemn benediction. ‘ Guernsey Ass’n. , Directors Named ing as the young couple. oblaincd a fraudulent annulment of her son 5 marriage. Charles Thompson. 1 Barbara police lieutenant, inter- Viewed a neighbor of Mrs. Dun— can durtng an investigation of the bogus annulment. The neighbor. Mrs. Emma Shortt. 84. told Thompson she had overheard the murder plot. Gustafson blamed Mrs. Duw‘ can's intense jealousy of her daughter-in-laiv for the slaying. MAMA’S BOY He described the dark-haired lawyer as a mama's boy domin~ ated by a doting and meddlesome mother who refused to surrender him to another woman. Duncan left his Manitoba-born bride two weeks after their June 21 wedding. “Mother had been calling and bothering me." Duncan said. “So‘ I decided to move back with mother and try to straighten things out. "But we intended to go back together after the baby. I loved my wife. I loved her a great Santa t deal." The nurse had written her par— r, cuts in Canada that her mother-I in-law seemed to have an "un-‘ canny hold" on Duncan. She alsol wrote that Mrs. Duncan had‘ threatened her. The lawyer spent a nervous day Friday waiting to testify be- fore the grand jury. “Mother and Olga 'dn’t. get along well. it's true." e told a reporter. “But kill my wife? “I can never recall mother doing a n y t h i n g cruel. She couldn’t even kill an animal.“ it the shoe tits . .. B. B. Hodgins. secretary of thr ‘ Guernsey Breeders, Association. Guelph, Ontario I has just reported the reshlt of the election for national direc- tors. Four of the ten directors will be attending the associat- ion‘s annual meeting in Toronto on January 28th for the first time. . New directors are - Pete; A. Krisboflf. Cloverdale. B. C- David K. Mills, Royal Park. AI— berta; Norbert Dunlavey. West Sliet't'ord. Quebec. and Floyd K. Smith, Bridgetown, N.S. Walter G. Coulter, Norton, N. l 8., who represents New Bruns- wick and Prince Edward Island, was reelected for a second term and J. L. Chisholm. Milton, On- tario, who is one of five direc- tors representing Ontario, was elected for his third two-year term. He is su-rrentily first vices president of DILE' Association. Guinea Pigs Of Condemned, Is Suggestion WASHINGTON demned prisoners, before being put to death, should be allowed to volunteer for painless medocal enperiments under anaesthesia, a doctor said Saturday. . Dr. Jack Kevorkian of Pontiac. 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