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Dead Officer's Wife Had Prepared Cake-Birthday Party of Death - Receive Aid From Police Fund, The six shots from a gun in hands of an armed hoodlum th(...)
Dead Officer's Wife Had Prepared Cake-Birthday Party of Death - Receive Aid From Police Fund, The six shots from a gun in hands of an armed hoodlum th(...)

Dead Officer's Wife Had Prepared Cake-Birthday Party of Death - Receive Aid From Police Fund, The six shots from a gun in hands of an armed hoodlum th(...)

Date9/7/1933
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Original Toronto Star caption: Dead Officer's Wife Had Prepared Cake-Birthday Party of Death - Receive Aid From Police Fund; The six shots from a gun in hands of an armed hoodlum that brought death to P.C. Roy A McQuillin; Toronto police officer; rendered one woman a widow and two lov
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    GeographyCity, town, townshipToronto
    GeographyProvince stateOntario
    GeographyCountryCanada
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    Photographs
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
      Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
      Object NumberTSPA_0121667F
      Murder scene: Police officers stand in front of the Morecambe Gate townhouse in Scarborough where a teenager was shot to death at a crowded house party
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      Spremo, Boris
      7/18/1990
      In Memoriam: Barbara Irwin, whose husband was shot to death in 1972, lays a rose yesterday at Queen's Park to commemorate slain Metro police officers
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      Spremo, Boris
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      Toronto Star (Firm)
      1/30/1946
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      Slaughter, Mike
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      Armed Metro policemen peer round the corner of a Wellesley Street apartment building after armed man fired several shots
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      Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
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      Stuparyk, Michael
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      Faught, Ken
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      On the 108th birthday, Simon Baverstock gets help in cutting his cake from two of his six great-grandchildren, Jo-Ann Dennis, 11, (left) and Jackie De(...)
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      Dinsmore, Ted
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      Bull, Ron
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      Irish, Paul
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