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The
1959 headlines
These
headlines reflect the mood in 1959. Less than twenty-four
hours after Lynne Harper's body was found, Ontario Attorney
General Kelso Roberts put up a $10,000 bounty for her killer,
"dead or alive." It was the highest reward in the province's
history.
The
province's top lawman said he expected the money would "help
solve this revolting and savage crime as soon as possible,"
and he made it clear he did not much care if the bounty was
paid out for a conviction or a corpse. "If the guilty person
was killed and it was proven he was the murderer the reward
would still be given," one paper reported.
For
more on the mood of the times, editorials and headlines ---
and a portrait of how different a country Canada was in 1959
- see Chapters 2 and 7 of "Until you
are Dead"
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