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Authors: Dale Brawn

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8: Killers on the Run

Henry Séguin:
From Ontario to British Columbia

July 30, 1925	Henry Séguin born in Cornwall, Ontario.
March 16, 1935	Séguin’s first arrest; he was ten years old.
March 25, 1939	Séguin released from reformatory; returns home to his parents.
September 27, 1939	Convicted of theft; returned to reformatory.
January 28, 1942	Convicted of break and enter; sentenced as adult to seven months in jail.
December 16, 1942	Sentenced to six months in jail for theft.
July 12, 1943	Convicted escaping lawful custody and other offences; given two more years.
August 25, 1944	Escapes from jail and goes on crime spree.
September 29, 1944	Joins Canadian Armed Forces to avoid being recaptured.
November 1, 1944	Séguin recaptured and sentenced to two years more.
January 22, 1945	Séguin dishonourably discharged from the Canadian Armed Forces.
December 7, 1946	Released from Kingston Penitentiary.
May 29, 1947	Convicted of break and enter; sentenced to two years in penitentiary.
February 8, 1952	Released from Kingston Penitentiary.
April 12, 1952	Burns house trailer; steals some of its contents, including a .22 calibre rifle.
August 16, 1952	Séguin murders Leonard Hurd.
August 22, 1952	Warrant issued for arrest of Séguin.
August 28, 1952	Séguin hired by lumber company; near Williams Lake, British Columbia.
October 2, 1952	Séguin, calling himself Henry Godin, meets Fred and Jean Labie.
October 25, 1952	Séguin’s unusual looking car found in a bush near Quebec border.
November 3, 1952	Jean leaves Fred.
November 7, 1952	Police begin questioning people around Williams Lake about Séguin.
November 8, 1952	Séguin, a.k.a. Godin, leaves Williams Lake with Labie for Kamloops.
November 14, 1952	Séguin and the Labies move into a duplex together.
November 17, 1952	Last time the Labies seen alive.
December 13, 1952	Séguins packs up and leaves Kamloops.
December 15, 1952	Séguin arrives in Williams Lake; robs bank.
December 16, 1952	Séguin shot and captured.
December 22, 1952	Police in B. C. learn than man in custody is Henry Séguin, not Godin.
January 8, 1953	Séguin released from hospital; placed in police cell.
January 12, 1953	Séguin appears at preliminary hearing.
January 17, 1953	Pleads guilty to three charges related to robbery; sentenced to five years.
March 16, 1953	British Columbia Court of Appeal dismisses Séguin’s appeal.
April 26, 1953	Transferred from B.C. to Kingston Penitentiary to appear on murder charge.
August 19, 1953	Preliminary hearing; bound over for trial.
October 26, 1953	Murder trial begins in Cornwall.
October 28, 1953	Found guilty and sentenced to hang on January 19, 1954.
December 15, 1953	Ontario Court of Appeal rejects Séguins appeal.
January 6, 1954	Asks Supreme Court for permission to appeal; justice of that court says no.
January 16, 1954	Stay sought; denied; B.C. officer questions Séguin about the missing Labies.
January 18, 1954	Federal government rejects application for clemency.
January 19, 1954	Minutes before being taken to scaffold Séguins commits suicide.
September 18, 1955	Remains of Labies and their dog found in British Columbia by worker.
February 15, 1956	Inquest into deaths of the Labies held; Séguin held to be their killer.
April 9, 1956	Remains of Fred and Jean Labie buried in Kamloops.

Walter Pavlukoff:
From British Columbia to Ontario

1929	Pavlukoff’s father dies.
1933	Nineteen-year-old Pavlukoff commits first crime.
1938	Twin sisters die of tuberculosis after long illnesses.
July 11, 1938	Arrested in Chicago on five counts of robbery; deported to Canada.
August 2, 1938	commits armed assault in Vancouver; sent to prison.
1940	Paroled; almost immediately commits robbery; sent to jail for three years.
March 9, 1944	Arrested with holster, mask, ammunition; gun found within a few days.
1945	Pavlukoff sentenced by Vancouver court to three years on gun charge.
August 25, 1947	Vancouver bank manager shot during bank robbery.
August 25, 1947	Clothes worn by Pavlukoff during robbery found; hat found in a different location.
August 26, 1947	Police find tailor who made suit; Pavlukoff charged with murder; warrant issued.
August 27, 1947	Pavlukoff shows up unannounced at shack near rural C.P.R. right of way.
August 28, 1947	Reward of $5,000 for arrest of Pavlukoff offered by bankers association.
August 29, 1947	Largest manhunt in history of British Columbia underway.
August 31, 1947	Revolver found on beach; a hotel key found in a different location.
September 2, 1947	Search comes up empty; authorities locate room occupied before bank robbery.
January 1, 1952	Sick and hungry, Pavlukoff taken to hospital; known as Ralph McRae.
May 23, 1952	Magazine runs photo of Pavlukoff; Toronto police receive tip he is in the city.
June 1952	Anonymous tipster tells police he has seen Pavlukoff on a Toronto street.
January 8, 1953	Pavlukoff Canada’s second most wanted man; arrested on Toronto street.
January 9, 1953	Killer breaks down in tears when advised he was being charged with murder.
January 11, 1953	Arrives in Vancouver; allowed to speak with his mother and sister.
January 12, 1953	Makes first appearance in Vancouver courtroom; remanded one week.
January 24, 1953	Pavlukoff identified in police lineup by a witness to the robbery.
January 26, 1953	Preliminary hearing begins; defence lawyer agrees to holding him for trial.
April 1, 1953	Pavlukoff found guilty of murder; sentenced to hang June 23, 1953.
July 8, 1953	British Columbia Court of Appeal denies Pavlukoff’s appeal.
July 8, 1953	Pavlukoff stabs himself to death after being advised; appeal rejected.
July 14, 1953	Inquest into Pavlukoff’s suicide adjourned for one week.
July 28, 1953	Pavlukoff’s execution date.

9: Pictures on the Dash

Owen “Mickey” Feener

1926	Cathy Essers born in Belgium.
1934	Kay Chouinor born.
1937	Mickey Feener born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia.
1942	Dolly Woods born.
1945	Feener shot in the head; three months in hospital; given up by his parents.
1957	Twenty-year-old Feener marries a fifteen-year-old young woman.
1958	Cathy Essers immigrates; establishes a dress business in Nova Scotia.
March 26, 1959	Feener becomes father to a baby girl.
April 14, 1959	Dolly Woods disappears from Kirkland Lake rooming house.
October 1959	Feener receives careless driving ticket, which he does not pay.
October 1959	Feener’s wife charges him with not supporting her and their daughter.
June 1960	Skeleton of Woods discovered near Ontario-Quebec border; not identified.
July 1960	Essers moves to Toronto, where she meets Conrad Walther.
September 20, 1960	Thirty-four-year-old Essers disappears on way from Toronto to New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.
October 1, 1960	Essers reported missing by fiancé, Conrad Walther of Bradford.
October 1, 1960	Unidentified person attempted to cash a cheque drawn Esser’s account.
October 4, 1960	Feener appears at home of Kay Chouinor; she agrees to go out that evening.
October 4, 1960	Last time red-haired twenty-six-year-old Kay Chouinor seen alive.
October 5, 1960	Unidentified body (Essers) found in ditch near Fredericton.
October 5, 1960	Chouinor’s employers reports her missing.
October 5, 1960	Feener arrested in Kirkland Lake for failing to pay careless driving fine.
October 1960	Police reopen missing person investigation of Dolly Woods.
October 8, 1960	Investigators from Timmins interview Feener in his cell in Kirkland Lake.
October 8, 1960	RCMP in Fredericton charge Feener with offering an indignity to a body.
October 9, 1960	Badly beaten body of Kay Chouinor found near Timmins.
October 9, 1960	Feener charged with murdering Chouinor.
October 12, 1960	Feener remanded to October 26, 1960, for a preliminary hearing.
October 26, 1960	Feener remanded to trial in spring 1961.
December 1960	Feener granted a new preliminary hearing.
January 20, 1961	Feener remanded to trial at second preliminary hearing.
March 6, 1961	Feener’s trial in Cochrane, Ontario gets under way.
March 8, 1961	Jury convicts Feener of murder after deliberating fifteen minutes.
March 9, 1961	Two local newspapers found in contempt for coverage of trial.
May 15, 1961	Ontario Court of Appeal dismisses appeal from Feener’s conviction.
June 12, 1961	Feener confesses to murdering Dolly Woods.
June 13, 1961	Feener hanged at Haileybury Jail.
June 13, 1961	Police begin searching for the body of Dolly Woods.
June 14, 1961	Body of Dolly woods located on Quebec side of Ontario-Quebec border.

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