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where he denounced the criminal lifestyle and his own past life. He was photographed at the
Toronto police games in 1935 standing next to John "Duke" McGarry (a Toronto hotelkeeper and the official starter of the games), Dr MM Crawford (the chief coroner of Toronto), Frank Denton (York County Judge),
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and the gang members took to their own car to flee the scene. The local constable pursued after them but gave up the chase after the gang members fired over fifty rounds into his car. The father, who had been shot in the head with a sawed-off shotgun, succumbed to his injuries and died a week later.
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village with the intention of stealing a 1935 V8 Chevrolet Master Sedan. As they were pulling away the car, the owner of the garage and his son came out to confront them. After a bitter melee fight in the stolen car, both father and son were shot by the gang members. The stolen car was abandoned on
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a few months later on 23 May 1936. Constable Jack Lewis died in the altercation. The last broadcast of Ryan's programme on CFRB came directly before the news broadcast about his death in Sarnia. Edward McMullen tried to flee into the United States but he was gunned down at the Blaine crossing in
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At the same time that he was leading this life, he got together with gang members Edward McMullen and Harry
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Ryan denounced the shooting on his radio programme and he went to police headquarters in
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of Canada' and he was known for armed robbery, safecracking, and other major theft. He killed six people in his career. He was arrested in
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on 14 December 1923 and given life imprisonment, which he served in Canada. He served his sentence at
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Catholic upbringing and he took to the streets as a young man to engage in crime. He was called the '
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The Big Red Fox: The
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for the prison reform movement in Canada. A large-scale movement to change the
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existence and he successfully kept his robberies secret from the public eye.
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People shot dead by law enforcement officers in Canada
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