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Death plunge

Death plunge

Date3/30/1982
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Original Toronto Star caption: Death plunge: After police and Houston's parents pleaded with him for three hours from a next-door apartment telephone; Houston vaulted over the balcony railing. Houston met the apartment's tenant; Gail Marriott; last Friday at the psychiatric ward.
Country:Canada
City, town or township:Toronto
Province or state:Ontario
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0121661F
Cordoned off: Police seal site of yesterday's fatal plunge to question witnesses - including one who says man was definitely thrown out of window
Cordoned off: Police seal site of yesterday's fatal plunge to question witnesses - including one who says man was definitely thrown out of window
10/3/1991
Clues sought: Police want Melvin Stanton, left, for questioning in connection with Tema Conter's death
Clues sought: Police want Melvin Stanton, left, for questioning in connection with Tema Conter's death
1/29/1988
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(...)
9/7/1933
Loses appeal: Salesman Robert Stewart (left), 32, is in Kingston Penitentiary for the hit-run death of Judy Jordan
Loses appeal: Salesman Robert Stewart (left), 32, is in Kingston Penitentiary for the hit-run death of Judy Jordan
2/6/1979
Death scene
Death scene
12/10/1979
Death car: With the body of a slain man still in the trunk, an Oldsmobile is loaded on to a flatbed trailer to be taken to the Centre of Forensic Sciences today
Death car: With the body of a slain man still in the trunk, an Oldsmobile is loaded on to a flatbed trailer to be taken to the Centre of Forensic Sciences today
4/18/1989
Policemen search for clues in the field where Constable David Goldswrothy was found beaten and slot to death early this morning. Goldsworthy was patro(...)
Policemen search for clues in the field where Constable David Goldswrothy was found beaten and slot to death early this morning. Goldsworthy was patro(...)
10/6/1969
Widow attends trial: Lemona Johnson (right) with unidentified friend, enters courthouse today where two police are on trial for manslaughter in shooting death of her husband, Albert
Widow attends trial: Lemona Johnson (right) with unidentified friend, enters courthouse today where two police are on trial for manslaughter in shooting death of her husband, Albert
10/16/1980
Death scene
Death scene
8/26/1979
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
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
10/13/1992
Charged in killing: Dennis John Craggs, a 23-year-old married man, seen here in the police identification room, was charged with second-degree murder yesterday in the death of Jane Harrison, 18
Charged in killing: Dennis John Craggs, a 23-year-old married man, seen here in the police identification room, was charged with second-degree murder yesterday in the death of Jane Harrison, 18
4/26/1981
Murder charge: Detectives bring one of three youths charged in the stabbing death of a fourth into 42 Division last night
Murder charge: Detectives bring one of three youths charged in the stabbing death of a fourth into 42 Division last night
4/23/1991