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KEY WITNESS IN MURDER TRIAL (Rec. 10.45) OTTAWA, March 15. The police in Quebec kept a constant watch to-day over Mrs Arthur Pitre (41), a key witness against Albert Quay, who yesterday was sentenced to death for the murder of his wife. . -i Mrs Quay was a passenger aboard an airliner which crashed on September 9 after a bomb had exploded in the plane’s baggage compartment. Mrs Quay and 22 others in the airliner died. Mrs Pitre will go on trial to-mor-row on a charge of attempted suicide. The police said she took an overdose of sleeping pills after she learned that she had unwittingly placed a package containing a bomb aboard the plane. They said they were determined that she should not try again to end her life".
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 129, 16 March 1950, Page 5
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