MURDER CHARGE FOLLOWS AIR EXPLOSION
OTTAWA, September 24.—J. Albert Guay, a Quebec jeweller, aged 31, was charged today with murdering his wife by means of a homemade bomb, which exploded aboard a Canadian airliner on September 9, killing 23 persons. While Guay was being charged, the police maintained a guard over Mrs Marie Pitre, who, they said, had declared that she had unwittingly placed a bulky package containing the bomb aboard the airliner. The police said, that Mrs Pitre admitted taking the package to the airport, where it was placed aboard the aeroplane, but she did not know the contents of the package. The police said that a life insurance policy for 10,000 dollars was taken out on Mrs Guay’s life shortly before she left Quebec in the aeroplane. They believed a “love pact might be involved in the case. A police officer said: “We have definite proof that explosives were placed aboard the aeroplane to get rid of a woman.” .
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 September 1949, Page 5
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