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Tom Hillier is blind, scared and bewildered after being grabbed by the throat and thrown to the side-walk after asking for help in finding a streetcar(...)
Tom Hillier is blind, scared and bewildered after being grabbed by the throat and thrown to the side-walk after asking for help in finding a streetcar(...)

Tom Hillier is blind, scared and bewildered after being grabbed by the throat and thrown to the side-walk after asking for help in finding a streetcar(...)

Date7/3/1986
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Original Toronto Star caption: Tom Hillier is blind; scared and bewildered after being grabbed by the throat and thrown to the side-walk after asking for help in finding a streetcar. Hillier; 56; who has only 8 per cent vision; said he asked for assistance Wednesday afternoon while standing at the corner of Parliament and Gerrard Sts. I was just standing there and I asked the person beside me - I thought it was a woman - how far away the streetcar was; the Regent Park man said. The next thing I knew a man
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0020808F
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