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Taxi driver staggers after gunman who shot him

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Taxi driver staggers after gunman who shot him

Date5/1/1939

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Original Toronto Star caption: Taxi driver staggers after gunman who shot him. The dotted line shows how Lawrence Owen; taxi driver; staggered around the corner of Church and Granby Sts. after a young man whom he drove from the west end had drawn a gun and shot him. Clutching his stomach; Owen grabbed at his assailant; missing him. Trying to hobble after the gunman he clutched a barber pole; and had started to slither to the ground when Mrs. Gladys Ciretti caught him.

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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0113088F

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