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I'm very bitter, said 20-year-old Paul Smithers as he got ready to surrender to jail officials yesterday
I'm very bitter, said 20-year-old Paul Smithers as he got ready to surrender to jail officials yesterday

I'm very bitter, said 20-year-old Paul Smithers as he got ready to surrender to jail officials yesterday

Date5/17/1977
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Original Toronto Star caption: I'm very bitter; said 20-year-old Paul Smithers as he got ready to surrender to jail officials yesterday. He is to serve six months for causing the death of a hockey opponent in a parking lot fight after a game in 1973 marred by racial taunts. I wasn't judged by one black person; he said.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0120113F
Freed on bail in the death of another young hockey player, Paul Smithers is in Mississauga Hospital suffering with what may be recurrence of typhoid fever
Freed on bail in the death of another young hockey player, Paul Smithers is in Mississauga Hospital suffering with what may be recurrence of typhoid fever
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Maurice Lauzon, Talked into surrender
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