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Dead Officer's Wife Had Prepared Cake-Birthday Party of Death - Receive Aid From Police Fund, The six shots from a gun in hands of an armed hoodlum th(...)
Dead Officer's Wife Had Prepared Cake-Birthday Party of Death - Receive Aid From Police Fund, The six shots from a gun in hands of an armed hoodlum th(...)

Dead Officer's Wife Had Prepared Cake-Birthday Party of Death - Receive Aid From Police Fund, The six shots from a gun in hands of an armed hoodlum th(...)

Date9/7/1933
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Original Toronto Star caption: Dead Officer's Wife Had Prepared Cake-Birthday Party of Death - Receive Aid From Police Fund; The six shots from a gun in hands of an armed hoodlum that brought death to P.C. Roy A McQuillin; Toronto police officer; rendered one woman a widow and two lov
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0121667F
Country:Canada
City, town or township:Toronto
Province or state:Ontario
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