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Dr. Rowena Hume was slain in her once-stately home, Police found her battered body after call from Star reporter Edna Hampton
Dr. Rowena Hume was slain in her once-stately home, Police found her battered body after call from Star reporter Edna Hampton

Dr. Rowena Hume was slain in her once-stately home, Police found her battered body after call from Star reporter Edna Hampton

Date10/4/1966
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Original Toronto Star caption: Dr. Rowena Hume was slain in her once-stately home; Police found her battered body after call from Star reporter Edna Hampton.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0121495F
Country:Canada
City, town or township:Toronto
Province or state:Ontario
James Noble with slaying suspect Donald Cooke, Handyman was charged in slaying of 89-year-old Dr. Rowena Hume
James Noble with slaying suspect Donald Cooke, Handyman was charged in slaying of 89-year-old Dr. Rowena Hume
10/5/1966
Grieving parents: Peter and Lesley Parrott, whose 11-year-old daughter Alison was found slain yesterday, are seen to reporters before learning of her death
Grieving parents: Peter and Lesley Parrott, whose 11-year-old daughter Alison was found slain yesterday, are seen to reporters before learning of her death
7/28/1986
Grieving parents: Peter and Lesley Parrott, whose 11-year-old daughter Alison was found slain yesterday, are seen talking to reporters before learning of her death
Grieving parents: Peter and Lesley Parrott, whose 11-year-old daughter Alison was found slain yesterday, are seen talking to reporters before learning of her death
7/27/1986
Less than an hour after Mrs. William Casovan, 38, was found slain in her Grange Ave. home Friday, detectives entered a rooming house on Wolseley St. a(...)
Less than an hour after Mrs. William Casovan, 38, was found slain in her Grange Ave. home Friday, detectives entered a rooming house on Wolseley St. a(...)
10/11/1944
Baby slain. The body of 9-month-old John Massie was found on the banks of the Credit River after the baby was thrown from the Queen Elizabeth Way brid(...)
Baby slain. The body of 9-month-old John Massie was found on the banks of the Credit River after the baby was thrown from the Queen Elizabeth Way brid(...)
8/25/1980
Baby slain. The body of 9-month-old John Massie was found on the banks of the Credit River after the baby was thrown from the Queen Elizabeth Way brid(...)
Baby slain. The body of 9-month-old John Massie was found on the banks of the Credit River after the baby was thrown from the Queen Elizabeth Way brid(...)
8/25/1980
A search for a killer. An intensive manhunt is under way in Mississauga for the killer of a 71-year-old recluse whose battered body was found in a one(...)
A search for a killer. An intensive manhunt is under way in Mississauga for the killer of a 71-year-old recluse whose battered body was found in a one(...)
5/11/1976
Family mourns: Marcel Babineau, 14, and his parents Jeanne and Marcel leave the church yesterday after a funeral Mass for the slain children, whose bodies were found Sunday in a schoolyard
Family mourns: Marcel Babineau, 14, and his parents Jeanne and Marcel leave the church yesterday after a funeral Mass for the slain children, whose bodies were found Sunday in a schoolyard
11/8/1984
Body found: Patricia Rodriquez leaves Lambton Park with her face covered after the body of a 20-month-old baby girl was found yesterday buried in a shallow grave
Body found: Patricia Rodriquez leaves Lambton Park with her face covered after the body of a 20-month-old baby girl was found yesterday buried in a shallow grave
1/30/1984
Bodies of two slain girls were found today in a rubble-strewn field off Wilson Ave
Bodies of two slain girls were found today in a rubble-strewn field off Wilson Ave
4/27/1973
Slain girl's body and soil removed in makeshift box by police
Slain girl's body and soil removed in makeshift box by police
5/26/1980
Final Farewell: Dr. Carolyn Warrick's father leans a hand on her coffin yesterday, as her fiance places a rose in her memory. The slain woman was buri(...)
Final Farewell: Dr. Carolyn Warrick's father leans a hand on her coffin yesterday, as her fiance places a rose in her memory. The slain woman was buri(...)
2/4/1991