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to susta

Marooned sailors, bush pilots, and sur-
viving victims of plane crashes have all
forced themselves to eat human flesh In
order to survive. North American Indians
and some African tribes ate portions of
their fallen enemies as an act of respect
in the bellef that they would acquire some
of the admirable qualities of their former

foes.

Those cases where cannibalism is
practised for the sheer perverted plea-
sure of the act are much rarer. In the 20th
century the case most often referred to as
an example of pure cannibalism is the
bizarre saga of Albert Fish.

Help wanted

“Young man, 18 years old, wishes posi-
tion in the country for the summer.’ Thi
ad appeared in the Situations Wanted
column of a New York City newspaper on
Monday, May 21, 1928. Edward Budd
was to regret placing the ad for the rest of
ht

early on Sunday.

Sure enough, Mr. Howard arrived the
following Sunday and broke bread with
the Budds. He said grace and proved to be
a charming conversationalist. At the con-
clusion of the meal he informed his
hosts that he had a si

try.
Mrs. Budd was at first a) but
with exuberant coaxing di iter,
she finally consented. Hand in hand little
Grace and one of the most reprehensible
monsters who ever lived strolled out of
the apartment and, in Grace’s case,
into oblivion.

Choked Grace

By subway, Frank Howard led Grace to
Westchester County near Irvington.
There, ina ramshackle house called Wis-
teria Cottage, the old man choked the life

ttle girl. He then dissected

The case,

trated

York City Police Force was able to trace
the telegram sent to the Budd family.

MAX HAINES

ALBERT FISH had a ‘liking’ for children.

: dren,

k His wife always considered him strange,

but lived with him for twenty gers

before leaving him. His grown children

f later testified that their father often
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‘TASTE’
OR EVIL

This provided them with a sample of the
kidnapper’s handwriting, but nothing fur-
ther turned up.

Years went by, and the little girl's
disappearance was all but forgotten.
From time to time the Budd famil
received crank notes and letters, whic!
they routinely turned over to the police.

Six years after the kidnapping, one of
these letters, thought to be from a crank,
‘prow ave been written by the same

and which had written the old telegram
sent to the Budds. The contents of the
pasimed letter described Grace Budd's
fate in detail. i

Police were able to trace the writing

pel type used by an organization

jown as The Private Chauffeurs Benevy-

tor for this orga-

Ing some of the sta-

his rooming house for his per-

. He told police that he had left

some in his room at 260 East 52nd St.
when he had moved out. ‘

gave the police a description of the occu-

ant of Room 11. There was no question
bout it— the occupant was Frank
Howard, who had abducted Grace Budd
almost six years previously. :

Cops nabbed him

The landlady informed police that
Number 11 was often vacant for most of
the month, but her tenant, known to her
as Albert Fish, always returned to pick
op a cheque sent to him by a son in North

arolina. This time when Fish returned
to his. room, police were waiting for

thought he was ist, an m time
time would disappear without explana-

ton.

Police uncovered the skull and some
bones of Grace Budd which had lain
where they have wn so many
years before. In the same weeds they
found a rusty knife and cleaver.
. Fish was examined extensively by both
psychiatrists and police. It was disco-
vered that he had visited various com-
munities in the north eastern U.S. at the
exact time when young children had

nm murdered. Fish denied any knowl-
edge of these crimes, but admitted to
leading a life of moles children while
he wandered from one job to another,
usually as a house painter.

Weird case

In a .case,.as weird.as any ever
: rded,. there wane still:more to come.
While x-ra

- body. Soi
to repair canvas. All had been inserted by
Fish to cause pain, Doctors stated that
some of the needles had been in his body
-for as long as seven years.
When Fish related his life story to
doctors he revealed that over the years he
had been in several mental institutions
for short of time. On each occa-

FS

. of Grace Budd on March 11, 1935 in White
Plains, N.Y. Despite the efforis put
forward by his defense counsel, plea ne
that his client was insane, the jury de -
berated only a few hours before finding
Fish guilty of murder.

Just before being transferred to Sin,
Sing, Fish confessed to four additional
murders of small chil: 5

As the end drew near Fish told
guards that he was delighted
chance of experiencing the ultima
of being put to death. Albert Fish was
electrocuted on Jan. 16, 1936.

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Tv cesta LAKES ¢.c.

I'M OFTEN glad that I don’t
have four or five daughters
waiting in the wings to be
married, If I did I'd soon be
in the poorhouse, as we used
to call it. Or on welfare, as
we call it now. Or rumbling
my gums and my pension in
one of those Sunset Havens,
or another atrociously-
named place for old people
who are broke.

result of three middle-class
* weddings I have attended in.
the past two years, As an in-
nocent bystander, I am
aghast at the cost — finan-
cial, emotional, and stressful
— of the modern straight, or

6 EDGE
ERE YOUR FIRST sHoT | iis Stacey
DANO THE PIN, AND

It’s not too many decades
since you could send your
-| daughter off in fine style for

> a couple’ of hundred bucks.
Her mother. made her dress.
IT CLOSER The church and the preacher
were free. You rented’ the
community - hall, and the
ladies’ Auxiliary catered the
food. You could hire and or-

New

NO

MILEAGE |

This opionion is a direct -

chestra for $25, And you still
had $50 left to give the bride,
your daughter, a .jittle nest

ca.

My. own. wedding ‘cost
almost nothing. We were
married in the chapel at Hart
House, U. of T, No ‘charge
for the facilities; Five bucks
for the preacher (larceny was
creeping In ) . The organist
was a. school-mate. who
played in a burlesque house,
so no fee, Borrowed ‘a. car
from a friend for the honey-

moon, $20. My wife bought,

a suit and her own wedding

‘ring. I had supplied. a dia-

mond, courtesy of a friend
who had been jilted, at half
price. No ushers, no recep-
tion, no drinks. The best man
and the maid of honour got a

S.

And away we went, just as
married, with the same

‘words (and still married ) ,

as the modern bride whose
old man has forked out a
couple. of thousand
minimum, whose mother has

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ye Bill Smiley ¥e

been brought to the verge of
a breakdown over invita-

‘tions, guests, hair-dressing,’

and a hundred other details,
who is herself ever-increasing
demands of her position as
the big day approaches.

With my own daughter, I
was crafty, I asked her
whether she'd like a church
wedding and the usual recep-
tion, or a cheque for one
thousand. A chip off the old
block, she opted for the
cheque, knowing’ she’d get
the other, too, if she wanted
it, y

I ‘squeaked in just under
$1500, She invested the
cheque in a car, which she to-
talled_in a roll-over on their
honeymoon, No pun intend-
ed,

At‘a moderate accounting,’
today's dad is going for at
least twice that before he
sinks into his chair. on Sun-
day night with a, ‘Thank
God, ‘sallover."’

On second thought, $3,000
is modest, the way today’s
middle-cl: wedding has
built up its hidden costs. It’s
$25 for the preacher, unless
he’s ‘lost his dog-collar or
been disbarred, Ditto for the
organist. Gowns for the
bridesmaids, add $300. A
donation to the thurch for
the ‘oil heating. Fifty bucks
for invitations. Five hundred
minimum for new duds for
him’ and the old lady. A
“little”? going-away cheque
for the bride, another five
hundred,

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CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, June 28, 1979 a.

He's up to nearly fifteen
hundred before the preacher
has even said, ‘Dearly be-
loved, we are gathered here
today...”

If he's a real big-time
spender, he picks up the tab
for the motels at which
guests who have come from
afar at great trouble and ex-
pense, lay their. well-coiffed
heads,

Then there's the open bar
at the reception, the dinner
with wine, the orchestra or
disc jockey for dancing, the
open bar again, the towing
charges for guests who

mistook the ditch for the.

road on the way home, Call
it fifteen hundred. :

However, I guess it’s all
worth it, A daughter,

especially an only daughter,

is a gift from heaven. x

Kevin MacMillan, 20,
grandson of Sir Ernest Mac-
Millan, one of Canada’s
great men of music, married
Anne Whicher, 18, whom I
have known since she came

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