B6 CASTLEGAR NEWS, September 2, 1981

A suicide
pact gone
wrong led
fo lovers’
tragic end

MAX HAINES

Suicide pacts rarely are carried off with the elan

and class which such desperate schemes so richly

. They become decidely messy when the

party of the first part kills the party of the second
part and then decides to chicken out.

Whi Cox’s uncle wrote him from Cape

the many opportunities which

that South

adrenalin flow. i

‘There was one minor detail. Freddie had a wife,
but this encumbrance which so often negates
opportunities was settled’ amicably enough.

idie’s wife "t care. to go’ to South ica,
didn’t care if Freddie went, and quite frankly,
didn’t give a damn either way.

On June 7, 1922, Freddie landed in Cape Town,
moved in with his uncle, and buckled down to
search out gainful employment. Quick as a wink, he
obtained the position of junior audit clerk with an
accounting firm. Events appeared to be

ro} die in the new

Annie. Nothing coul:

his first cousin, and lived with her Mommy, Daddy,
and of course Freddie. die took one look at
18-year-old Annie, liked what he saw, and figured he
could fill in any pertinent gaps which may have
existed in her education. Lest we mislead, we are

no! jose arn
in a classroom, but rather are alluding to the
bedroom variety.

Madly in love

Annie was what they call a fast learner. She fell
hook, line, and body for virile Freddie, who liked
not more than to spend a quiet weekend with
his first cousin between the sheets.

Annie and Freddie were madly in love. Not your
everyday garden variety love, but something much
deeper than that. When they weren’t occupied
pursuing earthly objectives, they passed the e

yy writing letters to each other. La’ 600 letters
had been wri

were uncovered which
Three iy a

lived in the same house, one wonders if they

time for anything other than doing what came

so very naturally and writing letters. I mean,

‘Mr. and Mrs. Co:

was, Freddie si

that he had just inherited £9,000 and would like very
much to become a partner in the new business. He
would do the books, while the experienced man
would be the manager.

The two men came to terms and had a part-
nership a; ent drawn up. Freddie kept up this
sham until it came time to put up or shut up. In the
Tieantime he had sweet talked his business col-

men a
mol they cooled their heels waiting for our boy,
who didn’t show.

Within a minute blood-curdling screams

echoed throughout the second floor

Freddie had reached into his coat ‘pocket.

and extracted a long bladed knife.”

opening Mr. Wolfe's office. She and Freddie walked
inside. Within a minute blood-c ‘screams
echoed out the second floor of the staid old

turned on Annie and continual lunge

into his lover. She fought and scrambled for her life
but it was no use. Later it was revealed that she had
been stabbed 20 times.

All was still. Freddie, drenched in blood, but cool
as a cucumber, opened the office door. ‘What have
you done?” one of the onlookers exclaimed. ‘‘Yes, I
did it,” Cox answered, ‘‘and if I’d had time I'd have
finished off myself as well.’’ Then fastidious
Freddie suggested it would be a good idea if he
washed up.

On May 19, 1924, Freddie Cox stood trial for the
murder of his first cousin and sweetheart, Annie

Cox. It all came out. Freddie admitted that the one
Annie dank agree upon in advance wae ie
lo. er. Freddie hones
thor with his knife
would be sufficient to cause immedi:
this theory proved erroneous, he added 19 thrusts
for good measure.

Freddie failed to carry out his end of the suicide
act because of the men pounding on the office
loor. He now requested that he be put to death, just

as he and Annie had planned.

)

Throughout his trial Freddie never wavered from
bis contention that the whole affair was a suicide
pact.,He wasn’t insane and had not acted on the
spur of the moment. All he wanted was to join his
Annie.

At 6:30 a.m, on Ji

1, 1924, the government of
South Africa granted uest.

req

School District No. 9
(Castlegar)

SCHOOL
OPENING

A. Secondary Schools
Tuesday, September 8, 1981 is an

“In-Service Day” for secondary teachers only;

hence, students enrolled in grades 9 to 12 at Stanley Humphries Secondary and.

grades 7 to 8 at K' ird Junior S

y will NOT

on y-
However, students in grades 7 to 12 who are new to the District should register at

the appropriate secondary school on T
Rivers School attendance area should enro!

Grade 7 students in the Twin

Il in Twin Rivers. Report cards from the

last school attended should be presented at this time.

Wednesday, September 9, 1981 is a FULL DAY for all School District No. 9 studen-
ts. Buses will be operating on their regular schedules, both in the morning and af-
ternoon. Bus schedules will be published at a later date.

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It's the’ best show in town

© "JOHN CHARTERS’

Anyone who comes
Vistorla, and dees not
the Provincial Museum is not
only failing to recognize some
of the good things that
government can initiate, but
he is missing the best show —
free and otherwise — in
town,

It is a museum in the best
sense of the word.. It succ-
eeds in stimulating the imag-
ination to recreate the near
and distant past and bring:
them vividly into our. pres-

ent.

Outside the building is a
section of solidified 200-
milllion-year-old mud. Im-
printed in it are two sets of
three-toed footprints. One
set belongs to a small plant-
eating dinosaur. The heavier,
taloned footprints of a larger
meat-eating dinosaur follows
closely beliind. At the end of

Campgrounds
to close

next week

CALGARY — Gray jays
and squirrels will take over
national park campgrounds
this month as closed signs go
up, water pipes drain and
visitors leave.

Most in the

Provincial Museum

/ es &
Recollections

PN
e hos

a a
Bs.
ae

wet:

the mud block both sets of
prints end in a wild scrabble
— silent testimony to an an-
cient tragedy.

Inside, a huge statue of a
Haida whaling expedition
captures the drama and
excitement of the hunt by
that greatest tribe of whale
hunters, while tall totem and
lodge poles look down at
them and us.

British Columbian pre-his-
tory, early people, animal
habitats and early industry
are recreated so vividly that
it is hard to realize that one is
not standing by the actual
seashore or in the coast
forest, The only thing miss-

ing in the central B.C. barn-

yard with its haystack sheds,
farm wagon and muddy
straw, is the aromatic tang of
horse manure.

Elsewhere, a turn-of-the-
century kitchen glows in the

light of the black wood and ‘

coal stove. Lightly scented
puffs of cinnamon come from
the apple pie baking in the
oven and the sounds of the

Banff, Jasper, Yoho, Koot-
enay, Waterton and Glacier
national parks will close im-
mediately after Labor Day,
the last long. kend of the

can be heard outside the
kitchen window.

And the building and im-
proving goes on all the time

summer. Park officials again
report full capacity use this
season.

Winter campsites are
available in most parks but
facilities will be reduced
throughout the mountain
park block. Snow will close
others left open on a no-
charge no-facilities basis. Un-
til freeze up, park crews will
clean up campgrounds and
prepare them for weathering
approaching winter.

For a small fee, small
business entreprencurs can
learn how to better manage
their businesses.

Owner/Manager Courses
are quite a deal — that’s be-
cause development costs are
subsidized by the federal
government and distribution
costs are (in many cases)
subsidized by provincial gov-

, counting,

—sn
and cultural experience for
all the '

On the other hand, there is
a subtle and disconcerting
psychological aspect to this
thing:

I, for one, can remember
those wood-block pavements
(in Vancouver), the old-fash-
ioned railway station (in
Castlegar), the horsedrawn
bread and milk wagons (Van-
couver) and the old wood and
coal stoves with the warming

geared -
business

management skills will find
quite a selection: there ate
courses in marketing, ac-
management, fi-
nance, retailing, sales, tax-
ation, data processing etc. At
present, there are 30 courses
available both in English and
French.

Amini-catalogue, “In touch
with small business,” is being
distributed to the bank's loan

officers, chartered bank man-
h: of com-

Federal Business Develop-
ment Bank. They are de-
signed to meet the diversi-
fied needs of. the Canadian
Small Business community.
The courses are distri-
buted by provincial and ter-
ritorial ministries or depart-
ments of education and of-
fered through adult edu-
cation departments of com-
munity colleges and night

schools.
Business people who are
in imp their

1,

agers, ib
merce, boards of trade, in.
dustry: associations and bus-
iness editors of newspapers
and magazines across Can-
ada, It describes the courses
as well as.the teaching ap-
proach used.

The small business Owner/
Manager will find that no
previous formal business
training is required to benefit
from these courses.

In addition to the mini-

catalogue, other promotional ;

delivery wagon .

mSPIRIUT
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SEL AMMILIEA

racemes
FY ry
AMISIEAIR'S|

closet above it (everywhere).
I have fed generations of
them with armloads of wood

- and scuttles of coal, and built

small mountains of ash from
their waste as well.

The museum custodian
didn't need to call out “icebox
— old-fashioned refrigerator”
when I stopped by. that
upright wooden structure.
The iceman called regularly
at our house with a block of
ice on his shoulder, and it was
my job to empty the drain
pan at the, bottom.

In fact, there are so. many
things that I =
button hooks and knickers,
wood frame tennis raquets
and straw boaters — that I
find myself suffering a kind
of temporal identity crisis —
as if I were a kind of present-
day living museum’ piece.
‘Simultarieously,, I have a

vision of the same place
sometime in the not-too-
distant future:

“And this, fellow persons,
is a late 20th century male
who called himself John A.
Charters. Note the coarse,
ill-ftting body covering and
facial (ugh) hair. He is less
than 100 years old, yet you
will notice distinct signs of
aging — epidermal creasing,
loss of hair, pigmentation,
ete. The black device he has
hung so awkwardly about his
neck was called a camera. A
very popular toy in that time
which took (ha, ha) two
dimensional pictures.”

“We are very proud of the
expression on the model's
face, however, it is supposed
to be absolutely typical of
that primitive age. We call it

B7:

CASTLEGAR NEWS, September 2, 198) _

Music draws patients
out of closed worlds

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Therapists Kerry Burke and
Kay Thompson come to the
locked ward pushing a wheel-
chair full of small drums,
tambourines, maracas and a
belief that music can do more
than soothe the savage
breast.

The patients’ eyes light up
— they have been waiting for
something to relieve the
boredom — and as the music
therapists arrive the patients
stir into a commotion.

They may not all recognize
or remember Burke and
Thompson but Burke says
they. are excited: by any
visitors who break the mon-
otony at Valleyview Hospital.

The two work with pati-
ents whoare all more than 70
years old and suffer from
mental and physical ilineases.

Music has been used for
centuries as a relaxant and as
part of early medical rituals.
Therapists refine the art and
attempt to stimulate their
patients’ imaginations and to
help them. with: concentra-

Thank you, thank you.”

tion, and s0-
cial integration. :

“We're going to sing now,
would you like to sing?” say
the therapists. “Come and
join us in singing.”

The more enthusiastic pa-
tients take up positions in-
side a circle of chairs. Mean-
while, Burke and T
begin moving around the
room, encouraging others to
join their session.

“Many of these patients
are confused/" Burke says.
“They don't know where they
are. Sometimes they just
drift. We are going to try to
transform the energy level in
here.”

Music therapy is used to
help patients of all age
groups with physical, emo-
tional or psychological prob-
lems. Therapists use combin-
ations of recorded and live
music and musical improvi-
sation to treat their patients.

“Music provides a way of
understanding and of com-
munication that many people
don't have otherwise,” says
Burke. “The body, the mind,
the emotions — in music all
those functions are covered.” -

At first the patients are
shy, many of them sing very
quietly, a few just tap their
toes. But the music begins to
do its work, drawing the
patients out of their closed
worlds.

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UP TO

One man moves from a
frowning silence to slnging
the words out of the side of
his mouth, Finally, a smile
begins to cross his face, and
he joins fully in the singa-
long.

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Freddie had other things on his mind. He
formed Annie of his plight, and the inevitability of
heartedly
he suicide
idea what

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8, 1981; this day is NOT an “In-Service Day” for elementary teachers. Morning bus
runs will be in accordance with the established schedule, which will be published
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roc e Cape o! Hope Sa‘ Bank
juilding in St. Georges St. They went directly to the
second floor, where Annie was employed in the
accounting office of Mr. A.K. Wolfe. Annie knew
that Mr. Wolfe would be arriving late on that
particular day.
She nodded to several acquaintances before

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