Henry Bingham
Toronto Daily Star, June 18 1931
This edition of the Toronto Daily Star contained a photo of a man who prevented an armed robbery of his service station. A further article appeared later in that day's paper:
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to definitely locate Henry Bingham, the heroic gas station attendant. The 1931 directory does not list him, and the 1931 and 1932 directories state that the occupant of 1213 Dufferin was John A. Whitten, a bricklayer.
The 1932 directory does list a Henry Bingham who was working as a carpenter and living in Scarborough. If this was the same man, I don't blame him for moving far away from gas stations and thugs with guns. He wasn't in the 1935 directory, which I checked at random, so perhaps he just wandered on down the road somewhere.
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