Melville Wilkie
Toronto Daily Star, December 16 1932
A search revealed that Melville Wilkie was judged to be criminally insane and was locked up in the Ontario Hospital in Penetanguishene. He apparently used to escape regularly; reports on him and his escapes appear here, here, and here. A detailed report of his crime can be found in a 1932 edition of the Border Cities Star; his confession is horrific reading.
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