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Standard Oil Products Limousine Service to Airport Campbell River B.C. _————_———$——————————— TWENTY-SEVENTH EDITION Informed sources said Leanhard, a 37-year-old car salesman, who had been watched by police in connection with narcotics traffic, was believed to have “crossed up” underworld charac- ters. Police said there was a strong smell of dynamite at the scene. On Eve of Trial The bombing occurred on the eve of the drug trafficking trial of Wil- liam Semenick, who repeatedly re- fused to tell police the names of men who tried to kill him last year. Semenick was given a three-month sentence in January for obstructing justice by not disclosing the identity of the men who took him for a ride and shot him in the groin as he escaped. Police said Leanhard had no police record in Vancouver but was believed mixed up in the West Coast’s lucrative drug traffic. It was reported the attack was another war between rival West Coast and Eastern Canada gangs to gain control of the Vancouver market. Police said they found a rifle in Leanhard’s ruined car. Danny was a dapper waiter, popu- lar at the club where he worked. He was vice-president of a club and cabaret waiters’ union. He usually carried about $3,000 with him, which, while it might be usual for Brent, is definitely unusual for any ordinary waiter. He had a flashy red convertible, which is also a bit unusual for a club waiter. “He was a nice fellow,” said his friends of a rooming house where he lived in a good residential section of Vancouver. They didn’t know Brent was an ex-convict. They didn’t know that he had a police record and was once well known as a safecracker. They didn’t know he was separated from his wife and was suspected of being involved in a love triangle. In fact one of the officials of the local union with which Brent was connected wrote an indignant letter to the newspapers for delving into Brent's past. But soon after Brent’s murder police found a huge cache of narcotics in his bank vault. Other Gang Killings Brent’s death occurred within the same month two high-rating racketeers met death in the United States in the familiar pattern meeted out by the hired killers who work for U.S. racketeers and have made Murder In- corporated a byword in that country. Reports say Brent had been sus- pected for two years as a narcotic wholesaler. It is believed he must have double-crossed a “big boy” of the underworld in a gangland fight for control of the multi-million West Coast drug traffic. Another report is, there is war in Vancouver between two narcotic-sell- ing syndicates. In any case, Brent was the victim. He was returning from work when the two killers forced their way into his convertible. His Last Cigarette In best gangland tradition they allowed him a last cigarette. His crumpled, rain-soaked, bullet- punctured body was later found on the tenth hole of the university golf course. He was shot three times in the head: once in the small of the back. Two other bullets, one into the side of the face and another through the neck were believed to have been fired by the trigger-happy killers while Brent was lying on the ground. His car was found the next day ten blocks from the murder scene. Police believe the shooting took place somewhere else in the city and the body was driven to the golf course. Brent may still have been alive when he was dumped under a tree behind the green. Well Paid Sadists Although, according to all reports, the hired assassins of the crime czars are well paid, they showed they are not adverse to adding to the income earned from their sadistic occupation. As stated before, Brent usually carried with him a nice round sum of $3.000. Only $1.50 was found on the body. The murder marked weeks of dis- sension in Vancouver underworld over control of the drug traffic in that city. As soon as Brent’s death was known an unidentified drug racketeer dis- appeared from his usual haunts. Others became uneasy and have prob- ably disappeared by now. Some have been beaten up. The new car of one was pushed over the end of a dock. “Other men have been marked for death,” says a Canadian Press report. (An article starting on page 20 of this magazine tells of the secret crim- inal societies of Europe, including the Mafia mentioned at the beginning of this article). * * eat. ee The Shoulder Strap ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY Page Sixty-three Fert athe