Word: guay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that exploded and killed 23 people (including President E. T. Stannard of Kennecott Copper Corp. and two other Americans) on a Quebec Airways plane in September 1949. A watchmaker, Ruest made the bomb with a stick of dynamite and the mechanism of an alarm clock for his friend Albert Guay, in return for a $10 ring. Guay wanted to kill his wife, who was on the plane, not only because he had a mistress whom he preferred, but also to collect a $10,000 insurance policy...
...Guay was hanged 18 months ago. Scheduled for execution in October: Ruest's sister, Mrs. Marguerite Pitre, who carried the bomb to the airport and checked it on to the plane...
...Albert Guay, 33, died on the gallows at Bordeaux jail in Montreal last week. During his last hours, the wavy-haired little jeweler wrapped himself in the same callous arrogance with which he had plotted the time-bomb murder of his wifeand 22 othersaboard a Quebec Airways plane 16 months ago. He methodically worked crossword puzzles in his death cell, looked up once to say to his guards: "At least I die famous...
...Guay's execution, originally set for last June 23, had been postponed because Crown authorities thought he might be needed to testify in the trial of Bombmaker Genereux Ruest, who has been ordered hanged March 16. Guay was not called, however. At midnight, all hope gone, Guay heard a special Mass, then, repeating the chaplain's prayers in a loud voice, walked unassisted to the scaffold...
...Quebec last autumn which took the lives of three Kennecott Copper Corp. executives and 20 others (TIME, Sept. 19), investigators turned up shocking evidence. The crash was no accident; it was planned murder. To get rid of his wife, who was aboard the plane, a jeweler named Albert Guay had planted a dynamite bomb in the freight compartment. Last week a trial jury took just 14 minutes to find Guay guilty. The sentence: death by hanging...