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William Earl Lama, 49, is a nimble little man (116 Ibs.) of elusive gaze and elusive ways. The police chief of Cornwall Township, Ont., aptly named Robert Henry Hawkshaw, had been after him ever since Lama's wife and nine-year-old daughter were found last Aug. 16, murdered with a knife, in the tin-covered Lama shack. There were "at least 71 reports that he'd been seen," but every time the police got there, Lama "had gone...
...Corners and in the bush, picked up food where he could. Once, police passed within three feet of him. Another time he was in the basement of a house in nearby Moulinette while police sleuthed around upstairs. People who sighted him, wraithlike in the night, called him "the Wandering Lama." Small boys jeeringly wrote on fences: "Lama was here...
Then a part-time county constable from Moulinette, who hadn't made a big arrest in 20 years, heard noises in the empty house next door. The police surrounded the house, yelled, "Come out!" Lama sheepishly came out, bummed a cigaret and said he couldn't have committed the murders because he was in Montreal that day. As Chief Hawkshaw clapped Lama in jail, the Chief sighed: "I'm too old for this sort of thing...
...stands the Holy Sepulcher, erected as most Christians believe on the site of Golgotha (the Place of the Skull). There Christ suffered on the Cross and uttered, in extremis, the words of the Psalmist which echo over the centuries the cry of many a Palestinian Jew today: "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?-My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken...
Finally Walska's patience gave out. If the self-styled White Lama would kindly clear out of her penthouse and take his father with him, she would divorce him, pay him $1,500 a month alimony. That was all right with the White Lama...