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Show Lawyer's Nose Helped Solve Plane Bombing An account of how his sense of smell helped solve the 1949 time bombing of a Canadian Air Lines airplane in which 23 persons per-sons were killed has won the Readers Digest $2,500.00 "First Person" award for Terrance F. Flahiff, a Montreal lawyer. Flahiff, now a vice president of the Quebec North Shore Paper Co., and his wife flew in the ill fated plane from Montreal to Quebec City Sept. 9, 1949, but escaped with their lives when they decided to week end there instead of continuing on to Baie Comeau. The lawyer was with the search praty which found the wreckage. At the scene he stumbled and fell face down into the fur of one victim's coat. In the dew moistened fur he smelled the "sweet burnt sugary smell of high explosive." Mr. Flahill, a one time Crown prosecutor, told detectives about his discovery. This plus, technician's techni-cian's findings that there had been an explosion in the plane's baggage compartment uncovered the bomb plot. Ultimately, J. Albert Guay, a jewelry salesman, and two accomplices ac-complices were convicted of dynamiting the plane to kill Mr. Guay's wife for $10,000 insurance, insur-ance, and because of an affair Guay was having with a teenage waitress. As the judge sentenced Guay to hang, he intoned in French, "Nothing escapes the justice of God." Several companies sell fine adding machines, but in the field of subtraction the one-armed bandit is tops. |