CANADA Dope Peddler
Depending on whether they read their news in English or French, Montrealers last week got different slants on the same story. The French-language press reported that a man named Taillefer had pleaded guilty to five charges of keeping and selling narcotics. English papers were more specific: the man was the Rev. Arthur Taillefer, curate of the Roman Catholic Church of Ste.-Madeleine d'Outremont. In the prisoner's dock at the Palais de Justice, Father Taillefer had confessed that he was a key figure in the biggest narcotics ring ever uncovered in Montreal.
With Taillefer admittedly guilty and awaiting sentence (maximum...
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