Potion for Slackers

In Quebec, where men often demand freedom to evade the fight for freedom, opposition to conscription reached strange extremes : In Sherbrooke, Gunner Lucien Rocheleau testified that Mrs. Theodore Provencher had told him to wrap a religious, picture in blue silk (color of the Virgin Mary), hang it around his neck. Then she had given him a special prayer to read on nine consecutive nights, finally some pills to make him sick and insure his discharge from the army. For these services his mother paid Mrs. Provencher $16. The Mounted Police charged Mrs.

Provencher with 16 violations of Canada's Defense Regulations, said that she had at least 125 customers for her potions and special prayers.

In St. Lambert de Levis (near Quebec City), Georges Guenette was a hunted man, suspected of evading the draft and beating up a constable. Last week four Mounties found Guenette in his father's farmhouse. He jumped out of a window, ran across the fields. Guenette fell, wounded "by a ricocheting bullet," died without the last rites of the church.

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