Arrested while awaiting son’s birth

Mountie wouldn't let father stay

By CHRIS LLOYD

Stewart Stanbrough
had stayed all night
with his common-law
wife in Lions Gate
Hospital, waiting for
the birth of their first
child.

But just as the crucial
moment appeared to be
nearing it seemed that all his
waiting was to be in vain and
he was to miss the birth
when an RCMP constable

Squamish band accused of bad faith

walked in and arrested him
for a driving offence out-
standing from 1977.

Tiredness had finally got
the better of the couple after
wailing together in the case
room for 16 hours. Twenty
two-year-old Claudia
Richter dozed off and 19-
year-old Stanbrough lay
down on the floor beside her
hospital bed and fell asleep
too.

When he awakened his
wife at about 5:30 a.m. it was
to tell her there was an

RCMP officer outside who
was taking him off to jail.

“We told him Stewart
would stay mght here until
the baby was born and asked
him to leave him until then
but he said ‘No’,” Richter
told the News from her
hospital room last week.

Stanbrough was taken to
the police cells and appeared
in provincial court later
Monday morning. He was
remanded on $1,000 bail to
face charges of driving while

But council won't cut off road talks

A notice of motion
designed to end = further
negotiations with the

Squamish Indian Band and
press ahead with a four-lane
crossing of the Seymour
River by bypassing Indian
land was rejected by North
Vancouver Distnect

counci)

Monday
Alderman Peter Powell
accused the band of bad

faith in its negotiations with
councH to negotiate a route
for the highway

Submitting his notice of

motion. Powell said “[ am
convinced that the band.
once it realizes that the
munkipahty and province
are prepared to po ahead
without them and that we

do have a viable alternative
to crossing Indian lands will
be

settlement

open to reasonable

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alternative” were given and
Mayor Don Bell said he not
only thought the Indians
were acting in good faith but
that he expected a firm
decision from them within a
few weeks

He anticipated hearnng
from the band within four
weeks as to whether or not a
bridge could be built: and
traffic could pass through
reserve lands

He said he would raise the
matter again after that ime

Powell had said “] am
aware that this notice of
Motion has ruffled ai few
feathers To be quite blunt,

it was intended to ~

He said he had patiently

waited three

years for oa

settlement and that his
patbence had now run out

There have been

meetings following meetings

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band are still at a virtual
standstill,” he said.

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impaired in December 1977
and failing to appear in court
for a trial December 14,
1978, following vanous court

appearances and = ad-
journments.
Fortunately for Stan-

borough, his son waited for
him to return before being
born and the man dashed
back to Lions Gate after his
court appearance’ and
arrived at 12:30 p.m.. just as
Richter was going into hard
labor.

The province has agreed
additional

to make some
land available to the band.

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At 2:05 p.m. she finally
delivered a 6lb.
and Stanbrough was there to
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The couple have named

their son John Alexander.

An RCMP spokesman who
was called to comment on
the matter and said he would
Investigate the cir-
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