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July 9, TOKO News ORS-2131 Classified 986-6222 paupes

POLICE BELIEVE THE
EXPLOSION LINKED
TO COFFIN DROP

WEST Vancouver Police are investigating two related inci-
dents involving a bomb explosion at one British Properties
Thursday

home and the delivery
morning.

The incidents are believed to be
linked co coffin deliveries Thurs-
day and a car torching Tuesday in
Richmond, a coffin delivery
Thursday morning to the doorstep
of a Granville island businessman,
and coffin deliveries and car tor-
chings in Bellingham carlier this
week.

Locally, an incendiary device
exploded shortly after 7:30 a.m. in
the garage of an opulent, newly
constructed Millstream Road resi-
dence occupied by lawyer Roger
Lawrence and family. His wife
Donna unwittingly triggered the
bomb’s sophisticated detonator.
The bomb appeared to have been
made of a small battery, a small
amount of gun powder and a det-
onator.

According to police, the woman
teceived minor powder burns to
her clothing, and her hair was
singed.

Said West Vancouver Sgt. Hugh
Carleton: ‘‘Had the woman not
continued walking and put some
distance between her and the
bomb, it could have definitely
caused serious bodily injury. We’re
treating this case as more than a
nuisance case.””

Later that morning, at 11:30
a.m., a life-size, home-made pine
coffin was delivered to a
Millstream hore, located a block
away from the bombing site. The
coffin had “‘R.1.P.°" written on it

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of a coffin to

another

By MICHIAET, BECKER
News Reporter

and a synspathy card was taped to
it. Police believe the coffin was
mistakenly delivered to the wrong
house, and had been meant for
delivery a block down the road.
The coffin was delivered by two
men in a van.

Meanwhile in Vancouver, a cof-
fin was delivered to a Granville
Island address early Thursday
morning. A coffin was discovered
standing upright at the entrance to

a Johnston Road building at 8 a.m.

According to a Vancouver
Police spokesman, the coffin had
written on the side of it, ‘‘R.I.P.
Mike Richards”’

In Richmond, Thursday, two
coffins were dumped on the St.
Brides Place lawn of Richmond
resident Ron Johnson. The man’s
car was found aflame 4:18 a.m.
July 4.

Earlier this week in Bellingham,
a former Vancouver stock broker
and businessman involved in the
mining industry, now living across
the border, received two coffins
and had his car torched.

Said Carleton: ‘‘They (the vic-
tims) are all known to each other
as business associates. It’s safe to
say there is a link between the
coffins and the fires.”’

Carleton said police have a
number of suspects.

Bowling toe the top

NORTH VANCOUVER lewn bowlers Peter Fish (left) and Mark Raymond recently
won the B.C. Pairs Championship at a tournament in South Vancouver. The two will
be rolling for gold in August at the Canadian Championships is: Edmonton. See story

page 19.

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