November 20, 1994 56 pages

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WEST VANCOUVER Police Det. Bob Fontaine cradles the clay death mask of Napoleon
Bonaparte, it and a number of Napoleonic treasures were stolen from a West Vancouver
coliector last weekend. The mask, a hat and a bust were recovered Thursday by police in
Vancouver, following a hit and run accident in the West End. The driver of the vehicle in
which the goods were found has to press time etuded police.

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A LIONS Gate Hospital!
(LGH) emergency depart-
ment doctor was threatened
and assaulted by a deranged
man whe two months later
killed Dr. Verne Flather.

By Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter

Ironically Dr. Michael O'Neil
was working when the lifeless body
of Verne Flither was rushed te the
emergency department.

“I didn't realize who he was. He
was covered in blood with a (oxy-
gen) mask on and people trying to
do CPR on him,” said O'Neil.

“Afterwards, one of the nurses

vas cleaning the blood off his face
and said, "Mike, this is Verne
Flather’. *

O'Neil found out shortly after
that he had had disturbing dealings
with Flather’s killer.

“Gre of my thoughts was | could
have easily been Flather,” said
O'Neil.

The ductor testified on Thursday,
the third day of an inquest in
Burnaby into the shooting of Flather
on April 22, 1992.

Flather was gunned down in
front of his home at 431 East Keith
Rd.

North Vancouver resident David
Henderson was found insane and
therefore not criminally responsible
for the shooting, The 52-year-old
unemployed shipyard worker was
confined to the maximum security
area in the Port Coquitlam Forensic
Institute.

in court evidence. Henderson
was deemed to be suffering from
paranoid schizophrenia with a strong
persecution complex at the ime of
the murder.

On the stand Thursday, O° Neil
said Henderson grabbed his arm.
lunged to grab his feet, and said “1
(Henderson) am the man and I
(O'Neil) was going to be his enemy”
during a 30-minute encounter on
Feb, 23, 1992, at LGH.

A loud. disruptive and delusion-
ary Henderson returned to LG
because of chroni¢ back pain.

OONeifs testimony about
Henderson's threats and assatidt of
the emergency physician came as
news to the police officer who
arrested Henderson atthe hospital.

Const. James Cross said “il
would have been a totally different

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