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August 17 Toronto Werner Gruener […]
When
1980-08-17
Description
August 17 Toronto Werner Gruener, who had been charged but acquitted in the July 1977 rape and murder of Emanuel Jaques, was arrested at the Canadian National Exhibition grounds and charged with being a common nuisance for breathing fire on passersby. He was freed on bail on condition that he seek psychiatric testing and report weekly to a parole officer. On October 6, 1980, he was sentenced to one day in jail after being convicted of the charge. (See also December 18, 1980.)