{"id":53187,"date":"2015-10-28T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=53187"},"modified":"2016-02-12T13:58:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T18:58:00","slug":"75-years-ago-silk-stocking-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2015\/10\/28\/75-years-ago-silk-stocking-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"The killing of Aune Newell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She\u00a0was found beneath\u00a0a coat hidden under\u00a0dogwood and sweet clover. Toronto parks department employee Harry Lemon saw her shoe first, carelessly discarded near the shore of Long Pond on Centre Island in the late summer of 1940.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Walking over scrubland behind the water treatment plant, Lemon discovered more items. A silver pencil, a white handkerchief, a garter, a purse. \u201cThere was no path, but I could see where the weeds and long grass had been pressed down.\u201d he\u00a0recalled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI knew at once it was a body.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">22-year-old Aune Newell had been strangled. One of her silk stockings had been used as a ligature around her neck. The <i>Toronto Star<\/i> reported that Newell had been missing from her home at a Grange Ave. boarding house for a week prior to being\u00a0discovered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Her estranged husband, 27-year-old Hugh Newell, a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force\u00a0who went by the nickname \u201cBill,\u201d and Elna Lehto, 24, his new girlfriend, were taken into custody\u00a0as material witnesses. Local media latched onto the story, dubbing it the \u201csilk stocking murder.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53343\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53343\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/20151027-SilkStocking-BodyFound.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-53343 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/20151027-SilkStocking-BodyFound.jpg\" alt=\"toronto aune newell\" width=\"700\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/20151027-SilkStocking-BodyFound.jpg 700w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/20151027-SilkStocking-BodyFound-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/20151027-SilkStocking-BodyFound-600x415.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toronto Star, Oct. 7, 1940.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">Early suspicions centred around Bill. He collected\u00a0Aune from her home the day she vanished. When she failed to return that evening, Bill told Aune\u2019s roommate that his wife had suddenly decided to go to Vineland to see their two-year-old son, Billie, who was living with an aunt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Aune didn\u2019t look typically Finnish. She had dark hair and eyes, and the <i>Toronto Star<\/i>\u00a0said she was slim and pretty. She was well-known in Toronto\u2019s Finnish community and was a regular at a social club on Huron St., where she liked to dance. Her friends affectionately called her \u201cSpooky.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bill Newell also had dark features.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>A powerfully-built narcissist who excelled at pole vault, he\u00a0was already married when he met Aune, though by the time his first\u00a0divorce was finalized he and Aune\u00a0were already sharing a house and raising their six-month-old son.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">His\u00a0commitment to Aune didn&#8217;t\u00a0last. Soon after the pair\u00a0got together, Bill began\u00a0courting\u00a0Elna Lehto, another woman of Finnish extraction. It was at this time in 1940 that Bill joined a group of Canadian-Finnish expats headed back to their homeland in an attempt to repel the invading Russians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The <em>Toronto Star<\/em> even published a photo of Bill kissing Lehto goodbye as his train departed the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Bill\u00a0stayed in the conflict long enough to lose an eye, but returned to Toronto within a year. In August, 1940, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and was posted to Brandon, Manitoba. It was at this point the friction between Bill and Aune began to noticeably increase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Because the pair had never divorced,\u00a0Bill&#8217;s military dependents&#8217; allowance automatically went to his estranged wife and son, much to his annoyance. In an attempt to obtain\u00a0a divorce and re-route the money to Lehto, Bill was reposted\u00a0to\u00a0St. Thomas, Ontario, but it appeared Aune staunchly rejected the idea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Apparently undeterred, Bill attempted to sweeten Aune with frequent\u00a0visits. On Sept. 29, 1940, he called at\u00a0Aune&#8217;s\u00a0rooming house to take her out for lunch. &#8220;I&#8217;ll be back in about an hour,&#8221; she told her roommate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53345\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53345\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/20151027-SilkStocking-Lighthouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-53345 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/20151027-SilkStocking-Lighthouse.jpg\" alt=\"toronto island lighthouse\" width=\"700\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/20151027-SilkStocking-Lighthouse.jpg 700w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/20151027-SilkStocking-Lighthouse-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/20151027-SilkStocking-Lighthouse-600x407.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53345\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toronto Public Library, S 1-1826B.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Several people\u00a0came heartbreakingly close to interrupting Aune&#8217;s\u00a0murder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">James Dibble, a foreman at the Island incinerator, near where the body was discovered, told the papers he had seen two people walking a seldom used trail the day Aune disappeared. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI saw a girl and a man walking through the field. The sweet clover grows nearly six feet high in some places and it was difficult to see them at first,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are a lot of pheasants there, and I watch to prevent dogs disturbing them, which is how I noticed the young couple.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dibble said he stopped to watch some fisherman on the shore and when he looked again the pair had vanished. Later, he reported hearing a girl screaming loudly and investigated the sound in his canoe. \u201cI pulled my canoe up on the bank not 50 feet from where the body was found today,\u201d he said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Finding nothing, he retreated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Another may have seen the murder in process. Marion Maynes, an Island resident, saw a young woman sitting on the shore of Long Pond, motionless. \u201cShe was just staring out into space. Just sitting, staring.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When Aune was eventually found, she was lying on her side, arms folded beneath her chest, legs tucked up against her body, possibly in an attempt to hide her from view. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A team of police officers led by Sergeant\u00a0McCaffrey scoured the area for clues but didn\u2019t find much. No sign of a struggle, no hint\u00a0of\u00a0where the killing had taken place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">They did find a thread caught on a bush.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53341\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53341\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/20151027-SilkStocking-McBride.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53341\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/20151027-SilkStocking-McBride.jpg\" alt=\"toronto sam mcbride\" width=\"700\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/20151027-SilkStocking-McBride.jpg 700w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/20151027-SilkStocking-McBride-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/20151027-SilkStocking-McBride-600x353.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toronto Public Library, S 1-1445.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">Following a lunch\u00a0at a diner on Adelaide St., Bill suggested he and Aune walk in the pleasant Fall weather on Centre Island. On the way to the ferry dock, Aune&#8217;s former boss\u00a0saw\u00a0the pair from\u00a0her car and waved\u2014a mundane interaction that would later prove critical.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">After returning to the city, Bill told police\u00a0he went to a swimming pool on Manning\u00a0Ave. An attendant there remembered someone entering with an expired pass, though he couldn&#8217;t be sure if the name on the card was Newman or Newell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Bill&#8217;s behaviour under police questioning was suspicious. He was overly anxious that police discover a letter he had written to Aune two days after she had\u00a0disappeared in which he asked for custody of their son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">More telling, however, were several angry notes Bill\u00a0had written to\u00a0his new partner, Elna Lehto, in which he ranted about Aune&#8217;s ability to collect\u00a0the allowance his work provided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;Try to control your temper &#8230; banish those ugly thoughts from your mind,&#8221; Lehto wrote in response to a letter police tantalizingly could not\u00a0find.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Convinced they had a case, police charged Bill Newell with Aune&#8217;s murder.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53347\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53347\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/20151027-SilkStocking-EasternGap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53347\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/20151027-SilkStocking-EasternGap.jpg\" alt=\"toronto eastern gap\" width=\"700\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/20151027-SilkStocking-EasternGap.jpg 700w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/20151027-SilkStocking-EasternGap-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/20151027-SilkStocking-EasternGap-600x402.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toronto Public Library, S 1-2045A.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">At trial, the Crown\u00a0presented mud and seeds removed from\u00a0a pair of Bill&#8217;s boots as evidence he had been present at Aune&#8217;s murder. A botanist, soil expert, and geologist all testified. A fibre expert compared the light blue\u00a0thread found by Sergeant\u00a0McCaffrey\u00a0to Bill&#8217;s Air Force uniform, finding them similar but not a conclusive match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Elna Lehto spoke in defence of her partner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The most shocking revelation came from\u00a0an Air Force flight sergeant who had visited Bill in jail. Lloyd Rawlins testified how\u00a0his colleague had offered a detailed and unsolicited account of how Aune&#8217;s murder might have occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;It could be done by getting behind a person, putting the arms around the body, turning the knuckle in here [indicating the region of the heart] and exerting pressure so the person would be rendered unconscious,&#8221; he told Rawlins. The fatal stocking ligature could have been applied while Aune was unconscious, Bill\u00a0added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The evidence failed to persuade the jury either way, however, and the judge declared a mistrial.\u00a0A second trial, punctuated by allegations of jailhouse beatings and the defendant&#8217;s aggressive outbursts, also resulted in a hung jury.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53348\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53348\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/20151027-SilkStocking-WesternGap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53348\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/20151027-SilkStocking-WesternGap.jpg\" alt=\"toronto western gap\" width=\"700\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/20151027-SilkStocking-WesternGap.jpg 700w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/20151027-SilkStocking-WesternGap-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/20151027-SilkStocking-WesternGap-600x360.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toronto Public Library, S 1-1276A.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">During the third trial, the prosecution\u00a0scored a stunning coup. Elna Lehto, who had previously testified for the defence, agreed to switch sides. Bill Newell flushed red and appeared\u00a0ready\u00a0to boil over with rage as she was introduced as a surprise witness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Lehto told the rapt court how Bill had returned home with cuts on his face the evening of Aune&#8217;s disappearance. With nothing else to hand, she&#8217;d filled the wounds with antiseptic cold cream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Aune&#8217;s former boss, who saw the pair from her car, and\u00a0Marion Maynes, the woman who recalled seeing\u00a0a person matching Aune&#8217;s description\u00a0sitting motionless on the shore of the\u00a0Island, testified for the first time, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Swayed by the slew of new\u00a0evidence, a\u00a0third jury found Bill Newell guilty of Aune&#8217;s murder. The judge, Mr. Justice Hope, said he should be hanged at the Don Jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;I am not guilty,&#8221; an uncharacteristically calm Bill told the court before being led away.\u00a0&#8220;I never killed by wife and would not. I never killed anybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">His avenues for appeal exhausted, Bill Newell was led to the gallows in the cold early morning hours of\u00a0Feb. 12, 1942. In the mistaken belief he would be spared if he survived, Bill had worked hard to strengthen\u00a0his neck muscles in the days before the execution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Instead, it just prolonged the inevitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She\u00a0was found beneath\u00a0a coat hidden under\u00a0dogwood and sweet clover. Toronto parks department employee Harry Lemon saw her shoe first, carelessly discarded near the shore of Long Pond on Centre Island in the late summer of 1940. Walking over scrubland behind the water treatment plant, Lemon discovered more items. A silver pencil, a white handkerchief, a<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2015\/10\/28\/75-years-ago-silk-stocking-murder\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;The killing of Aune Newell&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8234,"featured_media":53344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[69,24,18,5],"tags":[22123,22133,22134,22122,22015,22119,19],"class_list":["post-53187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curiosities","category-history","category-neighbourhoods","category-waterfront","tag-22123","tag-aune-newell","tag-bill-newell","tag-island","tag-murder","tag-silk-stocking","tag-toronto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The killing of Aune Newell - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2015\/10\/28\/75-years-ago-silk-stocking-murder\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The killing of Aune Newell - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"She\u00a0was found beneath\u00a0a coat hidden under\u00a0dogwood and sweet clover. 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