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Death at the Harbourview Cafe : a true crime story / Fred Humber.

by Humber, Fred.

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Flanker Press, 2017.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police -- Officials and employees -- Crimes against -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Botwood.

Murder -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Botwood.

Police murders -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Botwood.

9781771176262 (pbk.)

230 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

"Botwood, a town in north-central Newfoundland and Labrador, 1958. In the midnight blackness of a cold November night of mixed rain and snow, three RCMP officers entered a restaurant by way of an upstairs window. Rumours around town had been rampant. The owner's son had been missing for days. Father and son hated each other. He had been stabbed, or shot, and had been dumped somewhere, or he had been cut into pieces and put into a freezer to be secretly disposed of later. This unfolded as a German ship, the Alstertal, was scheduled to return to port, whereupon crew members intended to kill both father and son, feeling quite justified in doing so. No one was paying attention to the many warning signs of impending disaster. As the police cautiously made their way toward the living quarters door, a terrible chapter in the history on Newfoundland and the RCMP was about to be written. Author Frederick Humber was born in Botwood, Newfoundland and Labrador. On the evening of November 6, 1958, while he was taking his first guitar lesson on Burt's Lane in Botwood, an unusual and frightening event took place. It affected Fred Humber so dramatically, it stayed with him over the years. A number of chance encounters in 2013 led him to make the decision to get to the bottom of the great tragedy that rocked his hometown. Three lives had been lost, two citizens wounded, and a business owned by a long-time Chinese citizen destroyed. Rumours abounded. An enquiry was held but was never released. Long-term suffering was visited upon first responders and the townspeople that lasted for over fifty-eight years. Many people went to their graves never knowing the facts. This is Fred Humber's first book"--Provided by publisher.

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