(1909-16 Aug. 1952), businessman. (Leonard Hurd, Leonard Z. Hurd) Born at East Templeton, Que. Parents: Nicholas Hurd and his wife Marianne Scarf. Leonard Hurd was married in 1934 to Edna Frances Blaney (1909-1983). (three children) They settled in Maxville in 1935, and there Leonard Hurd built up a garage, and a school bus, trucking and taxi business. Leonard Hurd was murdered a mile south of Maxville, after answering a call for taxi services. (Glengarry News 22 Aug. 1952) Henri Seguin was convicted of the murder, but he committed suicide in Cornwall jail immediately before he was to be hanged. A few months before Leonard Hurd’s death his son, Harris Hurd, 16, was killed in a motorcycle accident. (GN 25 April 1952)
Maxville (1991) 584-586 * gravestone, Maxville Cemetery * GC and city press, e.g. Ottawa Citizen 20 Aug. 1952 * The Manor Chatter Sept. 2007: a re-telling of the murder story, with good group portrait (names and occupations added) of Maxville residents at “Meeting… Held to Organize the Search for the Murderer”