Giuseppi Giusti was at his taxi stand at about 6 p.m. on Saturday, October 30, 1926, when a man came up and arranged an out-of-town trip to the village of Garson Mine. Mr. Giusti's 15-year-old son John was with him at the stand and described the man as tall and wearing a dark overcoat. Mr. Giusti failed to return home. About 10:30 p.m. on Sunday night Mr. Giusti's car was found near Sacred Heart College in Sudbury. About 9:30 on Monday morning a local dairyman found the taxi driver's body on the Sudbury Highway about three miles west of Garson Mine. He had been shot six times with a .32 calibre automatic. One bullet wound was in his abdomen with the other five in his head, shoulders and upper arms. Police discovered that a wedding celebration had been going on at a house in Garson Mine. Two men had joined in the festivities, one of them tall and wearing a dark overcoat. The host didn't ask their names, but police assumed the second man was Mr. Giusti. Nine years later, in 1935, the case remained unsolved but a weatherbeaten wooden cross still marked the spot where Mr. Giusti's body was found.

The shaft head of Garson mine, 1927 (Source: Toronto Star Photograph Archive, Courtesy of Toronto Public Library, accession no. tspa_0009545f)