About 11:45 on the night of Sunday, August 1, 1965, the taxi dispatcher at the CPR station, Henry Sparrow, called for a cab to pick up two men aged 17 and 20. Moore's driver Stanley Hinks responded. The pair asked to be taken to the Canadian National Railway's Symington yards where the circus train of the Royal American Shows was parked. The pair claimed to be travelling with the circus. When Mr. Hinks stopped to let the men out near the corner of Dawson Road and Marion Street the 17-year-old hit him in the head with a rock. Mr. Hinks said, "Don't hit me again," and handed over his money. A witness in another car saw the men get out of the cab. Mr. Hinks then drove away "carelessly" and nearly hit the witness's car. When Mr. Hinks arrived at the Moore's Taxi office about 12:20 a.m. he was talking incoherently and complaining about a severe headache. Nevertheless he went to the St. Boniface police station and gave a good description of his assailants. Mr. Hinks lapsed into a coma soon after arriving at St. Boniface Hospital. He died two months later without regaining consciousness. He was 35 years old and married. Meanwhile, police arrested the two assailants who both pleaded guilty to robbery with violence. When Mr. Hinks died the two were charged with murder. The 17-year-old was tried as an adult. Both men were convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight years. Appeals were denied in both cases.

Stanley James Hinks. (Source: Winnipeg Free Press, October 5, 1965, p. 7) Just before midnight on September 1, 1966 ten prisoners, including the 17-year-old, broke out of Headingley jail. He and another escapee were arrested in Langdon, North Dakota the next day.