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Above: Sparks Street, Ottawa, in 1900. The track cleaner seems unaware of the approaching streetcar. Below: Uwanta Lunch was something of an Ottawa institution. Established in 1897 it was still operating in 1932 as this advertisement attests. Sometime after 1926 it moved from Sparks Street to Bank Street.

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Top: Sparks Street Looking East, Ottawa, ON, 1900 (Wallis & Shepherd, 1900; McCord Museum MP-0000.27.168). Bottom: Program -- The Dumbbells at Embassy Theatre, Ottawa, Ontario -- 1932 (eBay item 22103908715). See alsoRestaurants All Ready to Handle Crowd,, Ottawa Citizen, April 23, 1926, p. 1.

Last Trip: The Death of Alfred Bonenfant / 24

The Arrest

Detective O'Meara soon learned about Malcolm McMillan and set off to find him armed with a description supplied by Alphonse Perras and Charles O'Connor.

Luckily for the detective McMillan woke up hungry shortly before three in the morning and went out in search of an all-night cafe. At 5 a.m. O'Meara was canvassing Ottawa's night spots when he walked into the Uwanta lunch room on Sparks Street and discovered his man.

McMillan was still drunk so O'Meara decided to take him into custody until he sobered up enough to give a lucid account of what he knew. McMillan's story ultimately cleared him of wrongdoing as far as O'Meara and Wright were concerned and they released him later that day.