It described Dr. Shulman’s liberal policies towards the mentally ill in Madoc’s Landing and explained how the town council objected to Dr. Shulman removing the bars from the rooms of the harmless patients. On the front page, they’d reprinted an old photograph of Dr. Shulman from The Chronicle, which showed Ben’s father standing beside a twenty-foot-high pile of steel bars, the ones taken down on his orders. According to the Toronto newspaper, Dr. Shulman claimed that the bars and locks were still on the cells of the killers in Maple Ridge, so there was no reason to blame his policies for John’s escape. The newspaper also ran a picture of John in his Red Wings uniform. He looked young, like a boy I might pass on the street playing road hockey. His hair stood up in an oily pompadour and his big eyes were dark and shiny under his brows. The photo caption read: “The hockey killer once bragged that he will spring himself from any jail that dares to hold him.”
