Annie Jeannette Harper

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• Name: Annie Jeannette Tippin
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-65293

Annie — George Elliott Smith Tippin. George was born 22 Apr 1906, Arkwright, Arran Township, Bruce, Ontario, Canada; died 14 Feb 1986, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-71934

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• Interesting: Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; suicide, crime, scandal
• Name: Reginald Tippin
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-65287

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Years before fatal standoff, tombstone warned of revenge
By Steve Cannon
Record Staff

Reg Tippin bought a headstone etched with the words "Revenge Shall Be Mine." more than 15 years before he shot at police and died in a weekend standoff at his Cambridge home.

The odd, black stone --- a perfect 13-inch cube --- marks an empty grave in the 'Pippin family plot in the New Hope Cemetery

Its macabre message, long a curiosity for neighbourhood children. now reads like a warning. "We asked him once why he put those words on it," Richard Bullock, the lead hand at the Hespeler cemetery, said Monday.

All he said was that he planned on taking someone with him when he goes."

Tippin's body was found early Sunday in a charred bedroom in the Queen Street home where he lived most of his 69 years and where he died with police at his door.

Rob Hughes, the lead investigator for the Special Investigations Unit, said it could he three or four clays before he finishes a report on now Tippin died, or how the fire that destroyed his home was started.

The SIU probes any deaths in which police are involved and until its work is done, Waterloo regional police say they cannot comment on the deadly standoff.

What is known is that Tippin's mother, Jean, died in September and there were plans to sell the home she had shared with her troubled son as a way to settle her estate.

No one is sure yet if the idea of losing his home set Reg Tippin off, though people who knew him doubt it was the sole factor. Neighbours said he had talked about guns and murder for years.

"It was only a matter of time," one woman said Monday as she watched investigators comb through the burned-out house clown the street. "We knew this would happen".

It began to happen late Saturday afternoon.

With a pistol in his hand and an apparent plan on his mind, Tippin made his way to the nearby fish and chips shop run by Elaine Gallant.

Gallant spotted Tippin coming and, with an employee, ran into a neighbouring convenience store.

Gallant, who was the executor of Jean Tippin's will, locked a wooden door behind her Soon after, Reg Tippin shot two bullets through the door, then apparently retreated to his home.

The police arrived soon after. With the power cut to the neighborhood to hide the officers who had surrounded his two-storey home, Tippin fired several shots into the dark.

Shortly before midnight, flames could be seen inside the house. Soon after, Tippin was found dead inside.

Detectives and investigators with the Ontario Fire Marshal's office worked through the day Monday, scouring the charred house by flash-light.

On the front porch, officers used a screen to carefully sift through handfuls of burned debris in a painstaking search for clues.

Hughes said he has not yet interviewed officers involved in the stand-off. Nor does he know yet how many he will speak with.

"This is kind of a different case," he said. "With the fire marshal here, and all that's gone on, this could take some time."

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• Name: Harper Arthur Raymond Stewart
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-71935

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Harper Arthur Raymond Stewart (name changed to Stewart)