http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/04/30/canada/antlers_sold040430

Alberta man admits selling prize antlers

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 10:49:22



EDMONTON - After a week in an Alberta jail for refusing to turn over a set of prize deer antlers, a 75-year-old man was sent back to his cell on Thursday for refusing to say what he did with the money when he apparently sold the family heirloom last year.

Don Broder admitted in an Edmonton court he sold the world-record rack last May.

The trophy had been in the family since Broder's father, Ed, shot the buck in 1926.

The antlers are famous in hunting circles, still holding the world record for a non-typical mule deer.

Don Broder has had the antlers since 1973, but in 1997 his six siblings launched a lawsuit to have the trophy antlers sold and the money divided.

The Broder siblings won a court decision in March. Saying he promised his dying father in 1968 never to let the antlers be sold, Broder was found in contempt of court for not handing them over and put in jail last Friday.

On Thursday, he admitted he doesn't have the antlers anymore.

Elizabeth MacInnis, the lawyer for Broder's siblings told the court she had been in contact with a lawyer representing a man in Montana man who claimed he had purchased the antlers.

MacInnis said the antlers were sold last May for $171,000 US. Tests are planned to prove the rack in Montana is the Broder buck.

A judge has ordered that Broder remain in jail until he tells the court where the money went.

Justice Myra Bielby also said she would report the new developments to the justice minister. Broder and one of his sons could face further charges including perjury and obstruction of justice.

CBC News reported on Tuesday that an American businessman specializing in taxidermy was offered the antlers by someone who said he bought them from Broder.

Hello;
Funny, some guy in Quebec has to post a story that is happening just down the road from me, in Sundre. I don,t know this family personally, but according to the local paper, when the old man died without a will, the relatives all helped themselves to anything of value, antiques, coin collection and stuff like that. No one thought the head of any value and were happy to let Don have it. Then 30 years later, the smell of money filled the air and everyone figured he deserved a piece of it. Boder apparently promised his father, on his death bed, he would keep the head till he died and donate it to some non-profit Alberta museum, so it would stay in the province.
Don Boder's children were a little taken aback that they had the option of replacing their father in jail. " If they're willing to let a guy out, and let someone else replace him, maybe he shouldn't be there in the first place. You wouldn't let a murderer go to jail and let his cousin replace him?" Craig Boder.
Grizz

Grizz - I think you pretty much have it right on. I met
a fellow this week that knows the Broders and knew what he
was talking about. This peeing match started when a figure
of 1 million dollars came up. This started to get their
attention. I met this fellow before Broder said they were
sold and he told me that the most those horns were worth
was $40,000.00 US so if some fool wanted to pay $171,000.00
for them I guess maybe the old guy could have sold.
I think they're still here hid away but that is just my
opinion.

Hello;
I tend to agree with the hidden away part, he seems pretty determined to not let them go. According to the article in our local paper, Don Broder is in pretty rough shape and I can't see the money being of much use to him. He's 75 years old, on medication and awaiting his fourth hip replacement. The deer was apparently shot near Chip Lake.
Grizz