New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-08-11
SLIGHT CLEW IN MURDER CASE.
HOW MOUNTED POLICE TRACK DOWN
CRIMINALS.

Saskatchewan, y W T. July Is (speciaD.-In the
years since the discovery Of gold in the Klondike
brought the Northwest Territory into the public
eve. no body of men have been more important
than the mounted police, organized branch Of
the Canadian Government. The rush 10 the gold
fields brought hundreds OF desperate and criminal
characters into wild region, where ordinary police
methods would have been useless. Murder and
gold robberies and smuggling we're the crimes
which were most frequent. Many OF the murders
were most mysterious and almost without clews,
but in nearly every case the mounted police
rourded I'd the guilty, and cold Canadian justice
punished them.
So successful were they IN detecting crime no
matter how carefully hidden: IN following the
criminals however slight the clews. and in gather
ing convicting evidence that addition has been
made TO q familiar adage. It now goes, Murder
will always out if the mounted police are on the
trail" They have never been known TO give up
2 case involving murder until the mystery is solved
and the murderer apprehended. The cases which
have not been solved still held open, and the
police are still working them. and with just as
much energy as though the trail Were fresh.
The most striking murder mystery which the
mounted police have untangled ended here few
DAVIS ago when Charles Bullock, of Kalamazoo,
Mich was hanged for the murder Of Fred Stain
ton youth of nineteen who came into this great
northland TO take up ranch. The search for the
murderer took eight months time, and corporal
Of police travelled thousands Of miles before ne
70 the end and put ms mana on Ine murderer.
The police consider it time well spent. and delight
in telling the story in detail
Last June the body OF an unknown man was
found near the Bullock farm, on Battle River, near
this place. had been buried for several months.
and was absolutely unrecognizabe- Two bullet
holes in the rotting skull told of murder and the
To CORPORAL Hetherington given the case
he was told 10 take his time, to spend whatever
money was necessary. but 10 find the murderer and
identity Of the murdered man. No one had been
reported missing. and there seemed 10 be no cieW
about the mans clothes. In the coat was 4aoel'
which showed that the garment had been pIr-
firm, and the publicity which local newspapers gave
the letter brought out the fact that Leon Stanton
Young stainton's father came out from Michigan
and identified the clothes. but could not De posi-
Hetherington. and he began to trace. the young
mans movements from the time he left his home
n aspen. Col. he discovered that Stanton had
n 70 WIN young Bul,ock, WON d ne r. i f
Aspen to Great Fails. Mont: thence 10 Lethbridge
noka, From the latter place they started for the
Battle River country, where B}!locks father had
Young Bullock arrived at mis- fathers house and
10 Bftish iO o JnTeS uif bS ccdent he cor
poraI discovered that he had gone to Great Falls
the young man. but with a miserable kodak Ike,
ness ne began his search. No one knew what
name the fugitive had assumed. In the guise Of
laOorer the corporal went into rallroad camps
from one end Of the Portage Cut Off 20 the other.
At this time three letters, known 10 have been
written by Bullock. placed in the corporal 5
hand. He studied them for hours and finally To-
Gated one popularity. The letter 'S' was written
II q manner most peculiar. The up stroke was
straight and the down stroke same nearly to the
line and went straight back to the point OF be-
ginning with a little tail forward
i will search the pay rolls OF every concern
about Great Fails declared the detectlVe
If he has taken a name in which the IS does
not appear you will find him, said the local
officers, and they laughed at the slender clew
. Hundreds Of pay rolls were examined by the uI-
firing officer That peculiar 81 danced before his
eyes by only in his Imagination He had almost
given up hope when he came TO the pay camp al
Lice. Mont There he upon the name OF
= A. Sporting, and the s. was the one LOT winch
ne had searched 50 long.
Sporting was arrested at a neighporlng, camp
and taken to Great Falls. He was told that ne
was wanted for a crime committed IN iowa
have never been in Iowa, ne gaspeo with re-
Eef. My real name is Charles BULLOCK, ano m
from Michigan. Guess you've got the wrong man
Then Corporal Hetherngton spoke up: we
really want you for the murder or Leon STANTON
ana Charles Bullock is just the man we are look
Ing for"
Stanton was the best friend ] ever had ne
said Il know nothing about his death -,
There was no end of evidence that ne was the
murderer, however. and crown jury prougnt "a
verdict Of guilty The sentence or death was
passed and has been executed. The ~hole case
nung on that letter IS"