Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-07

investigated. We have record OF all the
settlers, and we go over the route and
make the policemen produce these signed
statements showing that each man has
been visited. 1t may be that the farmer
will claim his cattle has been stolen. If
so, the policeman goes with him to trace
the thieves, and if they are found he sees
that they are brought to justice and pun
ished. In many cases such complaints are
false alarms and the policeman and farmer
find that the stock has merely strayed
into some valley near by. Nevertheless we
make many arrests. There were more than
three thousand convictions for crime and
other offenses in the Northwest Territories
last year Many OF the offenses Were petty
ones, and this number, all told, covers
population of more than AGO 600, scattered
over the enormous region l have described.
1t seems to me small"
DO you have many murders"
I'VE have had thirteen in four years"
said Col White, land of those thirteen
only two of the criminals were Canadians"
No Lynchings Nor Hold-Ups.
How about lynching?'
I'VE have never had one man lynched in
Canada, and more than that we have never
had hold-up oA our railroads. l will not
say that plans have not been made TO rob
our trains, but so far we have clrcumvent-
ed them. Indeed the records show that
travelling is far safer in northern Canada
than in the western part of your country.
I remember two or three instances which
occurred renently where men had evidently
schemed to hold up the trains on the Cana
dian Pacific railroad. In one of these the
would-be thieves had a team Of fine horses
and carriage shipped to the point where
they expected to rob the train. Our police
knew something was wrong, and we had
force on the lookout The men found that
we We're watching them, and as n result
they gave up the attempt and drove off
toward the south. We have not heard of
them since"
The Story of a Crime
Il should think there must be many
crimes in the northern wilds which could
never be discovered" said l.
Il don't believe It," replied Col White
Our police get reports from every part of
the territory. They are careful in collect
ing information, and anything out Of the
way is sent in to them. They are able de-
tectives, and they discover crimes which
would puzzle a Sherlock Holmes Take
the murder of Edward Hayward. young
Englishman, who was killed at the Lesser
SlaVe Lake away up in the wilds hundreds
of miles from nowhere about II year ago.
His murderer was discovered and convict
ed by the mounted police, and he was
hanged only short time ago.
The murderers name was Charles King,
an American, who came from Salt Lake
City to Edmonton where he met Fawa- q
had brought some money with him expecc-
ing to settle and make his fortune in our
northwest He fell in with King at Ed
monitor and King filled his head with the
possibilities of fortune making in the far
north. He persuaded Hayward 10 buy
horses. tools and arms, and go with hi n
to look for gold mines, which he said eX-
listed about the Lesser Slave Lake
Soon after this the two men started off
with e. full prospecting equipment. They
had been gone some weeks when an Indian
n N nf THa mint
ed police of the vicinity where they had
been camping, that two strangers had come
into the country and that one of them ha
disappeared. The Indian said that he had
noticed q big fire where the camp was and
that the ashes covered 50 much ground
that he was sure something was wrong.
THE mounted policemen then went along
with the Indian. He found the remains OF
the fire, and followed a track evidently
made by one man, which led away from 1t.
He kept on the trail and after many days
came up with King on his way back 10
Edmonton The policeman asked King
what had become of his companion. and
King replied that he had taken another
trail and gone on to British Columbia. This
seemed very strange to the policeman and
he arrested King on the charge of murder
and started back to get the evidence. The
first thing he did was TO gather up the
ashes of the camp fire and sift them The
result was that he discovered pieces OF
floah and bones. and also two or three but
tons, sailmaker's needle and a watch
cnafm uSeu LOT carrying SOlQ colfl.- All
these things were packed up and shipped
east to be examined and analysed by our
specialists. Their report was that tho
bones were those of human being.
I'm addition to this the policeman traced
Kings tracks to a little lake nearby. With
the assistance of another policeman he cut
ditch and drained the lake. Upon its
bottom lay two pairs of boots and other
articles which were 9afterward proved TO
have been sold to Hayward. When the
case was tried a brother of Hayward was
brought out from England to identify some
of these articles, and the result of the
whole was that King was convicted and
hung.
"A curious statement was made at this
trial." concluded Col. White. I'VE had
proven that the murder was committed on
September 49, away out there on the banks
of the Lesser Slave lake. At the trial 1t
was stated under oath that on the morning
of Septe mber 10, the day following the
murder, Henry Hayward, the brother.
who was then at North Mundham. Eng
land told his sister of a hideous dream he
had had that night, In which he had seen
his brother Edward shot and flung upon
huge bonfire. This story was told months
before the Canadian government had COM
municated the news of the death 10 the
family.
A Bard Of Explorers.
"The mounted police are doing a great
deal in the way of explorations,