Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-07

safer IN northern Canada than in the
western part OF your country | re-
member t'wo or three instances when
occurred recently whore men had evil
IDENTIFY schemed to hold up the trains On
the Canadian Pacific railroad. In one
Of these the would-be thieves had
team OF fine horses and a carriage
shipped TO the point where they eX-
pected to rob the train. our police
knew something was wrong, and we
had q force on the lookout, The men
found that we were watching them,
and as result they gave up the at
tempt and drove off toward the south.
We have not heard OF them since"
THE STORY OF A CRIME.
~ should think there must be many
crimes Ia the northern wilcs which
could never be discovered" said |.
II don't believe IT," replied Col.
White. our police get reports from
every part of the territory. They are
careful In collecting information, and
anything out OF the way Is sent In IN
them. They are able detectives, and
they discover crimes which would puz-
zle a Sherlock Holmes, Take the muir
der OF Edward Hayward, young Eng
lshman, who was killed at the Lesser
Slave lake away mp In the wilds, hum
dreds OF miles from nowhere about q
year ago. His murderer was discovered
and convicted by the mounted police.
and he was hanged only a short time
ago.
The murderer, name was Charles
King an American, who came from
Salt Lake City TO Edmonton, where
he met Edward Hayward. an English
immigrant. Hayward had brought some
money with him, expecting to settle
and make his fortune in our northwest.
He fell IN with King at Edmonton, ana
King filled his head with the possihili-
ties OF fortune-making In the far north,
He persuaded Hayward TO buy horses.
tools and arms. and so with him to
look for gold mines, which he said ex-
listed about the Lesser Slave lake.
Soon after this the two men started
off with full prospecting equipment.
They had been gone some weeks when
an Indian notified one of the sergeints
OF the mounted police, of the vicinity
where he had been camping, that two
strangers had come into the country,
and that one of them had disappeared.
The indian said that he had noticed a
big fire where the camp was, aud that
the ashes covered so much ground that
he was sure something was wrong.
ne HlOuHltu lOllttllltH lNtil NtllN
along with the Indian. He found the
remains of the fire, and followed a
track evidently made by one man, which
led away from IT, He kept on the trail
and after many days came up with
King on his way back TO Edmonton.
The policeman asked King what had
become of his companion, and King
replied that he had taken another trail
and gone on 20 British Columbia,
This seemed very strange TO the police
man, 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 sft them. The result
was that he discovered pieces of flesh
and bones and also two or three but
tons, a sailmaker's needle and watch
charm used for carrying n gold coin.
All these things were packed up and
shipped east to be examined and ana
lyzed by our specialists. Their report
was that the bones were those OF hui
man being.
in addition to this the policeman
traced Kings tracks TO a little lake
nearby. with the assistance Of another
policeman he cut a ditch ana drained
the lake Upon its bottom lay two
pairs of boots and other articles which
We're afterward proved to have been
sold to Hayward. When the case was
tried, brother OF Hayward was
brought out from England to identify
Some OF these articles, and the result
OF the whole was that King was con-
vlcted and hung.
"a curious statement was made at
this trial. concluded Col. White. we
had proven that the murder was COM
mitted on September rs. away out there
on the banks of the Lesser Slave lake.
At the trial II was stated under oath