Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-27

days or weeks before. III they are
stili in the hotel The register shows
the name OF every person in the house:
and | may say that We know about
where every man in the territory sleeps
every night.
I'VE get reports OF all the passengers
who go up and down the river, and
from every telegraph station they pass
on the way. When a steamer leaves
White Horse for Dawson. the purser
hands In the names OF his passengers
and they are telegraphed here. II any
one gets off on the way his name is
tcleBraphed. and we check UP the list
when the boats come in. II man
starts out in a canoe to go up or down
the river it is reported. and IL three
men start out and one is missing. we
can see this from the difference In
the report on that canoe a. it passes
the next telegraph station. The police
also patrol the country from their
various stations. They send In re-
ports OF just who come in and who 20
out OF their respective districts, and
also what theY arc doing while they
are there"
ONLY SEVEN IN JAZZ.
at THE PRESENT TINE
Give me some idea Of the amount OF
crime committed in your territory?'
our record is fairly good have
here the Jail report for the past year.
which includes tho pcnitentiary as
we'll. The total number confined dur
ing that time was eiEhty-two and OF
these seventy-four were males and
eight were females. Three OF the
ma Les were insane. Our daily aver
age of persons in jail last year was
less than nine. and the most We had
on any ono day was twelve This is
for country as large as France. and
for a population largely made up OF
.frontiersm.n and miners"
How many have you in Jail at
Present."
and two are women. who are serving
: year for picking the pockets OF men
who were in state OF into1ication.
' No Of the others arc sneak thieves,
one uho is in for assault and another
charged with having attempted muir
dor while drunk. Indeed, We have 30
few bad characters under arrest that
II is difficult 10 keep our barracks in
order and the lawn properly moved.
We make the prisoners work The
two women do hard labor in the laun-
dry. and we are sure OF that much
help in our washing for the rest OF
the year
Have YOU many murders in the
Kiondike7'
The records show that we have
had altogether only fourteen since
gold was discovered. and that the muir
dercrs we're all hanged No. am mis-
taken; they were all hanged but one.
He shot. Tina, covers period
back 10 1895.
Some OF the murder stories OF this
part of the world interesting.
continued the major. Take. for in
stance, one that IS said to have oc
currcd in Alaska. The murdered man
was miner, and he was killed by An
Indian at tie, close OF the season when
the miners were just about to leave
until next year. They had not time TO
follow the Indian and arrest him but
The! went TO the chief and told him
that ne must catch the murderer and
have him ready for them when they
tended TO hang him. When aprinE
came they went TO the chief and de-
manded tho man. lie replied:
Me got him all right. You come
sec. iir ihcreupon took them 10 the
back nf the camp and showed them
dead lndi.u frozen in a large block
Of ice As they looked the chief con-
;inued: we go; him last fall. Wo
know YOU Kill him in spring. 80 va
shoot him in fall. What use feed him
al winter"
MURDERER QUICKLY
TRIED AND HUNG.
wv. had case some time ago OF
miner who inverted two young men
with money 10 come from Seattle to
White Horse. and 60 with him in
canoe 200 miles down the Yukon. There
they stopped a; bend in the river,
from where they were TO make their
way inland to sold prospect the
miner had located AS they camped,
the miner had one OF the men build
a fire. while nc took the other off with
him 10 hunt game Within short
lime The man at the camp heard shot
and later the miner came in and said
they had killed bear about mile
away, and they wanted the man at the
camp to go with him TO carry in the
bear-meat. The two then started off
together. the miner walking behind.
| The stranger began to think that all
was not right. He turned his head
quickly. and found that the miner had
raised hts rife and had drawn bead
on him. AS he rushed TO grab the gun
IT Went off and shot him through the
cheek The stranger then grappled
with the miner and succeeded in get
ting the gun. He ran away into the
bushes and finally got to the boat and
came to Dawson. He notified the police
and we kept watch on the river.
Within few days the old miner came
noa:inE down in a bot. Our men fol-
lowed him and put him under arrest
We then went back 20 the cami and
found the body OF the man who had
started out TO hunt bear. 1t had been
the minera intention to deouy the
second man to the place and shoot him
He wanted the two men together, so
that he could drag their bodies more
easily TO the river and sink them. The
murderer was tried in month and
hung two months later"
DO you ever have lynchinss OF hold
ups?"
II have never heard Of any in the
! Yukon said Major Noodle, and We
! had none in Southern Canada when the
Canadian Pacific railroad was under
going construction. although there
were frequent hold-ups on the trains
OF the United States just across the
border We had now and then a man
held up in the mountains away from
the railroad. but not many. / remem-
ber one in which a highwayman held
up man and a woman who were rid
Ing OH horseback through the hills. He
covered them with his revolver and
ordered the man to dsmount. The
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