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I r S J i. i a a f 2 1 i C r p y K k JV It k i t S t dD 4 pj r I Ia l a n s i c 3 a v Royal Canadian i Mounted Police Lw Sergeant I Life o oi tt i 2 a ii Mete 4 Sergeant Thorne Thome of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is is i for the time being the British i Empire as he urges his dog A team on the thousand-mile thousand trip into the northern norther wastes carrying carrying carry carry- rt ing the confirmation df of dEthe the order directing the execution oni of the two two Eskimo Eskimo- murderers 1 i TIP UP P WHERE the trio aurora borea boreal's s dances on snow with the lean gaunt gaunt- timber wolves and where law is represented V rented by a blubber knife blubber knife or a a spear l VV V Sergeant Thorne Thome of that famous Canadian Cana- Cana Canai i z V dian frontier force the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is is carrying the law in inthe n r x the shape of a death warrant death warrant from the Ca Canadian ad n Department of of- Justice It pr provides vides for forthe the execution by ha hanging ging J of two Eskimos Aliko mi ak and Tata Tat- Tat a a Q Over r countless 1 miles v of of trackless 4 r waste and deserts of of snow a and nd ice ice 7 Serge Sergeant nt alo ig g with f his d. d dog g team te to to carry to to f far r. r away away W WV i V J V 3 t- t r F FL r L f. f 1 r F VI V I i L 3 i 3 Y i Herschell Island the most police post in Canada between the Mack V enzie delta and Beri Bering g Straits V V sated sated- on the very outpost of civilization the message of death for these two 1 J 1 MV KV 1 t Y At last the white mans man's law has climbed above the Arctic circle and two Eskimo ar are e to to pay the exand ex ex- extreme x trem e P penalty y for or their crimes Above is and below is is shown Ali Al i- i w komiak a seventeen seventeen- year seventeen year old boy who shot s Corporal Doak of the Royal Canadian t Mounted Police to death i 1 V V r t tW W 0 I Violated natives who have violated the the white whiteman's whiteman's mans man's law Thou not kill It will be the first time in m history that thata a death penalty has has been exacted by the the white mans man's law in the frozen northland Once before several years ago two Eskimos were convicted of murder and and sentenced to death but the sentence i of life im imprisonment Kvas vas later commuted to that t So Sergeant Thome Thorne is the 7 first first messenger of the law to invade the J frozen rozen north with papers demanding the death A death penalty One of the men meri who will pay the thelen ther r 1 penalty is actually but a len 1 youth of seventeen yet he has admitted shooting hooting all and killing R. R C. C CM bI r. r I P. P CorPoral Corporal Cor- Cor Doak as a that officer lay ay asleep in inI I his is bunk and then shooting hooting down I. I in cold J 4 SV 4 t. t blood Otto Binder a white trader of the the- Three River Coronation Gulf district when the trader came to call on the the dead corporal aged wom woman woman n sorceress of the tribe to which the two men belong is serving a sentence of one ye years year's rs r's imprisonment for her share in other Eskimo killings for one of which must pay the supreme penalty This part of the story goes back farther er than the killing of Corporal Doak however Both and were involved in an Eskimo feud and it was was was' to quell this and apprehend apprehend apprehend hend the culprits that Doak was sent north He investigated and arrested and was returning with him when the Eskimo shot him while he U slept Over a round trip of miles a a w Judge and other court officials traveled to hold the trial of and I and there in Herschell Is Island Island Island Is- Is land the men w were we're re tried and found guilty The sentence was death by hanging and the date was set for December December December De De- cember 7 7 but before the execution could take tak place confirmation must b be bo ob obtained ob ob- tai ta ed from the Department of Justice Sergeant Thorne Thome is on his way now with that confirmation w X THE HE world knows of the reputation of of V the Royal I Mounted Police and that they always get their man Sometimes Sometimes Some Some- times months are necessary sometimes years b but t Jt they y get et their man The double execution n will tako take place Decem December December De De- De- De cem cember 7 if Thorne can get ct his message through ugh in t time tune arid me a and d Thorne Thome wi will l not fail i 1 I AHe was was very casual about hout it when he bade his wife good good good-by bY on oh the Vancouver docks as he hest st started on th the first l leg g of his trip i back in Janu Janu- January January ary ary- ary he ary he remarked l Ss Sst t i 1 8 1 V I ar S 7 J JI I f I 1 I t vV v From Vancouver British Columbia all the way up to Herschell in the western Arctic Arctic Arctic Arc Arc- tic between the Mackenzie delta a and and- and d Bering Straits the thc most northerly police post in Canada Canada Canada Can- Can ada and the very very outer rim of civilization northward Sergeant Ser Ser- VyV t Jr y Thorne is his s geant is now making 1 J Z ii way way and and his goal a scaffold J V T f from which the intrepid law officer ceris is IS to hurl two convicted dJ x V r li I 4 i Eskimo murderers into eternity p j Fine weather and well well packed Packed sno snow t mean sixt sixty miles a day for the sturdy V dogs But dint blizzards and and drifts make f another story The long trait trail must wait 1 the fury of the howling Arctic winds s and inan man nian and dogs huddled in the shelter of a rough snow wall must wait in patience until the wind drops A few hours of this the most arduous V V Out White ite Man Mans s 's V ice tf s ye 2 f p 4 f li l I i tf t The wife of Sergeant Thorne is almost as familiar with the frozen north as her husband for she has bas spent several years years with him in out outland and posts posts' where she was wa the only white woman white woman for hundreds hurij hurl hun r j j and md hundreds of miles Landing at Seward on the Alaska C Coast st he took the train to Fairbanks in the interior on the line recently opened officially by the late President Preside nt t I Harding arding He jogged over the trail to Rampart House and old Fort Yukon in ina a stage coach vaguely reminiscent cent of L Bret rot Hatte Halte days in California At Fort Yukon the real danger began Experienced that he is who V knows every mood of the Arctic in both wint winter r and summer Thome Thonie is i's traveling light At Fort YUkOn Yukon Yukon-he Yuk n. n he outfitted his six-dog six team for the fhe das dash i across the the tho snows snows t to Herschell From the time when his his' ten-foot ten whip lash cracked ed its farewell to the little handful of white men and breeds at at Fort Y lson until ll he lie sights the log shacks of Aklavik in inthe inthe inthe the Mackenzie delta he will will- will meet meat no oth other l' l human being v i 1 Already the ice floes flom roar a and ld grind gin l lin in th the grim g im old Arctic Ocean arid and d pound nd the filled st stout oil Tilled hull hull of of the Iri last ti of the seasons season's San Francisco whaling s 's schooners hooner as ns it heads through Bering ing Straits Straits' for the the lazy and sun sun kissed Pacific rollers that will bear Its Its' Hs' Hs cre crew v to the delights of the thc waterfront wate front of of or San Francisco harbor Alrea Already y there is waist snow waist deep covering the scant A Arc Arctic c- c snow I tic tion vegetation vegetation- 4 Arid into this white cE gocs- gocs Arid I Ji t Ledger J f Public 1 b by t I s r C I Thorne Thorn his six sir six husky dogs straining straining straining strain strain- ing at the rawhide lawhide sled tugs and his hig snowshoes crunching into the frozen crust of v sno snow of of virgin whiteness un un- un- un trodden by allY any human foot but his The round trip by dog gog sled will be more than thana a t thousand miles and Thorne will be alone with his dogs under the magnetic light of the northern skies for virtually ev every ry mile of the way He He is conserving space for eve every y pound added to to his load will mean menn that much more more for his already overtaxed overtax d dogs dogs' the dogs the an animals that he has staked his life on to get h m through the barren wastes of snow sno and nd ice Frozen fish for for the dogs concentrated foods for himself his rifle for the chance shot hot at such game as he may ay fl flush ush in his in-his his hasty progress a a sl sleeping bag an and a pair of f thick blankets How long he will be be on 1 his lonely t trip p no noman mari knows vs Six week weeks week at the least will be required to make malee th the journey jour- jour hey ney ey and during this time he must bu buck buk k the Arctic s solitudes 1 tudes alone The frozen water courses of 01 the Yukon and PorcuPine Porcu Porcupine Porcupine Porcu- Porcu pine Ri e Rivers s will wil echo his cry of Mush l Mush as he urges husky dogs on V and th the time on on l the trip will depend entirely o on tl the snow weather n snow conditions t V n VV V 1 2 toil of the Arctic and the hardiest is exhausted A frozen fish j sh for each of the fagged dogs then the depths of the sleeping bag and utter oblivion until morning The open sky is his tent with the fitful Northern Lights glowing like lustrous hangings of silk an and the blazing stars wheeling through the velvety sp spaces ces wh while the plaint of the timber wolf and the coyote from the underbrush mingle with the whimpering of the dogs to fall on ears keen only for the unusual sound that may mean the stealthy approach of some hidden danger Weary from the days day's the dogs are even too tired to fight With th the faint streak of da dawn drifting over the bleak land of whiteness and he and his six dogs will be on th their ir w way again Day after day they will battle against the driving elements of th the frozen North until the lea le dog picks up up the scent of human beings as the sergeant sergeant ser- ser geant geant- and geant and his outfit near the huts of AIda Aklavik vik V V IT T IS impossible IS-impossible for one who has never been in the Northland to realize the difficulties of administering justice justic in the Arctic Judge Lucien Dubuc who r recently re- re completed a round trip of miles to Herschell Island to hold the trial of and has hasold old Fold of of some of the difficulties He advocates the substitution of a trial by bya a commission of three judges fudges instead of the jury system because of the difficulty of obtaining enough men to serve on a jury bf f only six only six men as is the law for forthe forthe forthe the Arctic Counsel and jury have to live in in very intimate contact and V naturally get to fo be oh on on very friendly terms All the community discusses the case ease with the jury and th the result is that before the trial tria opinions for or against the accused based on sentiment sym sym- sympathy pathy pathy-or pathy or some other emotional appeal are easily formed Trials have to be be held in o way the way the places and witnesses witnesses wit wit- it- it nesses and jurymen must be brought i 1 sometimes thousands of miles Judge Judg Dubuc told of one one case se where a witness traveled some miles and had to come come three months in advance of the trial over oer tl the e ice or not get there at all The usual fee of fifteen cents a a. amile mile would hardly y h have ve pa paid d for his dogs' dogs food 0 On n through the waste of the Arctic speeds S Sergeant Thorne with a gallows as s his goal and the t e honor of hanging the I first fir st Eskimo i in the Arctic region Everything is in readiness The gallows has been constructed Judge Dubuc V tand and his party part carried the sawed lumber with t them em when th they went to hold the trial Sergeant Thorne Thome will furnish the final link in the chain of justice when he arrives with the Department of Justice Justice Justice Jus Jus- tice confirmation All that will m be necessary necessary will be for the sergeant to cond conduct lct the tile h heuing i ng and thus co complete the Anal ft l act in this Arctic tragedy 1 l f. f r |