Show HACKED INTO BITS I I I MANGLED AND MUTILATED REMAINS RE-MAINS OF AN OFFICER FOUND He Had Been Missing Since Saturday Body Pound Buried Near Steves ton B C I Vancouver B C April 1i1he man gled and mutilated remains of Alexander Alexan-der Main Chief of Police of Steveston were found this afternoon In a hastily nado grave near l cluster of Chinese shacks two miles from Steveston Main lad been missing since Saturday when he went to one of the Chinese cabins to search for some missing tools beloved be-loved to have been stolen He was accompanied ac-companied Ly his dog and neither man 101 dog was seen from Saturday until this afternoon when a rancher named 1 Trltes u member of one of many searching parties noticed borne fresh turned earth Poking with his stick he felt some resistance and hastily removing re-moving the earth a most gruesome spectacle was revealed Mains head had been severed from the body his arms and legs broken in several places and the trunk hewed and hacked Into small bits In tho grave with his master mas-ter was the body of the little dog killed 10 that he would not carry news oC the crime Excitement in Steveston over the ghastly find Is l Intense The town Is in in uproar tonight When Main was llrst missed there was a general feeling that ho might have died suddenly as he WItS known to suffer from an ailment ment of the heart rwo Chinese In whose shack were found the stolen tools arc now under arrest charged with the murder They arc market gardeners their names beIng be-ing Ah Quon and Jim Chung The thlid occunant of the hit has fled and cannot can-not bo found Main was seen entering this shack last Saturday and It Is supposed the cowardly Chinese first stabbed him In the back and then struck him with 0 mattock Main was a large powerful man and there aie evidences of a fearful fear-ful struggle Stoveston Is D fishing village where arc located thirty canneries and during the canning season there Is n heating population of 5000 or COOO Chinese Indians In-dians and Japanese To preserve order Main In the summer has a dozen deputies dep-uties and hence his title of Chief of ulps Police which he had held for the past three years |