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Show der is murder in the Jurisdiction of the royal mounted, whose members are indifferent to distance or time. The surviving murderers were rounded up In a log jail. By radio word was flashed southward to Edmonton, Canada. Judge Dubuc of the Alberta courts made a 35oo-mile round trip Into the Far North, presided pre-sided over the trials, passed sentences. In making in: trip his conveyances Included train, motorboat, steamboat, scow and canoe. At pne point In the Journey machinery eclipsed romance while his boat was portaged ten miles by auto tractor. When the long arm of the law reaches out, grabs criminals and sends a judge 35oo miles to try them in court, we realize how small the world has become for the individual criminal. The law now blankets nearly every part of 4he earth as tar as the Individual lawbreaker, is concerned. i! i i I The Long Arm I I i ...i w ; IN THE Far North a Jealous white fur trader r j U killed an Eskimo woman who preferred the r, 5 j affections of an Eskimo man of her tribe. ImJ ' : I ;! Th's Eskimo man shifted his love to mar-Hi mar-Hi j ricJ Eskimo woman and killed her husband X'il 1 with his srear so he could marry the widow. 1 i :::!' lhis s,arted bIood feud Tk- fiul reckon-;?t reckon-;?t j showed seven killings the white trader, ::;; royal mounted corporal, three Eskimo men,1 ji,, ; , :::; an Eskimo woman and an Eskimo child. The ;i "'.I no,e affafr was the most bloodcurdling, ' .' Ii:! melodramatic crime wave In arctic history, rv' ! h "I: " outmovled the movies, the "color" Includ-fi Includ-fi ' I:" H a band of strangers led by an Indian ;r 'sorceress. Truth Is stranj-er than the movies. A . ; Tni Eskimo crime wave was stajsd be-' Li.'.; jond the outskirts of civilization. But mur-1 |