Show Men of o the e d dby by Captain G. G Nightingale Elliott CopTI Copyright ht BATTLE RATTLE AT McDONALDS McDONALD'S F FARM How OW Tour four our youthful Chicago crimInals criminals criminals crim- crim started out to give Canada a n few thrills by staging a cross cross- country crime wage and how these conceited young punks finished up as riddled corpses inside of two weeks makes one of the best police stories In years They had had such a Ion long and uninterrupted career career career ca- ca ca ca- reer in their old home town that they thought th that t criminal freedom was vas plentiful everywhere else Equipped with pistols and ammunition ammunition tion several bottles of hair oil on a afew afew afew few shirts and a fine big shiny automobile that had a powerful engine engine engine en en- gine under its hood the squad setout set setout setout out for or the Dominion Sneaking into Sask Saskatchewan unobserved the first act was to get the right sort of li license 11 cense plates This done and traveling traveling traveling trav trav- eling mostly at night they headed northward and were soon in the heart of the prairie country Here their projected crime wave was held up a bit for they took in too much alkali water and were quite ill for several d days Two of them almost died it was later learned However a day or so later they were in the he west central part of the province and had holed up to get their bearings and to see what could be done thereabouts inthe In Inthe Inthe the way of pulling a profitable job They finally discovered something ng that looked promising and sat down downto to do a bit of planning Meanwhile a lone member of the theROY ROY Royal Canadian Mounted Police was fighting his way along a slippery buffalo trail in an old crate of a n acar acar car that happened to be one of the three in the whole region And as ashe ashe he slipped side-slipped and lurched along II he saw the dim lights of oil lamps burning in the homestead cabins of I the Smiths the Joneses and the Browns I Further on a bit he would pass the MacDonald homestead in which was kept the only safe and strong box In all the vast prairie territory Hector Hector Hector Hec Hec- tor MacDonald which Isn't his real name of course was a polished cultured gentleman in whom scores of outlying settlers placed full and complete trust to the extent that they deposited their valuables without without without with with- out charge in the great big old old- fashioned safe And as the lone loneMan loneMan loneMan Man of the Mounted passed he noticed noticed noticed no no- the MacDonald home In total darkness and decided to investigate Moving cautiously over o to the homesteaders homesteader's cottage he peeked Into a window to discover four men hovering over and about the great b big g safe Two were standing upright upright upright up up- right holding flashlights and the theother theother theother other two were busy with the knob and dial As the the- Mounted Policeman Policeman Policeman Police Police- man backed away from the window however one of the two flashlight- flashlight holders spotted him and at once fired a bullet at his head Being an anold anold old timer he had a bag of tricks ready at hand so he crumpled up dropped to the ground and lay still Out came the safecrackers and a moment later they were standing around the body of the dead Mount Mount- ie That is three of them were for their expert was still working on the safe Well Wen dats dat's one of em outa der derway derway way by cripes said one Y h Well We'll rub em out like dis dig as we the go along said an- an an an- other No we the wont won't do of der kind spoke the third Well do no killin we hev hey ter They hang fer a killin up here Taint like ol of Chi an there aint no ky up here ter help of a jam Meanwhile the lad inside worked feverishly but unsuccessfully on the safe and the three began discuss discuss- discussing discussing ing big ways and means of hiding the policeman's body And then when the crooks were absolutely of off guard the lone Man of the Mounted moved ever so careful carefully y until his gun hand was In the clear In that split sec ond sec the crooks saw him moving and pulled their guns Two of ot them fired tired point blank but the M Man Manof of the tile Mounted was faster in spite spites of the fact that he was the last to draw He fired three times and hit each one of the three in the forehead The safecracker inside knowing that their plans had gone gore haywire lit out through the ens east cast door and disappeared into the Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Sas Sas- ka gloom Leaving the dead where they lay Jay the lone Man of the Mounted se set setout setout t out after the fourth and after hours hour of searching finally gave it up A Afew Afew few days ays later the safe cracker cornered by another Man of th the Mounted tried to shoot his way out and lost The Man of the Mounted fired once while the safe-cracker safe fired four tour times and died No on one C can say they didn't get a break for lor the Men Mien of the Mounted diva draw their weapons only after the criminal criminal crimi crimi- nal real has drawn his At any rate these poor misguided lads had been bee I Ion on Canadian soil soU less than a fortnight fort night and were now dead |