Show THE OGDEN STANDARD EXAMINER — SUNDAY MORNING JANUARY 3 1937 I ' gay n guy '1 0 ®B°©ua to throw another line They caught it on the schooner fastened it and for 14 hour watched it strain and heave in weather which became to® By James Monlagnes -- Mounties were killed 'getting their VpOUR naan during ihe past year J-f- is masked young men attempted to rob The owners in rural Manitoba with revolver! resisted were hit on the head old car an drove who away b by the robbers halted by a A week later the robbers were Mountie and a special provincial constable for driving without a license They were told to for report to the police station the next day' license On checking up the Mountie found the car to answer the description of the one in which the three masked robbers had made their getand away He took the special constable along set out on the trail of the unlicensed car fhree days later a farmer found the bodies of the Mountie and the special constahle in a ditch riddled with bullets Their car was miss- THREE 2 O I ing he police car with its Manitoba license was reported by a garage attendant outside Calgary Alberta some days later alter he had heard a' radio broadcast of the description of the car its (license number and its three occupants He said it was beaded towards Banff The Mountie detachment there was notified From Calgary and Banff Mounties came in fast cruisers over mountainous highways Ihe tliree men ’were sighted some distance from V I I Banff They opened fire or the Mounties when ordered to stop Two constables were hit The police fired back One man in the car was seen' to recoil the 'other two jumped out scrambled into the bush alongside the road The Mounties died that night in the hospital the bandit was found dead b the car The next day a posse o! Mounties and civilians scoured the mountain sides for the two killers They located them behind a boulder mountain slope Both were hit on a tree-cla- d arrested and rushed to the Banff hospital There they died To Assistant Commissioner Thomas Dann in charge of D Division based at Wbnipeg came a report last November that Mrs Julia Pawluk wife of John Pawluk a fanner was missing The Mounties took up the search but I found no trace of ber Months l?tei when every other due had been bvestigated a report came in to Dann that an old farmer living in a shack only 100 yards from the Pawluk bouse had been found dead presumably from suicide The old farmer George Bulega had been on intimate terms with the missing woman said neighborhood gossip He was found lying across his bed a shotgun at his tide a string tied to - the trigger and then looped over his right foot The shots which had killed him however could not have been fired by himself police ballistic experts agreed Besides that the 'gun and the cartridge found in Bulega's body did not tally Looking for a solution jto the murder o the old farmer the Mountie! again visited John ' Pawluk’s farm The winter’s snow was piled high all over the farm yard But the Mounties dug jThey found Julia Pawluk’s body buried under an old manure pile a bullet in her bead Pawluk at the time was in jail because as an alien he had no right to own a firearm He had a 22 caliber rifle The bullet found in his wife’s head was a 22 bullet Pawluk confessed He was drunk when he shot her for having immoral relations with other men But Bulega was reported found dead while Pawluk was in jail Thomas Dann is still working on that case I f O ‘ but these police who "always get their man" are doing lots of jobs they never heard of in tfje old days — and the past year saw foui troopers killed in action ‘ Q 1 Few of them are really mounted now When the bailiff came to evict Farmer David S Knox near Rosebud Alberta Knox drew’ a gun That igought two Mounties with a summons Knox saw them first Corporal M Moriarty climbed out of the Mountie patrol car and opened the farm gate so that Constable A R Allen could drive the car through As he closed the gate a shot rang out Moriarty fell to the ground dead Constable Allen jumped out of the car used it as a cover and fired in the direction of the farmhouse from which the shot must hav come ' fire was returned The duel kept up some while Allen gradually crawled to minutes Moriarty to see how badly he was wounded When he found the corporal dead he climbed into the far headed for the nearest telephone and called for reinforcements They came surroflnded the farm drove up to the house and found it deserted Suddenly from high up in the granary a shot rang out The Mounties dove for cover returned the fire Again a duel was on The shots from the granary ceased As the Mounties started for the granary the rifle spoke again from the ground level somewhere between the granary and the haystack Constable R Cm Fenn drove his car full speed for the location of that last shot When he had passed there was David Knox remember lying on the ground Fenn did not showed hitting him’ with the car Examination i Knox had committed suicide o t ' ( 1 year the Mounties become more ed more scientific take on more duties bul continue to get their men The latest IjWERY With their 27 fast cruisers and patrol lats as well as planes of the Royal Canadian Air Force the Mounties are making rum running an expensive business The rum runners have had to change from sailing vessels to fast motor ships equipped with short wave radio transmitters They utilize portable short wave radio ’equipment in automobiles on shore to advise the ' ' vessel when to land its cargo -- ' i Mounties Jast report of the IN the mentioned the rum runner Lipari The Mounties learned it was to make a landing one night in one of the many bays off Nova Scotia They let the Lipari come in to the shelter of the bay while their patrol boat Guardian came out to guard the entrance of the bay Then the Mounties ordered the Lipari to stand by The rum runner caught well within limit started to put on speed the 1 not as fast gave chase but Guardian The kept the Lipari in the bay The Guardian fired four shots iThe skipper of the runp runner changed his mind He hove to He nad 280 kegs of rum and 39 cases of whiskey on board when the Mounties came alongside between There has been close the Mounties and the United States Coast Guard Since the report was issued it has been decided that a Mountie will ship with each U S coast guard cutter likely to give cnase in Canadian waters and will help bring in more smugglers the rum runner not being able to escape on the plea he was outside U S sea-goi- ng 4 report of Commissioner Major C e n e r a I' Sir James H MacBrien includes the decision that the Mountjcs are no longer going to rely on outside scientific crime specialists but are going to trab their own men to that end A scientific laboratory is being established at the new headquarters of the force in Ottawa officers are to be trained in the use of special photographic equipment standardized investigators kits are to be supplied to all divisions in the near future a legal adviser is to be stationed at Ottawa headquarters full time Such has been the success of scientific crime hunting in recent years on cases in the heavily populated areas of the Dominion where the Mounties now have charge that the force is going scientific in a big way A vision of the Mounties of the future is While patrolling off PictJu Nova Scotia seen in ’the statement that horsemanship is no the Mountie cruiser Baroff sighted a fishing longer tobe taught all recruits Once a man’s The weather was vessel drifting helplessly experience as a rider was a help b getting into rough but the cruiser came near enough to the force Today there are only 226 horses in throw a line to the fishing vessel Her crew the force and a special Mounted Section has yelled of drifting for three days of losing tlieir been established during the past year (with a rudder in dirty weather The Baroff started number of troops of 20 men stationed at pulling towards Pictou strategic points throughout Canada The line broke The going was rough With The mounted Mounties are to be used princareful steering the Baroff came near enough cipally for the control and dispersal of mobs The (wfious red coats had plenty of such cases to hanf f dle during the past year with labor trouble hunger I marches jand unemployed demonstrations 7" The Mounties now handling all police work in Canada except in cities and srin the provinces of Ontario Quebec and British Columbia have bad to face new conditions which they never encountered in the day when they patrolled only the plains and far north The Mounties took to the sea about five years ago when rum runners still opThe Mounties still patrol the top of the world schooners erated sailing Constable Paddy Hamilton left the world’s most Since then they have become northern policeman Is stationed on Ellesmere Island 800 miles from the North Pole good sailors 2-m- ile j j - j J £ hourly worse But the Mounties have become efficient at saving lives at sea as well as chasing rum runners They brought the schooner safely into Pictou ' f ’ most of the WHILE 2700 ' members of the force police Canada’s settled districts there are still 100 who live at the top ' of the world From the most northern police post on earth Craig Harbour Ellesmere Island 800 miles south of the North Foie Corporal Kearney Constable Hamilton and Eskimo Mulla left lor Dundas Harbour Devon Island 200 miles to the south Ordinarily they would have traveled in a straight line ice conditions making the trek over solid ice But last year there was way had much open wateT and a round-aboto be found At one point a narrow ice ledge was the only route open For fifteen miles the ledge stretched ahead here 20 feet wide there only three feet wide Below on on? side stretched open water filled with floating ice pans On the other side steep cliffs towered 800 feet above The patrol with two komitiks native sleds) 26 dogs and a 1 4foot ice boat pushed slowly along the ledge for five miles Then the ledge ended It had broken off Farther along it continued They tied the dogs up so they could not move then lowered themselves to the ice below crossed its huge jagged "moving lumps clambered up the continuation of the ledge and explored on foot for miles ahead The farther they went the worse the going became They turned around went back to their sleds and dogs retraced those dangerous five miles They went on with their journey e after trying out five glaciers over-- a route and finding them all impassable ut ’ p 4 50-mil- i States J change their field of from Buffalo operations frequently Stolen cars were coming into Canada As tourists the thieves brought the cars via Detroit and Windsor to the Dominion cars Canadian purchasers of second-han- d had bought were questioned in eight cases they unaware were “tourists” from They their cars that the cars were stolen The Mounties located “tourists” and the courts gave d the tourthem the maximum penalty Now bona-fid- e side States United the ists and cbmmuters from find a more careful watch On the western international boundary there were complaints of Canadian butter being smughad gled into the United States The Mounties a hunch Since no Canadian butter cartons had been found on the American side and since butter was1 a perishable product that bad to be moved fasti' they watched the traffic into Can-- 1 ada and eventually found a “commuter” who hid 22400 American butter cartons stowed in the back of the car The butter could be taken In American cartons it out little1 at a time could not be identified as smuggled butter once it crossed the border the to COME back the Mounties Canada-Unite- d self-style- f P i ii i i union: oiiDiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiii'" |