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Show I Follow Murderers' Trail Detective el the Northwest Spend Months la Tireless Search of Men VTIio Hid Coov milted Crimen la the Yukon, Jllere la a story of tlie most remarkable remark-able pollre Aire In the world a slnry of the delerttTf-e of tha llrlllsh North wort of tha men ho fnrret out the sourdor inystorlis of th tangled wild-erneae wild-erneae of tho Yukon. In Ih territorial Jail of the Klondike t Iiawson Ma two mm, whom the wonderful dti-Uvea of the Northwest harre with the miinl'T of four men In the rumoto wlldi-rni-as of the Yukon telley, Their names aro Victor Fournler and Kditard I,l.vlle Tha miinlnri t H Blare on a Utile Inland In the llrlll.h Yukon. Leon Bouthlli'lle. J ih Our Dean- test "Pst." Fournler. oln and Alhhonse Coiialnntln were alaln by Foiirnlor. ly I.Ih'IIo or hjr kotn. Down lii'low Imwson, on tlio American side, (llllii-rt pufors w enot to death hy l.abi'lle, aironllni to lie stain of KournU-r. Immediately after Ihe murders became be-came known the most roniarkalile x Ilea force on the American continent, or perhnpa In the world, went In work. Via lor Wood IhhiiciI hli Instructions to William II. WVIeh. 0110 of the shrewdi-st and nmut etiierlenced tit tha diit'wtlve forre at hla romniand. These Inntrui lloni were lirlef. Itun Uila thing down " mil. I .Mujur Wo(l. To the Yukon police thli order menus "May with It until you know . ' Uie truth and plaie tlio tniin.-rcri un- --"--( ;-ili.,w f .-iolUM ihv. . .C'on.innin ul'oteii ji-nu TCI . j mii goaa ri... n rriouiimrn wmI the uiiiiaio of May. TM. continued tlio atory of hla Pa-vaon frlendn that Con-atantln Con-atantln waa hound for Vancouver, pertain per-tain for IJuelii-c. Fournler and l.nticllo were holh well known In the police. Tin y wore gmtillna house hoontors both at Daw-aon Daw-aon and Whlti-horao. Kvll aaaorla-tlona aaaorla-tlona and unsavory repututlona kept both under the eyn of Iho service. Then Welah found In I'eter Hook, Whttehorae Krncer, a man who sold amall qnanllty of provisions to a boat party and whn knew IkiIIi Fournler Four-nler and l.ahelle hy name and hy lllht And flu beat part of Hook's service to the raae waa hla poaltlve atateuott that I ahelln had relumed about July III to Whttehorae. To Itook Label lo said he waa aolng lo Atllu. lie bad evaded the police and hla move-menu move-menu were not of lorord. It waa now near the laat of July. Welah Impressing Hook the grocer Into hla service, crossed the mnuiilalua to Bkagway following the trail of La-belle. La-belle. On Aug. 1 three miles from Oidlvlo on tha banka of the Yukon, another body waa found. It, too, waa conveyed con-veyed to Dawaon. Nu nno rrcuKhlxcd It With the Infrrmatlon already In hand Major Wood and hla men at ence and Instinctively connected Ihla third body with thoao of llouthlletlo, Ileaudoln and Conntantln. It waa Dot the body of Kcurnter or I.alii'lle. Where were theyT Itelle waa, In all llkellood atlll alive, since he had pasnod throtiKh Whttehorae southward; Foiirnlur, un-leaa un-leaa murdered like the real, could at Kail throw light upon tha Crimea On Aug. 24 "1'etu" Fournler quietly William H. Welah. walked Into a Dawson gambling houae and began to play. Ho unfolded a email roll nt bills and bought hla hlpa. Presently he waa tapped on the abouldet. Vwo men In rlvlllan dot hoe and two pollcomon In uulforui wanted tn aco hlin. Fournler was surprised, tut started readily to accompany them. The bllla be had glvtm to the uealer were taken by the police. One of them, tiie outer wrapping of the roll, bore a heavy stain of rvd'llnh black. It waa blood. I . 1 ; t . Fournler went ouletly to the guard-houso. guard-houso. He proteaied that ho did not know what he waa wanted for; he had committed no offenae. and the Inqulnl-Hon Inqulnl-Hon of the police failed to move him to a damaging admission. Hut 'Tote" waa held. Meanwhile Welnh, the detective, had atrui k thn trail at Hksgway and was banting In It with the tenacity characteristic, of the man and hla training. I-abcllo had not dallied long In 8kagway. Wrlh followed hlrn to Vancouver II. C, and thence to Koattln. In Hoattle ret nnla of a local employment employ-ment bureau ahowed that he had been aent lo a logKlng cainn In the eaatern part of the county. Welsh and Itook went there. I.alx-llo had moved on. Then thn purauera began a systematic syste-matic search of the logKlng ramps. The trail waa followed to Hpokane, tl'onre to Nelson and Hland In llrlt-lh llrlt-lh riilumhla; hack acroas the International Inter-national boundary to Thompson'a Falla. thniugh Mlaaoula and llulte. lo Montana, to I'ocatello, Idaho, and to Cgden, Utah. Then camn Welah'a triumph. One Jomp from Ogden to Iho little town of Wadaworth, In Nevaita, and Eduard I abelle. quietly at work In tha camp uf a railroad contractor, waa taken Into the handa of tha rclentlesa and Tar-reachlng Yukon law. Doubly Identified Iden-tified by Welah and Hook, branded by both as a trlplo murderer, the captlva weakenod. lip admitted hla knowledge of the killing and made hla confession, confes-sion, blaming Fournler. He readily agreed to accotnpai y the doloctlva to Dawaon without tho formality of extradition. ex-tradition. The trio started on tha return re-turn trip. While In Hoattle. on hla way to Dawson Daw-son l.abello mucin what ha claimed as a full confi-aalon. Ho told of being be-ing at thn opposite end of tho Island from where tho party waa ramped and of hearing tlirou shots. Ho bad aaa-I aaa-I or tod Fournler'a Intention to kill tha othera anil began tn fear for hlmaelf. Ho remained away mnro than an hour and at length ventured Into camp about midnight. "1 crept up close and looked aronnd L--"B '.ut-JkM- I Ill ! for the men " aald I.abelle. "Fournler stood there alone. I had him covered with my rlllo, but waa badly frightened. fright-ened. Fournler apoke first, lie came toward me acting vary nervously and said: 'I can pay you that money now, Juat forgot Ihla. It'a all right.' 1 waa ao frightened I didn't know what I waa doing, but I took the money, 136, which ho banded to mo. That la where I made, my mistake." In relating his atnry of tha murder Fournler anld: "When we wore In Dawson this spring l-aliclto came to mo and aald. Tote (ha always called me I'ete), Ufa go lo Whltehorse.' Wo thought thero might he some games running there. Wo went There wore r.o games there. Then l.abello said wa would meet strnngcra and hustle them down the river. I aald, 'It'a tough, but I am with you.' Wa got a small boat and we met the throe follows. Wa agreed to Inka theni to Dawson for 16 each. Wo ramped at night. Every night l.abello said to me ho would kill tbom. "Wo ramped tha last nlcht on an Island below utewnrt. In tha morning 1 waa asleep. lie threw a piece of wood at me and I knew what It meant. I heard a shot. 1 was sure one waa dono for. Ho aald It waa a rabbit. Then he shot again. Then he Ored bark and shot tho big mnn (Houtb. lotte). He fired twice at him. I saw tha three bodies near the water, Wa searched the bodies and threw them In. Fournler admitted pawning tha watch of llouthlletto In Dawaon, and fctatcd that tho bloodstained notoa found on hltn at the time of hla ar-icst ar-icst wera given him by Ijibelle. The American authorities on tha lower Yukon found tha body of Gilbert L'ufora Juat where Fournler aald ha waa killed. The corpus was picked op Oct 1 and waa fully Identified at lagle. |