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Show ENDSRRET Northwest Mounted Police Hold to Slogan of Never j Losing Their Man. ESKIMO SHOOTS TWO FOR WOMAN HE LOVES Blizzards and Wilderness Are Nothing to Hardy Members of Force. N. E. A. Staff Correspondent. WINNIPEG. June 5. The Royal Northwest Mounted police proudly boast that there is no place In the Canadian northwest, no matter how remote lUbe from civilization, where law may be violated with impunity. And today as backing for that claim an Eskimo, who killed two of his fellow tribesmen, and an Indian, who murdered his cousin In the Barren Bar-ren Lands df the north, sit In cells at Dauphini Manitoba, awaiting trial. Sergeant W. O. Douglas of the famous fa-mous scarlet-coated force, who walked and ran with a dog team" more than 2000 miles to arrest tho Eskimo and take him to the nearest court, and Sergeant Ser-geant B. H. L. Thompson, who traveled trav-eled 500 miles in the same manner to get the Indian, havo just arrived in Winnipeg. Story of Murdpr. In Dauphin court house, where Ouangwak, the Eskimo, and James Wastaslcootr the Indian,, were bound ever for trial, tho stories of the mur-deVa mur-deVa and-ths-long.o.bnses-came- out- - The Eskimo shot his two victims because be-cause ho wanted the wife of one of tho men. Undor tho Eskimo code of morals, ho could not havo her so long as tho husband was living. His second victim was slain as a measure of precaution; he was the husband's brother and Ouangwak surmised he would try to avenge the murder. Ouangwak freely confesses that he shot Angalookyouak through the head while ho slept and that he killed the brother, 'Alccnnilok, by shooting him through tho breast. Ho Is particularly proud of the way In which ho cowed tho entire tribe. After the murders, he took Anga-lookyouak's Anga-lookyouak's wlfo to his own igloo and. with rlflo In hand, challenged any or all members of the tribe who desired to dispute his possession of tho woman or tho manner In which he had won her, to step forward and bo shot. It made hltn the hero of the tribe. The killing occurred last August at Lake Yathkyed, known to the natives as Shekolookyouak, about 900 miles straight north of Winnipeg. Sergeant Douglas, who is officer in charge of the mounted police at Fullerton, the farthest north polico post on Hudson bay, received the news in December. Travelers had brought back news of the "Terrible Lover's" killings. Polico Sets Out. Douglas set out for Lake Yathkyed on Dec. 19, arriving there and making mak-ing tho arrest Feb. 9. Ouangwak offered no resistance. With Ida prisoner and the woman, Tho officer and Ouangwak walked and ran all tho way, but Cunuolt, tho heroine of the tragic romance, who weighed 1200 pounds, had to be hauled on the dogaled. "I had to take her to relatives at Churchill," Douglas explained. "She would have died at tho camp. It Is the Eskimo custom to allow widows and others, who havo no one to look after them, to starve." Douglas and the Eskimo then Went down tho coast of tho bay In 'JS days, facing a blizzard most of tho way and frequently freezing their faces, feet ana hands. It was often DO degrees below zero. At Poit Nelson, while resting be-foro be-foro starting on tho last lap of their long Journey, thoy woro Joined by Sergeant Ser-geant Thompson and tho Indian, Srnstaslcoot, whom ho had chased for four days. Takes Long: Trip. According to othor Indians, Was-taslcoot Was-taslcoot had killed his cousin by shooting shoot-ing him In the back, after a quarrel over traps. Thompson hoard tho news within two dayB, Tho Indian, a lad of 17, had fled into tho brush, but his trail through the snow was easy to follow fol-low and, like tho Eskimo, ho made no attempt to resist when tho "mountio" walked Into camp, With their prisoners and soveral Indian In-dian witnesses to tho Wastuslcoot murder, Douglas and Thompson traveled trav-eled 500 miles by dog-sled through a raging storm, with tho tomporaturo nover higher than X0 bolow zero, to Kettle river, ,thu end of tho stoel on the Hudson Bay railway. Thero they left tholr dogs and oleds and boarded handcars, Thoy finally got a train, the "Muskeg Spoolal," which niakus the trip from Tho Pas to Mllo 214 onco a week, weather permitting, per-mitting, Whop taken to Dauphin tho Eskimo Eski-mo was overwhelmed by whlto man's houses, autos and such, He told his captor that ho never wanted to return to ho Barron Lands, Asked whether ho would not miss the woman, for wIiobo Jove, ho had killed two men, ho indicated that ho liked, tho "skln..y" white women batter; bat-ter; ho had never boforo soon a woman who weighed loss than 175 pounds, Wolh tliH Eskimo and thu Indian will be tried tor murder joxl a.u.t,u,juu |