Show lin TIRELESS SEARCH r T rc T I 1 V E FOLLOW trail TRAIL OF SUSPECTED MURDERER perpetrators of crime in the far aff off yukon valley run to earth after a long chass chase each man now says saya the other did the killing here its is a story of the most remarkable police lorce force in the world a story of the detectives of the british north west vest of the men inen who ferret out the murder mysteries of the tangled wilderness of the yukon in tho the territorial jail ortho of the klondike at dawson lie two men whom tile the wonderful detectives of tile the northwest charge with the minder of four men in the remote wilderness of the yukon valley alley N their names are victor fournier and eduard labelle the murders took place on a little island in the british yukon leon bouthilette joseph guy beau ax A ia mr ut a M 41 4 1 4 1 k pete Fou fournier riller doin and alphonse constant constantin Conn in were slain by fournier bournier by labello labelle d or by both down below dawson on the Ame america side gilbert defors dut ors av wrye shot to death by labelle ac according accordia cordin tz to the state of Four fournier filer immediately after the murders became known the most remarkable police force on the american continent 0 or r perhaps in the world went to work major wood issued his instructions to william H welsh one of the shrewdest and most experienced of bf the detective force at his command these instructions were brief run this thing down said major wood to the yukon police this order means stay with it until yu you know the truth and place the murderers under arrest at whitehorse orso welsh found that constantin had arrived from dawson and gone across the moi mortal bains ns about the middle of may this confirmed the story of his dawson davson frie friends ads that con stanten was bound for vancouver couver per kaps for quebec fournier and labolle labelle were both well known to the police they were gambling house boosters boasters bo both at dawson and whitehorse evil associations and unsavory reputations kept T both under the eye of the service I 1 then welsh found in ill peter rook a whitehorse grocer a man who sold a small quantity of provisions to in n boat party and who knew both fournier and labelle by name and by sit sight and the best part of rooks C service ervice to the case w was as his positive si statement that labelle had returned about july IG 16 to whitehorse to rook labelle said lie he was going t to atlin ile ho hall had evaded the police and lihi movements woe were not ot of i record ecord it was now near tile the last of july welsh impressing rook the grocer into his service crossed tile the mountains li to skagway way me uail triai u ail or jd ia bolle belle on oil aug auta I 1 miles f from 0 o r ogilvia or op tho banks of the yukon on another body was vial found it too was conveyed to dawson no one onel recognized ii IE with the information 1 already in liand hand ma ir woodald jooa Woo dand abild his men man at once and instinctively connected this third body with those oi of bouthilette beaudoin Bc audoin and constantin it if was not tho body of fournier orLa or labolle beIle where were they labolle labelle was in all likel likelihood likelio lood od still alive since lie he had passed through whitehorse Whit chorse se southward un 00 william 11 1 1 W 0 1 sh loss less murdered like tho the rest could at IC least SL throw light upon the crimes on aug 1 24 14 1 pete Fou quietly balked into a dawson house and i began egan to td play he unfolded a small roll of bills and bought his chips presently lie he was tapped on the shoulder two men ill civil hl and two police policemen nien in iii uni uniform forni wanted to seelem see him fournier was surprised but start started iod read readily ily to accod finzi y thorn amin the bills he had given ivan tn 0 tie brior orI or r vere taken by the police 0 fiig of heni chem the outer pip 0 of tile the loia b I 1 g r teavy heavy stain of lea ish dish bluch black it wat asu 2 blood fournier went to tn the in guardhouse ti ard lie he protested that thai lie he did not lot know what whal lie lic was wanted for lie had I 1 committed no mo offense ind and thi the ino inquisition ukal i ot of the police failed to lo move him to t Q a damaging 1 1 admission adt 1 pete was held meanwhile welsh the detective had struck the avail at skagway and was vas hanging to it with the ton tenacity ar ity characteristic of tile the man nad his t training ain labelle had not dallied long in skagway Sk Sh agway welsh followed him to vancouver B C and thence to seattle in seattle records of a local employment bureau showed that he had been I 1 swit sent to a n logging camp in the ba eastern stern part of the county welsh and rook vent there labelle had mo moved lovedon vedon on then the pursuers began a systematic search of tho the logging 0 camps the trail was followed to Sp spokane thence to nelson gelson and aad Ross landin D british rit h columbia back bach across the international boundary to thompsons Thomp sons falls through missoula and gutte butte in montana to pocatello idalio idaho and to C caden 0 den utah then mien came welshs welchs triumph one jump from O ogden oden den to the little town of wadsworth in nevada and eduard labello labelle quietly at work i in the carp camp of a railroad contractor was v as taken into tile the hands of the relentless and f lar ar reaching yukon law doubly identified by welsh and bi branded by both as a triple murderer tao flao captive weakened he admit admitted tea lils his knowledge rl 0 the killing and made his confession blaming fournier ile he r readily e arlly agreed to accompany tho detective to dawson without vit hout the formality of extradition tradition tho the trio star started tedon on blira a i V A 1 4 arts av 4 i tit turn trip while h in seattle on liis way to dawson labolle made what he claimed was afuli a full confes confession slon ile ho told of being no at tho the opposite end of odthe the island from froin wilds the party was camped and of it hearing three shots lio lie had suspected Fourni ors intention to kill the others and began to fear tor fo himself he remained away moie ciote than an hour and at length ventured into camp about midnight 1 I crept up close and looked around for the men 11 said labelle fournier Fourni cr stood th there ere alone I 1 had him covered with my rifle but was badly frightened furnner nier spoke first he came toward me acting abtil ig very nervously and said 1 I can pay you that money now just forget this its all right alg lit I 1 was vas so 30 frightened I 1 amow what I 1 was doing but I 1 look fook tho cla money 35 M 73 1 i i 1 vs I 1 ap p 0 4 V wt 11 ill L R V f ta 1 I 1 aria 11 ve M if 1 ag Vs k I 1 k gra B M aa T k jl u y r wu X an fn x WW W ti S A tl fe betl P V f Lr sr sa rolv ro wv faim chich lie he handed to me that is where I 1 made my mistake tn in relating his story of the murder F fourmer r said when we were in dawson D awson this spring JL labelle abelle came to mo me and said pete he always called me pete lets go to whitehorse white clorse we thought there might 0 be some ganies games running there wo we went there were no games there then I 1 labelle said we would meet strangers and hustle them down the river I 1 said its tough but I 1 am with you we got a small boat and we met the three follows fellows we agreed 0 to take them to Dawson for 6 each we camped at night every night labelle sal said d to tome me he would kill thorn them we camped the last night on an island below stewart jt ewart in the morning I 1 was asleep he throw a piece of wood at me and I 1 knew imey what it meant I 1 heard a shot I 1 was sure one was dono done for lie ho sald said it was a rabbit then lie he shot again then he fired back and shot the big man bouthilette ile he fired twice at him I 1 saw tho the three bodies near the water we searched the bodies and threw them ln in fournier admitted pawning the watch or of Bout lillette in darcan and stated that the bloodstained 11 otes notes found on him at the time of his arrest were given him by labelle Label lc the american authorities on the lower yukon found the body of gilbert edfors dut ors just jus where fournier fourmer said he was killed the corpse was picked up oct I 1 arid was lully fully identified at F eagle a go |