Show MAD ARCTIC TRAPPER IS SLAIN BY THE POLICE spectacular man hunt by mounties bounties Mo unties Is ended winnipeg the abe royal canadian mounted pollee police came to the end of a two months trail in the frozen wastes when they killed albert johnson n mad man of the arctic the hd end to one of canadas most spectacular man hunts came in a battle lu in which tile the demented trapper and miner fell in a hall hail of bullets from nearly a dozen kincs but the groggy loh before he be dropped steadied a wavering hand band and seriously wounded staff slate sergeant hersey II ersey ills his third moun tle victim the posse of twelve which had been tracking jonnson johnson for weeks over the arctic snow and through blizzards in temperatures ranging from 20 to 50 degrees below zero came upon him film doubling back bach 11 he e started to run from tile the trill trail when he be saw sair sergeant Her jerseys and noel ve dog team behind a mound he opened the fighting As sergeant cersey kneeled to shoots shoot john sons rifle blazed two bullets caught hersey in the knee and chest the other members of the party by thI this time bad surrounded johnson and he soon dropped into the snow dead when johnsons last battle began capt W n may who had added his airplane to tile the wild chase equipped with dynamite bombs and tear gas was too cose close for may to use the bombs lie landed after the policemen had killed their man placed sergeant hersey in ills his plane and raced with him to tile the aklavik hospital doctors despaired of his life johnson struggling desperately with cold and hunger was heading bending for at least a temporary safety in alaska when the mount les fulfilled their vow to got get their man he was in the porcupine valley about IGO miles from allavie aklavik AL lavik in the northwest territory it was last fall that johnson came into the northwest bad lands to hunt bunt gold with only a pair of snowshoes and two automatic pistols reports are that he made a big strike and that if he had been able to retain his bis sanity he be would have returned a rich man jahnson was h a hunted man since the day eight weeks ago when he be wounded constable A E king who tried to arrest him as a trap thief three weeks ago he killed constable 11 1 1 union millen the police realized then that they were nere dealing with the cunning of madness and redoubled their efforts it was not an easy task time after time he fought pitched battles with them and escaped aided by expert use of all the craft of the northland on january 10 a posse su rounded ills his cabin and laid siege to it for 10 hours re ne fou feusht ailt them brick back an automatic in each hand finally throe three men stayed to guard the cabin while messengers went for reinforcements for cements they found after their return on january 20 that tha johnson had slipped away 11 ne was tracked into a valley near at bay he faced ills his pursuers again this was the time he killed constable millen ill llen and johnson once again escaped HOW dow he managed to exist no one knows blizzards and the 40 below zero temperature apparently did not faze him lie he kept on with but scant sleep where he got his food was a mystery A few days ago however the mount les detected signs of exhaustion the trail began to zi zigzag zag and the steps grew shorter it was the beginning of the end karly early in the morning the moun mount lies les closed in on johnson Jo linson and the end was inevitable |