MAD TRAPPER
Slain in the Yukon END OF LONG MAN HUNT. (Ans. & N.Z. Cable Assn). VANCOUVER, February 17. Aklavik, in the North West territories, has been the scene of one of the greatest man hunts in the history of the North, lasting for eight weeks during mid-winter blizzards and below zero weather. The man hunt halted to-day, however, when Albert Johnston, the mad trapper of the Arctic, was shot and killed by the Royal Canadian Mount ed Police, after he had made a dramatic. last stand on the frozen wastes of tho Yukon.
Johnston was being sought for slaying a police constable and wounding another. Before he was killed, Johnston on Wednesday seriously wounded another constable.
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Grey River Argus, 19 February 1932, Page 5
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116MAD TRAPPER Grey River Argus, 19 February 1932, Page 5
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