CRIME EXPIATED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 51, 27 January 1933, Page 12

CRIME EXPIATED.

INDIAN BAD MAN’S BRAVERY. A story of remarkable heroism by an Indian bad man is the latest epic of aeroplaning in Canada’s frozen north. Bill Spence, the noted “smiling aviator” of Western Prairies, is dead whiie the mechanic and three passengers with him when he made a forced la.nding owe their lives to the forti-' tude of an Indian prisoner, “Blister” Whiteway. In weather 30 degrees below zero Spence started from a Moose River factory for Winnipeg, and when a snowstorm forced lam down the ’plane overturned, killing the pilot and badly injuring the others. Mounted-Police Corporal Graves, who was bringing Whiteway in for a prison term, was knocked unconscious, and had both collarbone and five ribs broken. The mechanic and a passenger, John Robinson, suffered broken legs and terrible bruises. Whiteway soon regained consciousness, and found himself with a broken o.nlde, and so bitterly cold that he could hardly move, but piling blankets around his three companions, the Indian left them comfortable and crawled for a mile over snowdrifts until he encountered a tepee of wandering Indians. Within an hour the Indians had rescued the lialf-dozerl victims of the accident, who were brought into Winnipeg Hospital by another plane. Needless to say, the Indian will be pardoned.