GREAT MAN-HUNT.
END IN THE YUKON.
MAD TRAPPER KILLED
(Received February 18. 6.H5 p.m.) VANCOUVER, Feb. 17
One of (he greatest man-hunts in .the history of the North, which had lasted eight weeks in mid-winter blizzards, with the temperature below zero, ended to-day. Albert Johnson, known as "the mad trapper of the Arctic," was shot dead by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police after a dramatic last, stand on the frozen wastes of the tikon. Johnson was wanted for the murder of a constable and the wounding of another. Before he was killed he had seriously wounded another constable.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21111, 19 February 1932, Page 9
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