AN ARCTIC DRAMA
DEMENTED TRAPPER IN CABIN CANADIAN POLICE REPULSED. OTTAWA, January 13. v (Received Jan, 14,,at 5.5 p.m.) A message from Edmonton states that when attempting to arrest Albert Johnson, a demented trapper, in a barricaded Arctic cabin, after he had shot and seriously wounded Constable A. W. King a week ago, a detachment of eight Royal Canadian Mounted Police with tear bombs were repulsed three times, and were forced to await reinforcements and supplies. Johnson, with a revolver in each hand, opened fire through loopholes in the walls. When police bombs crashed through the door and tore a hole in the roof, Johnson retreated to a tunnel under the cabin.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21543, 15 January 1932, Page 7
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