AN ESKIMO POLICEMAN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16914, 1 April 1929, Page 12

AN ESKIMO POLICEMAN

I MEMBER OF FAMOUS FOSCE BOMASCE OP APPGBSrTMJSXT At Bernard Harbor, a lonely tacStc : post on Corona: nm vhilt, in S&e A : «Stein Arctic, jives Tkalnkpiak, with his wife Khattia. His laenfeou in the ftnnra] rep .;. ,; tbt N wrtw3 Police |! ■ ndsess wrhiie cm .. TMNnik p; trdl to bridge Gulf, recalls Ike excnordii arj cannkmstances amies v. hvh 1 piak joined the World's BSOSt fa police force. Seven yeais age two Eskimos, Ha ..-■. pint and *we« m ■':. partner*, sfaaorihqg the same and t.he saute wife, hThattia. Aeeordtng to LkaTrnkpiak, be became in danger oif his life throocfe . feis partner's ;-.. mts Khatiia. The two ww : . ... me day to retrieVi ii«a meat from ;. abbe. I3;aiMl']i::!>. 11 ton id An S Ibei kj : i urn to 3 isehel I-::,--.. 1 .-.-,;:;. iation for miles ronnd was ordpred by the police to be present at the trial. ! Hie jtcry found the Eskrmc guilty and be w»s sentenced to live yews" imrhts i' ; t'o at Coronation Gnll, where he kib s)»poinie<j special r.*r::-er riS Sh bpolire. irith dnties of mai rtraner, i . and inter] reto, tss "wd as ..--, ian of the white nam's law. He has been there ever simea, and is reported fp be « useful dEeer. The taitbfal 'Klmitia still rules his ii*?D», "fen: i is no likelihood of a third ocnmsnl Her ]ovd find master has •'cr::c fens;-