“MOUNTEDS” GET THEIR MAN

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 356, 13 September 1933, Page 7

“MOUNTEDS” GET THEIR MAN

Eskimo Arrester! for Murder The law of the white man in Canada’s Far North has again asserted itself among the aboriginal inhabitants of the sub Arctic, and because he is accused of breaking that law, Ah Ig lak, a member of the Sherman Inlet Eskimos, of Adelaide Peninsula, is at St. Roch, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police post in the Northwest Territories, awaiting trial for murder. Information that the native had been arrested for a crime committed a year ago recently reached headquarters of that corps in Ottawa. Ah Ig Ink is alleged to have mur dered Arnaruak because (he latter had made advances to Ah I,g lak’s wfifO'. Arnaruak. dlpclat’esi [the Virief report submitted to the police headqquarters, was a bad man, and in shooting him Ah Ig lak was actuated by fear and jealousy. News of the crime ,the scene of which was laid in Adelaide Peninsula., on the mainland immediately south of the North Magnetic Pole, was first conveyed to the police in a letter from L.A., a trading post at Qjoa Haven, King William Island. Three Eskimos arrived at the post and stated that the killing had taken place some weeks before. ■ The information was four months in reaching the police., who at once set out to investigate. When Const able A. S. Wilson reached Adelaide. Peninsula, the Sherman Inlet group of natives had travelled inland. Other obstacles made if impossible to loilow them at. the time.

Later the constable made another trip eastward along the coastline oi the northern mainland and arrested Ah Ig lak.