CANADA'S WATCHDOGS.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12748, 21 March 1910, Page 4

CANADA'S WATCHDOGS.

Several thrilling stories are given in the "Century Magazine" of the relentless way in which, a criminal is traced down by "Canada's Watchdogs," the men of the Royal NorthWest Mounted Police. Many adventurous iucideuts in the lonely lives of these keepers of the outposts of tlie Empire are vividly related by Miss Agnes Dean Cameron. Here is the story of one of the unconsidered adventures in the ordin ary round of police duties in the far North-West. . A Lorileoux Indian who 's now serving a life sentence in a Canadian prison for the murder of a two-year-old child, had to be tracked down and captured. This is how the work was done*— r . "A mounted policeman followed the wretch to a point nearer the Pole than many explorers reach, and got his man. "The policeman stocked a canoe with. 'Provisions, "fclio long <vn<"7 hazardous pourney up the Mackeiizio river began. For 1,200 miles the little procession pushed its way along the silent stream. * "At the bow sat the Indian, a manacled murderer, looking forward to a lifetime within prison walls. In the stern, paddle in hand, one lonely policeman, representing outraged Pax Brittannica. "The pair arrived eventually at Regina, where the constable handed over his prisoner, saluted, and fell back three paces. He had no report to make; there were.no commendations, no fireworks." Another incident shows a grim police chase ifchidi lasted six months. "A fugitive having fled from a ghastly murder committed in the ,j£londyke, Major Constantino sent out his sleuths on the track, and for half a year they followed their man. South from WJute Horse the constables dogged their murderer, picking up their first clue in' a little logging camp on Puget Sound. "The- bad man was trailed from Seattle to Butee, thence to"- Spokane, cinorth to Rossland, British Columbia, then at Ogden, Utah, we see ! Canada's watch-dogs, and on the Ne-vada-California line. "Finally the. hunted man was run to earth at Laredo, where, waiving extradition, he was carried to the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, and was put on board a British vessel." ;