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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1935-05-23, Page 6tP` ?AGG SIX i .wr MHA i✓.Jr it WIN bA,M.IAM ADVA CEnnTIME$ I"1/1 rods ►, May 23rd, 192 Speed Malone, hardened gambler," and Ed. Maitland, son of a seafaring. New England family, were partners in the Yukon gold rush of '97. They met on the trip north in a crowd that i1t.nc tc,e d Frenchy, y, th e fisherman, Lucky Rose, the beautiful girl ,who. too. a fancyIva' n' is to t rtla d, :Fallon, leader of the miner's, who resented Rose's interest in Maitland; Brent, old-time prospector; Garnet, who gave Maitland and Speed his outfit when he quit the trail, and. Pete and his drunken, partner Owens, who was. drowned after a brawl. Pete turned out to be a girl in disguise. Pete kill- ed a man at Skagway—a cheat man- ager of a shell game—and months lot- er was arrested and put in jail for his murder. He got out, but while he waited for Lefty, who offered to help him, to get back the snail he had been carrying for the Mounties at Bennett —where Drew and Cathcart were sta- tioned—he was recaptured by his en- emy, Fallon. But Maitland and Pete rescued] him as Fallon was about to lynch him, They made for their camp at Bennett—Pete and Maitland with the horses, by one route, Speed by another with the dogs, led by Rusty, who had come to themhi a blizzard. Led by the lead dog, Rusty, they found Dalton's deserted cabin, The second morning, Dalton staggered in mortally wounded—and died before he could tell Pete where the claim was _ Two Mounties arrest Speed and Maitland for the murder (of which they are innocent) of a Siwash on Lake Lebarge. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY, "And so, gentlemen Of the Jury, the Crown will prove that the defendants had a motive for the murder of this Siwash; and did in fact kill The Crown Prosecutor Wade,cast a icavy-lidd:d, mordant.stare t the jury and sat• down, 13y contrast, Garnet, at an adjoining table nearer the prisoner's dock, looked like an urbane courtier. The arrival of one of the first tip - river steamers, some weeks before, had provided the accused men with their distinguished counsel. Garnet's mission in the North had proved to be a political one. Learning, when he landed, of the charge against the two partners, he hadoffered to ,undertake their' defense. Maitland looked older for the . two months of prison life that had elapsed. since his arrest. The shadowed look in his eyes, however, was not wholly due to the ordeal ahead 'of hint; it came from one that' was past. A weather-beaten man he hacl nev- er seen was being sworn in. Garnet had resumed his seat. Fallon's bulky figure slouched at ease toward the center of the row of witnesses. Near- er, Maitland's oyes rested on Pete, with the emotion which.' the sight of a loved and loyal friends brings to a man in trouble. A wave of tender- ness brimmed his heart. Pete wore a summery frock of light blue; her golden hair was longer than he re- membered it, and arranged in a more feminine fashion. It was his first •ter.., it's it 4e7 a221a1 clef° he eh: .luny '2.Zed ed K'1 a< us ed "et' - 27�dsO 6=x2 Cod 1) 01/ J i bown Have St 1CYCJlsa Qpped, CQ ZQtt1 `Says �Sel *h.nucx ST ay �! c sg1 ,,ec t AT EVERY INTERSECTION E CAREFUL! HERE were over 800 bicycle riders killed or injured in Ontario last year. Bicyclists, especially children, are often careless. This simply means that drivers of motor vehicles must be twice as careful. Remember that you are in. the heavier vehicle. At stop streets ... stop! Discipline yourself when you drive. Cut down on speed, especially at night. Make sure that your brakes, tires and lights are effective ... other- wise, some clay, you may find yourself in serious trouble. IT IS BETTER TO BE SAFE w . THAN SORRY! MOTOR VEHICLES BRANCH ONTARIO DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS ONTARto Ontario must start THINKING safety! In Ontario, during 1934, there were nearly 10,000 auto.. mobile accidents. 812 people were killed 8,990 people were injured A considerable increase over 1933. It naust be evident to all thinking people that this must sip. Xlary. , B, rileOsrtsttio, Mahler oI"ii g ilieryr.. glimpse' of her in girl's attire, was altogether lovely. Police records of the finding of the native's body that Spring in the break- ing ice of Lake Lebarge, had e stab- lisaed the fact of murder. The Siwash had killed by a .44 bullet which had struck him in the back. His corpse had been disposed of through an air hole in the ice, and had lain in this concealment through the winter. Its having g 'floated finally to the surface was due to the rising warm currents from the lake bed. Wade's first witness was a trader from the old post at Ogilvie on the Yukon. The trader told a very queer story, which went back into earlier Yukon days, and rehearsed the tale which the accused men had already heard from Drew. While some of this testimony was open to objections, Garnet passed the witness without cross-examining, and Wade called a seasoned -looking offic- er of the Mounted Police. Wade here produced the furs and mukluks Dalton had 'worn. He coin - pared thein with those taken from the body of 'the murdered indian to drove, by an identical working of the bead ornaments, that they had been fash-' Zoned by the same native hand. Garnet had passed this evidence without question. Wade called Cor- poral Cathcart to the stand. Cathcart explained that the tracks angled in an odd way through the timber that sheltered the camp, and were difficult to read. He told of finding a pool of blackening snow crystals near the head of the lake, covered but showing through ina dark shadow. He had then sought out theefen nt• andquestioned d da s qua, stoned them. "They said d they had met no Siwash, and showed an unwillingness t o say anything more. When h n I asked. them about theblood r b and clu: t, P thye explained ed it as the blood of a caribou they had shot, and produced a fresh hide to prove it. Their carbine, a -44 calibre gun, had not been cleaned, and still showed a powder mark." The witness told of his visit to the cabin in the wane of the _blizzard, while Speed was being sent to Skag- way. Before he reached the door, a Siwash dog had slunk out of his wa,.y around the cabin wall, and he caught only a storm -whitened glimpse of it. The dscovery that the defendants had a maimute clog was, of course, start- ling, and a fact of great importance. Maitland, when asked where it came from, claimed to have found it astray, not long after his partner --had shot the caribou on Lake Lebarge. "In the meantime, the Siwash's body was found in the breaking ice of Lake Lebarge, establishing the fact of murder. "To establish our case against the accused men, it remained to be prov- ed that they actually used the dog to trace its camp or origin, and that that camp was the hide-out of an unknown white prospector with a gold secret. As was proved." Garnet, after a brief address to the jury as to the circumstantial nature of the evidence, called the first, and so far as was known, the only wit - nes for the defense. Pete was unmistakably a very at- tractive girl; to this crowd of hard - living men she was something more rare and gracious than the words convey, or than may be imagined by any but men who have lived in fron- tier mining camps. "Had you ever seen the defendants before they arrived in Skagway?" Gar- net asked. "No, sir." "What was Owens' relation to you?" "1 supposeyou would call him my foster father. • I was raised at his ranch." "Did he ever speak` to you of yottr real father?" "Only once. He spoke then .as if Dalton were my father. Or anyway some near kin of mine." • "What did you do after Owens died?" "I went over the pass to find Dal- ton and warn hint, I sold a gold - mounted gun and some things I had for grub, and rode down the lakes looking for him. I didn't find any- one waiting, and didn't have much to go on, not 'even knowing.. what Dal- ton, looked like, When the cold carne, I niet a rafting outfit who camped to ettt timber a little way 1.11 the T estin, and they gave me a job cooking :for them through the winter." "Why did yoti leave them?" Garnet prompted. . ' "It was only a week or two before the .break-up. I hadn't heard anything of :Dalton, and was wondering what to do. "That night 1 woke up hcaritt' a voice close to my bums, on the other" side of the tent wall. The voice was nd sh shouting to pre above the noise of the storm, but it so►nded diva. The words were something like, `If you're Pete, get out of the North, and get (Meld. You're in danger. I'M in a tough fixe can't take yott down rivet', For God's sake keep clear of •- The Wind shrieked and the voice died away. I wasn't sore of what it said at the last. "Soon after that, one of Fallon's men happened by the camp and saw me, I knew Fallon was lookin' for Me, and felt that this was what the warning meant. I saddled the mare and start- ed for the coast. "It was a heavy,' cold trail. The go ing was easier on the level ,snow of Lake. Lebarge, but Chiquita and 1 were both dead tired by thee, and there's more than a day I'm not clear about, All the time I'had a feeling Rose's dark eyes showed a glitter of fire when they crossed with Fal- lon's. .of being followed or shadowed by 'someone or something. "Then— lost count. I I kind of think I�asi nariver canyon when hen the storm broke. There were wild voices in it likewolves. I ntst have pulled the mare out of it and into the open when the storm struck. The next thing I knew I was in Mr.'k[ait- land's cabin. The dog led hini to where I'd fallen in the snow." "Did you tell Maitland why you. were making for Skagway in that weather?" "No, sir?" "Why didnt' you, Pete?" "He and Speed had had a quarrel with Fallon before, and I didn't want to make it worse because of me. Or to mix them up in any trouble about Dalton either." "During your stay in the cabin, did Maitland ask you any questions about Owens or Dalton, or his gold secret?" "No, sir. Anything I told him was of my own accord." "Did you feel safe there?" "I felt as safe as if I was in—God's pocket." The courtroom smiled a little at this homely but expressive miners' phrase. Pete then told what had happened up to the arrest of the accused mei in Dalton's camp. "I will ask you one more question," said Wade, in the deep silence that followed. "Do you love the defend- ant, Maitland?" Fete's gray eyes were shadowed; She bit her lip as she had done that day when she recovered from the throes of cold. Two big tears rolled•: down her cheeks. "I have told the truth," she murmured. "I think, Your. Honor," said Wade, "that the question has been sufficient- ly answered." * * * Next morning, when the court re- opened, Garnet produced an unexpect- ed witness. He looked toward the rear of the courtroom and said,"Rose V al cry." At the name, Fallon came upright in his chair, startled out of the de- tachment. He turned his head in frowning .unbelief. But he was unnoticed by the court- room as Rose approached the stand. Though the river had carried many rumors of her beauty, this was her first appearance in Dawson, Indifferent to the crowd's stare, she looked at the aecttsed men and then at Pete, with some inward unread- able thought; Her dark eyes showed a glitter of fine when they crossed with Fallon's, who slouched back now, carelessly, while she was being sworn in, , "Miss Vafery," said Garnet, "where were yott born?" "I don't know," Rose answered. Ider tow voice had the quality of plucked harp strings, "Where were you cared for as a child?" "in the content school at ,Notre Dame at the Mission Dolores in San Francisco, 1 was taught music and singing at the convent," Rose ventur- ed, "until I was 1.5, but 1 kvas test - less, and discipline only made nae un happy, I decided 'to, run away, anti -did, and So became a tixrufessiot.ut, singer, "I had a plan - of reaching the gold - Country. A little after dark I climb- ed over the '.convent wall at a place where a sloping barn roof tot.tched it, I got an n Ar:eet car at Guerrero St. As 1 hadn't -any fare the conduetor put me off 'at the second:Stop, two blocks away. "A; boy w:asSinging in tt high so- prano voice in front of an open4tirr bootblack stand nekt the Saloon where the sports were getting shined op for the eiening. "It surprised mc: to see the men at the shoe -stand throw 'hire money — even ane half -dollar. piece—for what wasn't really a good song, or very good singing, except for being strong and clear.:'While he gathered u5x the coins, l sang the refrain of the sum;. The boy was angry, but the risen en- couraged me, end we tried. to sing each other down. As it was easier to chord with him, 1 sang alto ,and our duet stopped the shoe -shining. 'When we finished the siren gave inc u handful of silver; one of them. hand - cd me a dollar piece. "I divided what I got with the boy, and then he wanted us to throw in together and play the corner, but I said 1 was going to Nevada to sing in the gold camps. The boy got excited and wanted to go. While we were talking it over, a shadow fell between us from the street' lamp, and 1 found that the man who'd given Me the dollar was stand- ing there listening," " 'So your'e headin' for Nevada?' he asked. "When I agreed we 'were, he said he knew all about the country; had been there not so long before and brought out a heap of gold, and he was going- again, so he could give us. a steer and see that we were treated right. "On the car goingd rn • �vn he oc1 i,o , said something to the boy I couldn't hear,ailgavehim agoldcoin. 1 d or The boy got off, telling me he was going to buy some things and meet us later, "I wasn't so sure about the man's looks. He was big, rather handsome, and sunburned. He said we couldn't l start till morning, and he got me a room at a hotel near the Baldwin. He told me he wasnt' going to Nev- ada. didn't Heneed to, and didn't want to." I was angry and disgusted. While he was sleeping, I got out. I still had some of the small change I'd sung for, and soon found that money was easy to earn that way. I bought a guitar and some clothes, and paid my own way to. Nevada. One night I was playing a camp casino in Golcunda when a woman who was drinking with a fuddled miner called. - me to their table, to sing for titertl, Site }vas lutlf,�d.rttnh herself. .1Jtrr 'Nee I °,r,wuewnw.r ,„I (I I have been beautiful (meet (Continued Next `Week) INwRP'NI!Ab11�l1yeT NP M"!"M.}r},yp.,,.,.,�,;,, �'''�^] WAVES .4. Fay .012T'HERI` E ” �lrl!R��M�*n..rn.rt.,r.Mrrl.�wrr.rw.n.+w,a++r,10}IrM1F41R00.411,01. .....0104.1,0 ? r, h.e tt I nittg to . headquarters at Ottawa t after a :Rini' weeks' trip'to the Prairie Jrrovinces. and British caluattbia, Iirncst '7:3oshueil, Canadian Radio Commissionprogram: director for Ontario and the West, tells 'of tete real tkrill 1te experienced when, accompanied by Horace Etovin; west•' ern regional progrant dirt etor, ; Jte listened to:the.first rehearsal of the May 6 jubileebroadcast. ".1t was nine o'clock in the 'Ed- monton studios," relates kir, Bushnell. "Von could •hear a pin drop. The net- work front 'coast to coast was 'con- nected and it Was then that Gordon Olive, E. W, Jackson and George A. Taggart, gave the last minute in str'uctions to operators at the various originating points. ERNESir BU HN E S ELI_ Radio Commission Program Director For Ontario and The West. "When everything was in readiness, the actual task of synchronizing the bands in the nine provinces and wield- ing together' the different features, began. Details of how the bands were to come in were explained by Mr. Taggart. Came the' cue •`all right Hali- fax'—a moment of breathless suspense -and we heard the first few bars of 'Oh Canada,' Thus it went ,right across Canada, our national, anthem, played by nine bands, but sounding like one. It• could be done, had been done, and will be done again. It was then that even. 'I, toughened to this game as I r'trn, gut thethrill' of anyy life;' In reference to, the radio a ro situation in : Western Canada Mr. Bushnell stated that some changes will be ef- fected this summer and 'in the early fall which will improve the program service there. "At the presenttime, he added, "the programs are of ari ex- cellent character and I believe that the public of that part of the Domin- ion is reacting the type of entertain- ment now being supplied by the Com- mission." This was Mr. i3ushnell's third trip to the West and he hopes to return next September when the fall and winter schedule of programs will'coin mence. GORDON CAMERON SHOWS 'EM HOW "Intestinal fortitude" is a diplo naatic way : of describing what the average young man requires if he is to make his mark in this highly com- petitive world. That and a large amount of determination and the "never -say -die spirit. Those characteristics are strongly apparent in Gordon Cameron, a young singer who recently made his debut over the Radio Commission's na- tional net work on the "Concert Caravan" program from Toronto. This 24 -year-old youth went to Tor- onto via the open road and "hitch- hike" route, equipped with, a brilliant. voice, o ce high courage, g but with a slim roll of dollars in `his pocket. En- couraged by his parents, who live in Ottawa, he embarked on his radio t career. ee . Three days afterr his arrival he was on a programa at CFRI3 and since then he has had several en- couraging g g experiences, After obtain- ing a position as soloist at Yonge Street United Church, he was given an audition at the Commission studios. ,Stanley Maxted, regional program director ,immediately slated hini for the "Concert Caravan" on which guests vocalists are being presented. Cameron made his network bow with musical support by the weel-known conductor, Simeon Joyce, and in com- pany with Willian Primrose ,one of • the leading viola soloists of Great Britian, and. Alice Strong, gifted young soprano of Toronto. Professional Directory J, W. BUSHFIELD ° Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan. 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