The girl was then further inter- viewed and confirmed Wiegner’s Me but added that Wiegner had told her “I thought I was going to have to kill you too, to keep from going to gaol.” In view of the disclosures made, both Wiegner and the girl were held in custody pending the outcome of the case. While under detention in rather limited quarters, the couple passed notes to each other by swing- ing a fork at the end of a string, so that it would pass in front of the other cell. A number of these notes were intercepted and revealed an af- fection not ordinary to a couple of their respective ages. For Louise had just celebrated her 13th birthday on the day after her father was killed and while she was traveling south with the person responsible. BG. As soon as the prosecutor and sheriff had obtained the first state- ments from the man and girl, these were at once communicated to Sheriff Smith of Montgomery County. The latter, his worst suspicions confirmed, immediately wired to the B.C. Police at Pouce Coupe, giving them a gen- eral outline of this amazing case. POLICE TAKE ACTION Sub-Inspector (now Inspector) Duncan, Officer Commanding the Peace River Sub-Division of the Force, promptly got into action. Without wasting any time, he com- menced the search immediately, but directed a wire back to Dayton, Ohio, asking for more particulars. To understand the magnitude of the search, something should be known of the Alaska Highway country. It stretches for hundreds of miles through unpopulated territory, a thin ribbon of road flanked by thousands of acres of jack pines. A few feet off the highway, and you are in the wilderness. The country is rolling and definite landmarks are not plen- tiful. However, there was one clue which was to be of help to the police officers engaged in the search. The spot where the body reportedly lay, was within five miles of a gas station. It had been August 25 when the Wire arrived at Pouce Coupe. In- spector Duncan, picking up Con- stable Lumsden and Game Warden Williams at Fort St. John, began his search for ‘“‘a needle in a hay- stack.’’ The gas station at Blueberry, Mile 101 of the Highway, had burn- ed down since the shooting, a forest fire having done considerable damage to the surrounding countryside. The search commenced at Mile 101 north as far as Mile 147, Beatton River, without result. Searching continued through August 26. Constables Lum- sden and Game Warden Williams were sent back temporarily to Fort NINETEENTH EDITION Kimball County Courthouse. St. John while Inspector Duncan continued his search on August 27 with the aid of a party of men from a nearby road camp. As a result of the wire sent to Dayton, further in- formation arrived that tin cans would be found by the side of the road, and that a metal drum which had been used as a stove lay on the other side of the road. With this additional material to guide them the searchers soon found the spot, but in the jungle-like bush, nothing could be found to indicate the presence of a body. It was not till a man came by, bound for Alaska with his Labrador dog, that the search terminated. On request of the police, the dog’s owner gladly allowed her to be used. Plac- ing the dog in the vicinity of the tin cans, it was only a matter of minutes for her to locate the body lying about 160 feet from the road. The Inspector and investigating officers, however, noted that the body was probably some distance from the place where it had originally fallen. It had been attacked by wolves, and while still recognizable, the upper portion had been mostly eaten away and both arms had been torn off. It was evident that the victim had been killed by a gun shot wound, which was still clearly visible at the base of the skull, about two inches from the right ear. 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