nine-mile, the two young men were
quite drunk. A party of Indians com-
ing down from Topley Landing had
met the two young men. Generous
with their unusual beverage, the two
lads offered the party some of the
extract. A convivial round, and the
group moved towards TYopley leav-
ing the two behind. This had been
about 3:20 p.m. on the 19th. No
cone had seen two white men on the
road, though a number of persons
were questioned on this point.

The two packsacks found by
Kylling near his truck and later taken
to the police office by Constable
Strouts, showed a number of things
helpful to the police in solving the
crime. Some vanilla extract was dis-
covered similar to that purchased by
the two men. Two letters addressed
to Williams and handed to him by
the store-keeper that very morning,
were in one of the bags.

R. W. Innes of Richfield Mines
when interviewed, told the investi-
gating officers that the two Indians
had come to his house, saying Kyll-
ing had been shot and needed a car
right away. So Mr. Innes had tele-
phoned to Mackie, the storekeeper
at Topley and asked him to come up
as soon as possible, also to notify the
doctor and the police. Williams had
been very anxious Innes relay some
information to Mackie. Turning
aside to Williams, he heard the latter
say, “You tell that man we left
bunkhouse at Topley at exactly 3
o'clock.’ Complying, he relayed the
statement, but wondered why the In-
dians were so insistent on establish-
ing an ‘“‘alibi.”” When the two boys
had spoken about meeting Kylling

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at eight-mile, and coming down to
the mine to ‘phone, Mr. Innes asked
them why Kylling’s ‘phone had not
been used. They had replied, “‘Phone
out of order. Wire cut.”’ Later inves-
tigation showed Kylling had made

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At completion of assize court at Prince

Rupert. Left to right: Constable R. W.

Strouts, Lawrence Kylling and Sgt.
J. Henry.

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did he even know it had, so the only
persons who could have known
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as compared with
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respect.

To Mr. Innes they also repeated
the story about the two white men,
“one small old fellow and one taller
young man,” who had been carrying
a .22 rifle at three-mile the same
afternoon.

The grandmother of the prisoner
Williams was interviewed and re-
called she had made the gun case for
him when he wasa small boy. Later
on at the preliminary hearing she
failed to identify it and said that she
nad made many of these, so could
not identify this particular one.

There being no evidence against
the prisoner Michel who was being
held on a charge of vagrancy, the
charge against him was disposed of
and he was subsequently discharged.
Williams, however, was charged with
attempted murder.

Kylling was a very sick man for
about six weeks. He finally recovered
sufficiently to be able to testify at the
preliminary hearing which was held
at Topley on April 11, 1947, before
Stipendiary Magistrate H. Davies of
Smithers at the request of Magistrate
Mulvaney of Burns Lake. Sergeant
Henry acted for the Crown and sys-
tematically called witness after wit-
ness to establish a prima facie case
for the Crown. Calling the accused’s
fellow traveler Michel, the prosecu-
tion was faced with a_ set-back.
While he had been fairly voluble dur-

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