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HOTEL DOUGLAS

J. EM. NEELY, Manager

Victoria's Standard Hotel

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VICTORIA, B.C.

Phone Garden 3232
PALM DAIRIES LTD.
Finest Quality Dairy Products
“The Cream of Them All”
VICTORIA, B.C.

Frank L. Thomson Office Phone, G 2612

Chamsnon Funeral Home

Directors of Funeral Service

Established 1893

1625 Quadra Street Victoria, B.C.

WILLIAMSON & SON LTD.
ARTISTS’ MATERIALS — FRAMING
Everything for the Photographer
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640 Fort Street VICTORIA, B.C.

Harte-Andrews Paints
LIMITED
PAINT MANUFACTURERS AND
DECORATORS
WALLPAPERS
ESTIMATES FREE

‘Factory: 1302 Wharf St. Phone G 5822
Retail Store: 711 View St. Phone G 4713

VICTORIA, B. C.

Bread and Cake (Canada) Limited
For Service, Phone Garden 3431
High Quality Bakery Products
VICTORIA — VANCOUVER

KER & STEPHENSON

LIMITED
Unusual Service in
Real Estate Insurance
Mortgages

1121 Government Street Victoria, B.C.

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cabin 34 and after seeing the provincial
officer remove handcuffs and legiron from
the two men in the upper berth, Chief
Roche and his assistant left the ship. Twice
before daylight a patrolling town policeman
passed the ferry as it lay at the dock and
noted that all was in order in cabin 34.
At 5.30 a.m. the sternwheeler’s engines
commenced their rhythmic throb, and the
steamer headed for Peachland, the first stop.

Lay PLANS FOR ESCAPE

As the vessel churned the icy waters of
Okanagan Lake, James, shackled in the top
bunk, was turning over plans in his mind—
plans for escape. For the police officers had
overlooked something—and that something
was a .22 revolver which the bandit wore
in a holster under his shirt and next his
skin. By the light of a small lantern hung
in the corner of the cabin, the man in the
top berth could view the constable’s kit bag
in one corner, his coat hanging on the back
of the door, a water jug, a glass... a grim
sneer tightened the corners of James’ mouth
as he saw the glass. A plan formulated in
the criminal’s mind. It’s execution would

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Provincial Constable Geoffrey H. Aston, Pentic-

ton Detachment. A native of Lincolnshire, Eng-

land, he served with the 17th Lancers and the

Royal North West Mounted Police before joining
the B. C. Police.

-Photo by Savannah, Victoria

have to wait until they neared the next stop
—Peachland.

An hour passed by. Aston had risen,
and was sitting on the settee smoking his
pipe.

As the two prisoners lay quietly in the
top bunk, the dull reverberation of the
ship’s engines was the only sound in the
tiny cabin.

James broke the silence.

“Can I have a drink of water?” he asked
as he raised himself in a sitting position.

“Sure,” said Aston. Rising and turning
his back on the prisoner he filled the glass
from the water jug. When he turned, glass
in hand, he found himself looking straight

Office Phone: E 6213
Res. Phone E-8847 ALB-62-G

ISLAND BUILDING —
SUPPLY CO. _

HARRY BURNETT, Manager ey :
BUILDERS’ SUPPLIES |

518 Fort St. (Cor. Langley)
VICTORIA, B. C.

SANITARY, HEATING and OIL ENGINEERS —
SHEET METAL WORK

755 Broughton St. Victoria, B.C. |

Phone G 6211 Si

Gorge Hotel

A. Mawer, Manager

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“The Home of Comfort”

LICENSED PREMISES

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Tillicum Road VICTORIA, B. C.

“There'll Always Be an England”

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Victoria Unit No. 12

Victoria, B.C.

1001 Wharf Street

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Pioneer Fruit & Vegetable :
Co., Ltd. .

WHOLESALE FRUITS, VEGETABLES
AND PRODUCE
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Day Phone G 7108
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4 P.O. Box 834
VICTORIA, B.C.
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