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P.O. Box 264

Telephones—Store: 760 - 764

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Prince Rupert

Fishermen's Co-operative Assortalion
PRODUCERS OF QUALITY FISH

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Office: 763

Prince Rupert, B. C.

Mac’s Shoe Hospital
FIRST CLASS SHOE REBUILDING
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623 West Second Avenue
Prince Rupert, B. C.

MITCHELL and CURRIE

Builders and Contractors

Shop and Office: 125 East Third Avenue

Prince Rupert, B. C.

BESNER CAB SERVICE

R. H. Morgan, Proprietor
PHONE 80 (DAY OR NIGHT)
Passengers Insured

Two New Dodge Cars at Your Service

Besner Block, Prince Rupert, B. C.

A. MacKENZIE FURNITURE
LIMITED
A. MacKenzie, Proprietor

COMPLETE HOME FURNISHINGS
Phone 775
Prince Rupert, B. C.

Producers—Wholesalers—Brokers

PACIFIC LOG SALES
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313—3rd Ave. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.

GORDON & ANDERSON

LIMITED
Everything for the Home

Frigidaires, Duo-Therm Heaters, Kroehler
Furniture.

Westinghouse Appliances and Complete
Household Hardware.

PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.

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hind him and snatched the loaded automatic
from the table, “I'll come quietly. But what’s
it all about?”

With head held jauntily erect Krefchenko
accompanied the armed party across the
lot, swaggered down the street and stepped
into the waiting auto.

An hour later Chief MacPherson was
back at the College Avenue house searching
the front yard. Under the lower fence
scantling he found two fat rolls of bills
which, upon being counted, totalled eight
hundred and ten dollars. To excited re-
porters he had little to say when he drove
back to the station. “Yes, I’ve just picked
up eight hundred and ten dollars,” he ad-
mitted. “And yesterday I located seventy-
four ten dollar bills in the southeast part
of the city. I believe theyre part of the
Plum Coulee loot.”

Behind the bars at Rupert Street station
Krefchenko took the situation amiably,
joked with his guards and assured them that
when his time came to speak he’d produce
an alibi that nobody could: shake.

With Krefchenko in their clutches police
soon realized it was one thing to place him
behind the bars and quite another thing to
link him definitely with the Plum Coulee
murder. Time and again the hearing was
postponed without any formal charge of
murder being made. Newspapers, voicing
the views of the man on the street, asked
consistently if Krefchenko was the culprit,
or if police, looking for a goat, had picked
on him because of his former criminal
record. Admitting that Krefchenko was a
crook, he'd at least proved himself a clever
one in the past, and was it likely he’d choose
for a bank robbery a place where he was
well-known?

Not till December 30th did Krefchenko
appear before Provincial Magistrate Bonny-
castle to face a formal charge of robbing
the Plum Coulee bank of four thousand,
seven hundred dollars and murdering J. H.
Arnold, the manager. Brisk and trim in a
well-pressed suit of navy blue, he entered
the dock with smiling unconcern and fol-
lowed proceedings with an amused and tol-
erant smile. As evening drew on he com-
mented with a yawn on the tedious nature
of proceedings, and reminded the judge that
though he wasn’t in a particular hurry he’d
like to go rabbit hunting in the spring.

On the cold grey night of January 10th,
Krefchenko stood chatting amiably with his
two guards, Flower and Reid, in his cell on
the third floor of the Rupert Street gaol.
Ceasing his conversation he commenced to
pace restlessly to and fro while the two

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Prince Rupert, B.C.

MUSSALLEM’S
ECONOMY STORE

“WHERE DOLLARS HAVE MORE CENTS”

GROCERIES, FRESH FRUIT,
VEGETABLES

317-19 3rd Avenue
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.

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Imperial Machine Works
ENGINEERS AND MACHINISTS
Installing Engines and General Repairing
Oxy-Acetylene Welding
Brass, Cast Iron, Etc.—Gear Cutting
H. R. LOVE, Proprietor
COW BAY, PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.

P.O. Box 282 Phone 91

F. E. HUNT, LIMITED
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Fishermen’s Halibut and Trolling Supplies

Importers of
MITTET HEMP HALIBUT LINES, HOLLAND
CORDAGE and NORWEGIAN OIL CLOTHING

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C.

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