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Strouts drove out to the cabin in the
woods. Arriving about midnight, he
began a thorough search for the
assailants. However, alone, and with
very little information to go on, he
made a cursory examination of the
cabin. Just as he was entering the
cabin, something caught his eye, and
he picked up a moose hide gun case,
common among North Country In-
dians. There was no doubt that the
cabin had been forcibly entered, for
the two home-made wooden hinges
were freshly broken. ‘The inside of
the cabin showed signs of being ran-
sacked, and beer bottles littered the
bed. There was little point to con-
tinue the examination in darkness,
so Constable Strouts drove back to
where Kylling’s truck was stalled in
the snow bank. On the rear plat-
form of the truck were two pack-
sacks. The constable picked them
up and held them for later and more
thorough examination. Returning to
Topley, he thought it best to seek
out the two young Indians and ask
them a few questions. Around 3:15
a.m. he called at the residence of one
Vincent Morrice, who had been on
the party bringing in Kylling. Both
Williams and Michel were there.
Promptly asking Williams for his
gun, the latter hesitated only a mo-
ment then led the officer through the
front door, and showed him the rifle
which had been left outside the
house. Picking up the weapon, Con-
stable Strouts noticed that it was a
single shot .22 calibre of cheap
manufacture. Putting two and two
together, the constable promptly ar-
rested both Williams and Michel and
took them back to Burns Lake lock-
up.

Now came the search for evidence.
Williams had denied shooting Kyll-
ing, alleging that two white men on
the road had shot at him and his
companion, thus leaving an inference
the same parties had wounded Kyll-
ing. The shooting had occurred on
the afternoon of February 19, 1947,
and the arrests had been made in the
early morning hours of the 20th. Re-
turning to the scene of the shooting
by daylight, Strouts resumed his
search for evidence. If he could only

find the bullet, he reflected, “‘ballis-
tics’’ at Headquarters could help. But
to find a bullet in a mass of rubble,
broken branches, boughs, wood chips,
. that was

and three feet of snow. .

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another thing. He couldn't find the
bullet. Returning to the cabin, how-
ever, he noticed that the telephone
wire which led to the shack, had been
cut. Not broken, but deliberately
cut by some sharp instrument, such
as a knife. This was another angle
cn which to work. The crude door
lock of the cabin had not been tam-
pered with, but the hand-made
wooden hinges were broken. The
scene did not afford much evidence
upon which to proceed, so taking the
two pieces of severed telephone wire,
Constable Strouts returned to Burns
Lake to await arrival of his senior
officer, Sergeant J. Henry of Smithers.

Arriving on February 22, Detec-
tive-Corporal A. T. Lashmar of Diy-
isional Headquarters at Prince Ru-
pert, in company with Sergent
Henry and Constable Strouts visited
the scene of the attempted murder.
With the trio of police officers, was
one of the two Indians, Albert
Michel

Again the entire area was closely
examined for clues which might af-
ford evidence of what had happened.
Though some information had been
obtained from Albert Michel, this
had to be corroborated. It was rain-
ing heavily and some of the surface |
snow had melted .There had been
a fall of snow since the near tragedy,
but the roadside still showed where
the two Indians had stopped to have |
lunch. Pieces of soda-biscuit wrap-
per, and an empty can which had
contained stew were revealed by the
rain, besides some coarse fibres where
the two youths had been seated.

Investigation showed the two
young men had left Topley on the
morning of February 19 after mak-
ing a few purchases. They had
bought some provisions and numer-
ous bottle of vanilla extract. When
about a mile out of the village, they
commenced tippling from the bottles
of extract. No one else was on the
road, as they trudged along followed
by Williams’ dog. The dog had a
small harness on his back with a
packsack in which Williams had
stowed some light gear. As they
walked up the road the effects of
vanilla extract became more evident.
At a point close to Nine-mile, both
had stopped beside the road for

lunch. After drinking ten bottles of
vanilla extract between one-mile and

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