side the body was a large cavity melted
into the ice, with numerous dog hairs
to indicate that the Newfoundland had
kept an unceasing vigil beside its master
since the time of death, except for trips
to assuage its hunger by devouring car-
casses of game left near the cabin for its
food.

Its devotion so touched the posse that
they made sure the dog was flown back
to Finlay Forks.

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A more disconcerting discovery re-
sulted when the plane returned with
MacGuire.

“That’s not the body,” he exclaimed.
“The one we found was face down and
north of the cabin.”

The first body was 1024 yards south
of the home cabin with snowshoe tracks
continuing down-river a further 320
yards to where a snowshoe was frozen in
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The searchers sure enough found a
second body around a bend in the river,
also frozen in the ice, and clad with
moccasins, heavy khaki pants, skull cap,
brown checked mackinaw, grey flannel
work shirt—a distance of 826 yards
from the cabin.

Const. McKenney was puzzled. It was
common knowledge that Hans Pfeuffer
“worked” the north stretch of the trap-
line, Eugene Messmer the south; yet the
respective bodies were the reverse of
being where they could have been ex-
pected to be.

It was impossible to judge how many
wounds lay under the frozen patches of
blood filming the clothing.

The absence of firearms of any des-
cription also puzzled the Constable as
he mused, “They never used the trail
on the ice to trap, outside of a few
wolves around the cabin; what were
they doing on the river?”

He assigned two woodsmen, Alfred
Sharp and William McPhee, to cut trail
on all snowshoe tracks around the cabin,
then undertook the grisly chore of chop-
ping from the ice the two bodies, which
required two plane trips being made to
Finlay Forks. ;

In the interval before the second trip
was completed, trappers present at Finlay
Forks from 900 square miles to attend
a fur sale being conducted by two buyers
got a glimpse of the grotesquely frozen
body of the first victim brought in and
almost ran amok with rage.

Their potential victim was a swagger-
ing, tiny Indian who had sold furs al-
though not known to have a trapline.

Const. McKenney stepped out of the
Fairchild plane into an almost forgotten
phase of Western history — crude fron-
tier justice, with even a cottonwood tree
to complete the illusion.

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“Get the hell out of here, Harry,” he
was told, “We've got a job to do.”

“You know better than that,’ he re-
plied, “I’ve got a job to do, too.”

“Well, get that bastard out of here,
or we won't be responsible,” to which
Const. McKenney shook his head. “The

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