At dusk the plane landed at Six Mile
ake, outside Prince George, where
sergt. Clark met Const. McKenney and
same Warden Albert J. Jank, whose trip
‘rom Fort Ware was interrupted by the
jouble tragedies, and who was to prove
sf inestimable help.

Impressed with the need of a speedy
-eturn. Sergt. Clark and his staff laboured
j;ntil 2 a.m. provisioning the plane for
, dawn flight as the two bodies were
‘eft in the mortuary of Harold Assman
to thaw out, a process requiring two
days. i
The post-mortem by Dr. Carl Ewert
disclosed Messmer had been shot twice
from behind, first through the liver and
right lung, then had been given a coup

muscles along the ribs up under the
shoulder blade.

“It could only have been fired as Mess-
mer lay face down in the slush, guarding
his face with folded arms from shell
ice; the position in which his body was
frozen,” Dr. Ewert deduced.

The second autopsy exposed a fracture
in Pfeuffer’s right thigh from a high-
powered rifle bullet that had drilled on
out, the jagged hones forming an oblique
fracture, four and a half inches long,
which had lacerated the thigh muscles.

Yet the pitiful tracks in the snow had
shown that Pfeuffer crawled and dragged
himself along the ice nearly half a mile
despite the agonizing wound. Nausea
had gripped him. He had been sick. Yet

Clad for sub-zero travel, Sergt. George H. Clark, in charge of Fort George sub-division, B.C.

Police, is seen with pack on back, at left; Prov. Const. Harry L. McKenney, in back; Vi illiam

Smith, mechanic for Canadian Pacific Air Lines’ pilot, Capt. Pat Carey; and Alex Prince,
enroute out of the Northland to justice.

de grace, although dying almost instantly.
This gave the Crown its staunchest evi-
dence.

Corp. Norman O. DeWitt, in charge
of the city detachment, was given a tiny
particle that remained of a copper jacket
from a bullet splintered in the upper
margin of the shoulder joint. It had

pierced the flesh in line with the ninth
rib and scored a path through back

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he struggled desperately to reach the
sanctuary of their cabin.

This thought was in the minds of
officers as they watched Dr. Ewert probe
for other particles without avail.

Coroner M. W. Skinner adjourned

the inquests after juries had viewed
the bodies, pending return of the posse
that had headed north on March 14th.

It had reached Finlay Forks where

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