ag notified Headquarters. “Chasing r toward Louise Bridge . . . Looks like ‘one that made getaway on Alfred vem yinging recklessly around corners, the ued auto roared across Louise Bridge headed toward East Kildonan with Burr xing grimly on its tail. Jith the latest alarm from Headquarters kling through the night, cruiser cars, ring Kildonan, swung into action. ough the snow-covered streets of the sy suburb the chase continued—roaring my-guns and screaming sirens bringing + HUNTER BROS. LTD. Department Store Groceries, Hardware and Men’s Clothing Chinaware, Radios, Refrigerators ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES Ladies’ Shoes, Hosiery and Lingerie Rossland, B.C. WILLIAM BAKER LTD. Rossland, B. C. Real Estate Stocks and Bonds NOTARY PUBLIC Insurance elephone 118 P.O. Drawer 150 CITY GARAGE A. F. HUBNER, Proprietor EXPERT REPAIRS TO ALL MAKES OF CARS Gasoline, Oils, Tires, Tubes and Accessories ROSSLAND, B.C. ORWELL HOTEL MISS H. HOLMES, Proprietress ‘ULLY LICENSED DINING ROOM COMFORTABLE ROOMS ROSSLAND, B. C. frightened faces to the windows of road- side dwellings as the fugitive car ate up the road, with half a dozen police cars hurtling in pursuit. As the fleeing auto sped down Gateway Street a police car turned out of Wolf. A tommy-gun roared. The tattoo of striking bullets and crash of splintered glass echoed through the frosty air. With a grinding screech the car swerved, recovered, lurched drunkenly ahead and plunged into the snow-filled ditch. With levelled automatics, Burr and Young closed in. Snarling, his eyes blazing with sullen hate, a square man of about twenty-five staggered from the bullet-rid- dled coach, his hands above his head, his tousled hair hanging over his chalk-white face. Handcuffed, and guarded by officers from the pursuing autos, the prisoner watched with sullen anger as his captors searched There was the roar of a revolver and police forcing entrance found Mike the Horse lying gasping out his life on the bed shown above. (Official photo.) the car. On the front seat lay a loaded 45 revolver with a box of twenty shells beside it. On the floor was a sawed-off shotgun. Under the rear seat Burr dis covered a number of 1940 licence plates, including the one bearing the number spot- ted by Alf Manning near the Atamonchuk dwelling. In the back were piled a grey, bloodstained overcoat and a brown suede windbreaker with bullet holes in the shoul- G * der; a shirt and vest perforated with bullet holes, and a blood stained pillow case. On the back seat a portable radio was tuned to VYW, police short-wave station. Rushed to Headquarters, the prisoner gave his name as John Andrusiak, of Old Kildonan, but refused to give any explan- ation as to the identity er whereabouts of the owner of the bloodstained clothing. As Sunday dawned, Royal Canadian Mounted Police throughout the province had snapped into action. Every highway leading from the city was being patrolled by R.C.M.P. motorcycles and patrol cars, _ while from Headquarters at Portage and Greenwood twenty Mounties had reported to Chief Smith, offering their assistance. BURMA CAFE COMFORTABLE ROOMS GOOD MEALS Hot and Cold Water Confectionery, Cigarettes, Cigars and Tobaccos CRESTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA MESSINGER MOTORS CRESTON, B.C. FIRESTONE TIRES SHELL GAS TOWING Fully Equipped Shop for Tourists Il. H. C. Agents Phone 99 or 103 Limited Manufacturers and Dealers in Boxes of All Kinds Rough and Dressed Lumber Cedar Posts and Poles Building Supplies * Creston, British Columbia Creston Sawmills Sheep Creek Gold Mines Limited _ (N. P. L.) Subsidiary Operations: PARADISE MINE ZINCTON MINE @ SHEEP CREEK, B. C. | | SPEED | THE VICTORY BUY MORE BONDS CRESTON HOTEL CRESTON, B. C. o0 FULLY LICENSED Dining Room in Connection Headquarters for Tourists when in Creston (a) (I Proprietor: JOHN SHEAN tTEENTH EDITION Page Seventy-five