onald McLean, father of the McLean boys.

After a preliminary hearing at Kamloops,

ey were subsequently tried for the murder
- Ussher and Kelly at the New West-
inster Assize in March, 1880. Found
uilty, they were sentenced to death. On
ypeal they were granted a new trial and
sain, in November, were found guilty.

Archie McLean

At eight o'clock on Monday morning,
January 31st, 1881, in the gaol yard at
New Westminster, Allan, Charles and
Archie McLean with Alex Hare paid the

supreme penalty for their crimes.
a

Today Ussher Lake, near Kamloops,

Photos: B. C. Archives.

a i :

Allan McLean

commemorates the name of the courageous
Provincial Police officer who died at the
hands of the McLean gang. The manner of
his passing added fresh lustre to the long
honour roll of the oldest territorial police
force in Canada—the British Columbia
Provincial Police.

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