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Arriving traders with their dog-teams brought first inkling of the medicine murders to the
Hudson's Bay fort—Bachelor’s Hall tn background.

into my room he closed the door.
When he emerged his frosty eyes be-
tokened trouble. Next morning when
the dog-team carrying the winter mail
across the snowy expanse of Lake
Winnipeg departed it carried to Com-
missioner Perry at Regina a letter
telling of the medicine murder at
Sandy Lake. In the chill light of early
dawn another dog-team left the
barracks. Ahead, on hissing snowshoes,
mushed a mahogany-faced Cree and
behind the dogs-sled jogged Constable
O'Neill, bound for Island Lake to
gather evidence.

The short, cold, dazzling days
slipped by. Then, one day, a skin-clad
runner on curved snowshoes appeared
through a curtain of spinning flakes
and handed Sergeant Smith a grease-
stained letter. It was from O’Neill at
Island Lake, and confirmed his worst
fears. Pecequan and his band of
murdering Saulteaux were guilty of
over twenty medicine murders. They
were outlawed by surrounding tribes,

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who looked with horror on this reign
of terror and witchcraft.

Time to End the Rule of Witch
Doctors

Sergeant “Daisy” Smith routed
Corporal Cashman from the guard-
room. “I’ve a job that’s going to keep
you hoofing it for a while,” he read
out O’Neill’s report. “Pecequan and
Chief Mistainninew, his brother, have
run amok... . And the Commissioner
figures it’s time to put an end to the
rule of these witch doctors. You'll get
together three dog-teams, leave with
Moses Gore and Tommy Garson, pick
up O'Neill at Island Lake, arrest the

“medicine man and chief and bring

them here for trial. Jimmy Kirkness,
who knows their lingo, will go along
as interpreter and guide. These
Saulteaux are a tough bunch, pagan
to the core, and many of them have
never seen a white man so — be
careful. And” his voice grew icy, “if
you let me down — God help you!”

His buckskin-clad drivers urged on
their slant-eyed huskies with caribou-
hide whips. Cashman headed through
the snow-drifted forests towards the
distant hunting grounds of the outlaw
Saulteaux. Day after day they toiled
on through mounting drifts, their
faces seared with knife-edged_bliz-
zards. At night they dug a hole in the
snow, and curled up in their bedrolls

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