“Do you know Miner?”

“I ought to,” Elliott retorted crisply.
“JT was in charge of the train he held up.”

Joseph Pflilin, chef on the dining car
said that he heard two shots and after a
while he looked out of the dining car
window and saw the bandits, or at least
two of them, run towards Shuswap Lake
and get into a boat. More than five men
were in the boat, he said and he saw them
row across the lake. Since the time was
midnight it is hard to say just how this
remarkable feat of observation was ac-
complished, but it serves to show what the
investigators were facing when it came to
sifting out evidence and informaion.

ROBBERS AFTER RICH HAUL

While others were busily engaged in
the hunt for the bandits, several detectives
were ferreting out the motive for holding up

rome Saar

that particular train. Train robbers, they
reasoned, usually made sure that the train
they were going to hold up carried plenty
of loot to make the risk worth while. Yet,
had they obtained the registered mail
pouches on Number 97, they would not
have secured enough to pay them for their
trouble.

A checkup with the Dominion Express
Company soon showed the motive. The
bandits were after a shipment of bullion
destined for the Orient. That shipment
had gone ahead on Number 5, just 25
minutes before Number 97. The Dominion
Express Company carried valuables only
on two trains, Number 1 and Number 5.

If the bandits were after bullion, they
had missed it. But they would have been
no better off if they had caught the right
train. For instead of gold, the shipment
consisted of 6,000 pounds of silver lead

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$4,000.00 REWARD $4,000.00

The Government of the Province of British Columbia hereby: offers a reward of
TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS for the arrest and conviction of
WILLIAM HANEY, who, on the night of the 28th day of June, 1909, near Ashcroft in
the said Province, shot and killed ore Isaac Decker, a Special Constable.

WILLIAM HANEY
PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IN 1896

In addition to the reward of
Two Thousand Five Hundred
Dollars, offered by the Govern-
ment of British Columbia,

The Canadian Pacific
Railway Co. offers a
further reward of
One Thousand Five
Hundred Dollars

making a total reward of Four
Thousand Dollars, payable on the
terms above mentioned,

WILLIAM HANEY
LATEST PHOTOGRAPH OBTAINABLE

Description of WILLIAM HANEY American

AGE—About thirty-eight years.
HEIGHT—Five feet eight inches.
WEIGHT— About 180 pounds.

Bui~p—Well built and muscular. Has slightly
swinging, lazy walk, from side to side like
a sailor; drags feet.

COMPLEXION—Medium.

HairR—Mixed with grey. Slightly bald on crown,
has ‘“‘cowlick” and usually combs hair back.
Forehead high at sides.

Wire any information to the undersigned.

EKvres—Blue, almost grey.

Facre—Broad, flat features. Nose normal between
eyes, but grows quite large at end—end of
nose red and fleshy. Large nostrils. Large

ears. TWO MOLES ON RIGHT CHEEK.

Hanps—Thick, fat hands; hair on hands quite
thick and coarse.

MarksS—Large mole on top of right shoulder.
Large vaccination mark on right upper arm.
One small scar back of head.

By Order,

Provincial Police Department,
Victoria, B. C.
3rd August, 1909.

WINTER EDITION

F. S. HUSSEY,

Superintendent, Provincial Police.

ingots and was in bars weighing approxi
mately 90 lbs. each. The aggregate value
would not have exceeded $3,000 and it
would have taken a pack train of at least
100 mules to carry the loot away.

Had they succeeded in stopping Number
5, they would have ran into trouble. Since
the last two train holdups the Dominion
Express Company's shipments had been
accompanied by several armed guards.

Abortive though the holdup had been,
the officials were angry. They were de
termined to put a stop to this sort of thing
on Canadian soil. They posted large re-
wards for the bandits, dead or alive, dead
preferred. Notices were placed every-
where, asking anyone with any information
at all to come forward.

Many came, but few had anything to
say that was worth while. The identity
of the bandits was a mystery. Not a clue
had been dropped. The only lead that was
obtained came from one of the trainmen
who said that he had seen some men
around Kamloops who had been wearing
shabby Stetson hats. He had recognized
one of these hats on one of the bandits.
But, he could not give the officers even a
partial description beyond the fact that
the bandit was a big man.

The wild country soon became honey-
combed with special officers. Keen-eyed
men, well armed, watched every trail and
road. Others watched the many rivers and
lakes.

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