posed and new ones named in their places.
Superintendent Cummiski agreed to this
and about the middle of December there
was a meeting held in Ashcroft. The object
of this meeting was to determine the ad-
visability of giving up Paul and Spintlum.
No white men were to be present at the
meeting.

There are those who will question the
wisdom of the law making a deal with che
Indians. They will ask why the police did
not capture the outlaws instead of asking
the chiefs to give them up. The answer is
obvious. It was not only cheaper, but more
expedient to have the killers handed over.
There was another effect also to be con-
sidered. If the police captured the outlaws
it would be a more or less tacit admission
that it was quite all right for the various
chiefs to aid lawbreakers. This was a situa-
tion that could not be tolerated. If the
chiefs were made to understand that they
were responsible for the conduct of their
charges a great deal would have been ac-
complished. So far as the outlaws were
concerned, though it would cost money and
take time, they would be captured. They
could not hope to go free indefinitely.

On the 15th of December the chiefs
called Chief Constable Burr and asked him
if he could get in touch with Superinten-
dent Cummiski. Burr said he could. It was
then stipulated that Paul and Spintlum
would be handed over to him on certain
conditions. The outlaws were now in their
custody but there were some reservations
attached to the surrender.

Among these were that the killers were
not to be handcuffed. They were to be
provided with counsel. A medal must be
struck off and presented to the chiefs who
engineered the surrender to indicate what
they had done to uphold law and order.

Pursuir ENpDs

At 4 o'clock on the afternoon of Decem-
ber 30th, 1912, Superintendent Cummiski,
in company with five picked chiefs, went
to the Bonaparte Reserve near Ashcroft.
No police were present. Here, without
ceremony, Moses Paul and Paul Spintlum
were handed over to him. The great pur-
suit had ended without further expense or

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loss of life. The policy of the police had
been vindicated.

It was evident that the strain had told
heavily on the two outlaws. Both were thin
and nervous. Moses Paul fell ill. He wasted
away and died in gaol.

Reverse side of Indian Medal. This one was
for Chief Jimmy Retasket of Lillooet.

Paul Spintlum lived to be tried, found
guilty and sentenced to hang. On the morn-
ing of December 12th, 1913, he left his cell
and walked slowly to the scaffold erected
in the yard of the Kamloops gaol and there
took his place on the trap. As the hangman
placed the noose over his neck he spoke in
a clear, calm voice.

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“Goodbye friends,” he said, “I die for
another man’s crime.”

And with those words on his lips, Paul
Spintlum left this earth.

It seems strange to place any credence
in old Strawnick’s curse but of the six
men who rode out of Clinton with the
posse on the day of Kindnesses’s death,
five have died. George Carson died as a
result of an automobile accident; Forest
Loring died of pneumonia; Jimmie Boyd
died as a result of wounds following the
Great War. Charlie Truran, the man who
gave the alarm, died. That is the record.
Think of it as you will.

THE SHOULDER STRAP is indebted to Mr. Louis
Labourdais, M.L.A., for many of the intimate
details in this narration of the Paul and Spint-
lum case. Famed not only as a journalist,
Mr. Labourdais is an authority on Cariboo
history —EDIToR.

THAT HAT

A well-known judge dined recently at an
hotel, where the man who takes care of the
hats is celebrated for his memory about the
ownership of headgear.

“How do you know that is my hat?” the
judge asked as his silk hat was presented to
him.

“T don’t know it, sir,” said the man.

“Then why do you give it to me?” in-
quired the bewildered judge.

“T say I do not know if it is your hat, but
you gave it to me,” replied the man, without
moving a muscle of his face.

MEASUREMENT

THE Police Cadets had had a gruelling half-
hour of squad drill, and after a few minutes
of “stand easy” were called to “attention.”
All obeyed except one youth, who continued
to gaze at the Sergeant.

“What's the matter with you, Bronc?”
roared the Sergeant. “A penny for your
thoughts.”

‘T was just measuring you up, Sergeant,”
was the reply.

“Oh,” sneered the Sergeant. “I suppose
your father is a tailor, eh?”

“No,” replied the Bronce. “He’s an under-
taker, Sergeant.”

Secretary

A. W. SMITH

President

J. HORROCKS

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