ewis Colquhoun, who dropped school teaching for train robbery.

ikely directions rode posses of B.C.
-rovincial Police, cowhands, Indian
rackers and volunteers of all sorts.
B.C. Police and R.N.W.M.P.
Join in Gun Fight With Bandits
One Provincial Constable, Bull
‘ernie, playing a lone hand, tracked
he bandits for six days until he
potted their hideout in the wilds of

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“Shorty” Dunn.

Helped Miner hold up the C.P.R.
Limited near Kamloops in 1906. A Royal Northwest Mounted

Imperial

Policeman's bullet prevented nis escape.

the Douglas Lake country. Then he
contacted a squad of six Royal North-
west Mounted Policemen patrolling
nearby under Sergt. Wilson. The
troopers rode in and surrounded the
three gunmen as they sat around their
camp fire. As they were being ques-
tioned, one of the trio rolled swiftly
into a gully, at the same time drawing
his gun. A rapid exchange of shots
followed, and the man who showed
fight got shot in the leg. The other
two made no resistance.

When they were disarmed and
jailed, it was found they had only
netted $15 out of the robbery.

The man who resisted was identi-
fied as Thomas (“Shorty”) Dunn, a

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thickset beetle-browed cowhand with
a criminal record, who’d been punch-
ing cattle in the Merritt district.

The second man was a delicate,
studious-looking youth called Lewis
Colquhoun, an ex-school teacher from
Ontario, who had been drifting round
Central B.C. out of work, when he
met Dunn. He had never been in
trouble before.

Oldest of the three was 63-year-old
George Edwards, the leader of the
group and the man who held the
automatic on Engineer Callin. Well
known around the Aspen Grove dis-
trict of Merritt, Edwards looked a
typical old time western rancher or
prospector. Grizzled and grey with a

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