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borrowed five dollars from proprietor of
Fotel Hazelton and got dinner there.
About fifteen minutes after dinner
Grinko came there and had his dinner,
and after dinner we had some beer and
Grinko got from Hotel about ten bottles
of whiskey and beer and went through
back door to New Hazelton. I remain in
Hotel and shortly after I got into trouble,
after which I was sick for two days in
same Hotel after two days I went to
New Hazelton and found out that
Grinko had been drinking in the Pion-
eer Hotel with the proprietor. Shortly
after I asked Grinko to take job with
me. Grinko told me you can go to
devil I have better company than you
are, my company is with English people.

“On my way to Norman McLeods I
meet in train George Syrotuck Section
Foreman. I told him my story he advised
me to go and tell the Police, so in
Smithers he went with me to Police and
interpreted the story.

“At time of robbery Grinko told me
he had mask on his face and that he done
shooting with rifle and wounded man
with it.

“Grinko was assistant to Chief of
Police in —, Siberia, he had some trouble
there and was sentenced to prison on
Sachalin Island. After Russo-Japanese
war that part of Island became portion of
Japan, so all prisoners was free and
Grinko was free too. After this he was
delivering milk in near city of Vladi-
vostock, Siberia.

“My original name is Onufry Procenko
but I call myself George Smith because
I need no spelling for this name and I
cannot read and do not know how to
spell my original name.”

However, in spite of this apparently
incriminating statement it proved to be
impossible to link the implicated man to
the first New Hazelton Bank robbery, al-
though at the time he was actually in the
Provincial Police gaol in the town. Too,
events of the succeeding twenty-four
hours tended to sidetrack the pursuit of
the five bandits.

Page One Hundred and Eighteen

As this report followed its slow course
in the mails towards Victoria, another
and more urgent message overtook it and
arrived on the desk of Supt. Colin S.
Campbell.

This was the message :

27 vrm
81 NL via ash Hazelton BC
11l6a April 8th

C. S. Campbell Victoria

Seven men apparently all Asentines robbed
Union Bank New Hazelton yesterday of
five hundred dollars in five dollar Union
Bank notes four hundred dollars in new
two dollar notes two hundred and fifty
dollars mutilated notes one hundred and
fifty dollars mixed gold coins. Two rob-
bers killed three wounded one in goal
holding one suspect one robber at large
with money. Posse still searching for him.
Bank clerk Fenton got hit with one buck-
shot no other citizen hurt. Chief Owen
arrived tonight.

E. Gammon

It had been a mild spring day in New
Hazelton on April 7. In the morning
numerous townsfolk picked their ways
cautiously across the muddy, unpaved
streets. Mingled among them were many
temporary town dwellers who sought work
in mines, in sawmills or on construction
projects, or who were employed in the
building of the Grand Trunk Pacific Rail-
way to the coast.

Consequently very little attention was
attracted to a group of roughly dressed
men, several of whom were bearded as
was common among labourers as well as

Isolated position of the Bank.

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