ragged moustache, he had the plains-
man’s pucker around his eyes. Eyes of
ice blue, that stared into your soul.
Short and lightly built, he weighed
under 140 pounds, he had a peculiar
quiet reserve about him. He spoke
quietly with just a hint of a southern
accent. He denied all knowledge of
the train robbery, and many of his
friends around Aspen Grove just
couldn’t believe that old George
Edwards would be mixed up in such
a thing.

Train Robber Preached Sermon

“There must be some mistake!”
vehemently contended one old lady.
“Why, Mr. Edwards was only out at
our place two weeks ago. I remember
it was a Sunday, and when the
preacher didn’t turn up, Mr. Edwards
preached the sermon—and a good
one, too!”

There were others who told how
kind George Edwards was to the
young folk. He was never happier
than when he had a _ bunch of
youngsters around him, telling them
tales of the old west.

To this day there are old timers in
B.C.’s interior who knew old George
Edwards well, and they swear by his
integrity.

However, the train robbers duly
appeared in court, and after listening
to all the evidence, a jury agreed on
their guilt. And Mr. Justice Irving

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sentenced Edwards and Dunn to life
imprisonment and Colquhoun got
twenty-five years.

Recognized as Bill Miner—Most
Daring Stage Robber of His Time

And then, just before the robbers
were escorted to the federal peni-

Cst. Bill Fernie played a lone hand in tracking
the bandits. Here he is shown as an inspector
with Sgt. Dick Bowen.

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tentiary at New Westminster, the
cattle country got the shock of its life!
Warden Kelly of California’s San
Quentin prison happened to be in
Kamloops and promptly recognized
old George Edwards as “Bill Miner,”
one of the most daring stage and train
robbers of his generation, a man
whose exploits ranked with those of
the Youngers, the Daltons and Jesse
James.

The identification was clinched
when Kelly told the police at Kam-
loops to turn back Edwards’ right
shirt cuff and look for the tattoo of a
dancing girl. It was there alright.

After serving twenty years train
robber Shorty Dunn was paroled, and
subsequently met his death by drown-
ing in a lonely northern B.C. river.

What happened to Colquhoun is
anybody’s guess; perhaps his first
brush with the law was his last.

Caught by Gold Fever

But their leader, Bill Miner, had
such an amazing career that to get the
full story we have to go back to 1843
and Bowling Green, Kentucky, where
he was born, the son of a prosperous
and law-abiding farmer. He attended
school until he was 16, and then when
stories of gold and excitement in the
west filtered back to Kentucky, young
Miner caught the fever and headed
west.

Through Missouri and across the
Nations country until he landed in

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