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s—and discovered that they had lost
trail completely.
eaching the lane behind the block, they
ed in vain for the fugitive to re-appear.
ess and coatless, a man, apparently a
nt, strolled through the back door,
Is in pockets, intent on watching the
ress of the chase. Casually he saun-
1 past one detective after another.
Jenly he broke into a run. From the
er of his eye an officer caught the
ing movement, his hand shot up, his
descended and the coatless figure
wled in a crumpled heap on the snow.
deuffed and whisked into a nearby
d car, he was rushed to Police Head-
‘ters.
funted like a hare, the harried man had
wed into the basement, sped through
empty laundry, heard the thud of pur-
g feet, whipped off his coat and. hat,
into a laundry basket and covered him-
with clothing until he thought the hue

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and cry was over. Then, with the audacity
of desperation, he had assumed the role of
tenant, and if his nerve hadn’t broken
would probably have made his getaway.
He was identified as John Ashton Barnett.
It was found that, only three weeks before,
he’d been granted bail of $8,000 by Magis-
trate A. G. Campbell in connection with a
charge of store-breaking at Elphinstone. He
indignantly denied any connection with
Atamonchuk, or the Saturday night tra-
gedy. His alibi was subjected to a check-up,
while the .45 shells dropped in the chase
were forwarded to Dr. Glen Campbell, bal-
listics expert, for comparison with the .45

The funeral of Constable Norman Stewart threw
a dark pall over the city of Winnipeg and brought
sorrow to a humble home.

slugs which had been taken from Officer
McDonald’s body.

Convinced that Atamonchuk was the
leader of the bandit gang, and that some
slip-up in his getaway plans had caused
him to risk a visit to his home at midnight
Saturday, Inspector Melville ordered a

check-up of all garages and filling stations. ~

At Harry Watson’s garage in Fort Garry,
five miles from the murder scene, detectives
located an unclaimed car found to have
been stolen.

A trail led to 513 Montrose Street,
where Clifford Mallet told of being stopped
in his truck at 11:30 on Saturday night
by two men in a car just west of Fort
Garry. They asked him for a push into
the city. Pushing the auto as far as Wat-
son's service station, he had given the men
—whose descriptions tallied with those of
Barnett and Atamonchuk—a lift as far as
Broadway.

Evard Jansen, a taxi driver, whom In

spector Melville had located on St. Mary’s
Avenue, a few blocks west of the Radio
Building, added what seemed like a further
link in the growing chain of evidence. “Two
men called for a car at 9:45, Saturday
night,” he said, “and asked me to drive
towards Fort Street to pick up a friend who
was drunk. A block from Fort they told
me to return and at Carlton I picked up a
man who was hiding behind a tree. At
Ellice and Young they paid me off.”

A call at the Atamonchuk house on Al
fred Avenue convinced the Inspector that
he was on the right track. Catherine Scleide-
witz admitted that the bloodstained clothing
might have belonged to her brother, “Mike
the Horse”. By midnight, Monday, “Mike
the Horse” was still at large, while a check-
up of doctors, hospitals and drug stores
failed to furnish the faintest clue. Again
word of the reward was broadcast.

With Detective Sergeant Harry Alexan-
der beside him, Detective Mulholland
headed the heavy cruiser car north along
Main Street to check outbound freight and
cattle cars and follow up leads brought in
by the overnight dragnet. It was nearing
four o’clock on Tuesday morning, the third
day of the search, and stars still winked
coldly down on the sleeping city. Even
Main Street, with its flickering electric

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