f PATROL ENDED

Pictures Show Danger and Drama of Northern Patrols—Method of Police Inves-
tigation—Death of Lonely Trapper Probed—Two Weeks Required to Reach
Cabin—Take Coroner Along—Death Always Just Around the Corner

STORIES OF the rigours and hardships conduct an investigation in the Arctic trapper, had been found dead in his cabin,

which British Columbia Provincial Police wastes. some 200 miles away.
officers undergo in their Northern Patrols On January 31, 1934, word was received Constable J. C. Devlin, on patrol in that

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Constable J. C. Devlin, B.C. Provincial Police, with the dog tzam used
on the death patrol.

Constable Devlin started to cross Pine River,
leading the faithful dogs.

: The party are forced to lay brush boughs across a treacherous part of the
have been recounted many times, but with river on their return trip.

this striking series of pictures, taken by a
member of the party, THE SHOULDER STRAP from the N.C.O. of the Peace River district district was despatched to investigate the
shows for the first time just how the police that a man named Zeb Croteau, an old case, and bring the body in to civilization.

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