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oe

-e. He say, ‘A little one won't hurt
’ After that I don’t know nothing,
on snow; get up, hold rifle; go back
‘abin. I see light, holler for Eugene.
y scare. Never know much. Go to
p,” said Prince in a spat of words.

fe clung to his story, describing how

ext morning I go where I lay in
w; then I see Eugene. I stay in
h then go to cabin, then I go again,
er to Eugene but he never move. I
> rifle. It loaded. Too bad, I think,
shoot nothing,” said Prince.

lis tale of the second tragedy was
epic of northern vengeance. He had
ted overnight, then was challenged by
suffer.

Where is Gene?”

He maybe go little way up river.”
He can’t go up river before me,”
cely replied Hans, his suspicions fully
used,

dis threatening tones led Prince to
Messmer was dead.

‘Maybe you just shot for nothing?”
suffer hopefully asked, then as the
lian indicated such was not the case,
ou better go way, I don’t want you
cabin.”

‘You please help me all you can. Got
police. Me sorry,” pleaded Prince.

‘I start home,” Prince recalled, “go

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about 200 yards, look back; see Hans
where trail go on east bank. Hans shoot
at me, miss two times. ;

“T get mad. Take rifle off case, shoot
two times. He holler. I wait.”

Then came an episode in the recital
almost incredulous to the listeners who
later testified how the ‘“‘Coyote,” as he
was known to Indian and white man
alike, described :

With Pfeuffer seriously wounded in
the thigh, Prince had continued on past
him to the cabin, prepared lunch, then
“T see him sitting on log. Hans wave
me help him. I did not say anything.
I stay in cabin. On the 24th I come
back. Hans lying on ice. I go past him.
Took snowshoes, then don’t want them.
I leave one at body and other I throw
in river.”

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The admissions made the men gathered
in the small cabin determined to get
Prince “outside” and they hurried prep-
arations for the take-off, only to have
a line squall below Finlay Forks force
them back, it being then decided to re-
visit the scene of the crimes.

CoNnvICTION APPEARED DouBTFUL

Sergt. Clark recognized how a strong
defence could be built around both deaths

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(Left) Alex Prince, nomadic “Coyote” of the B. C. Northland and (right) as the tough, dapper
product of eighteen months “outside” awaiting his three hearings at Courts of Assize.

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