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In company with Fred Chase and Fred
Hasler, well-known trappers, who knew
Croteau, together with a coroner, the group
left Dawson Creek at noon for a long,
tedious journey. They travelled 100 miles to
Eswein’s ranch and were there joined by

Dawson Creek with considerable difficulty,
due to a sudden winter thaw.

That is the story. Merely a routine case,
and investigation. But Constable Devlin
possessed a camera, and he and members
of the expedition took pictures. The result

. . . Patrol nearly ended. The body has been transported across the
treacherous snow-covered waters.

Ted Strand, another trapper. The party
snowshoed to Callihason Creek, 50 miles up-
stream, and en route engaged Pete Calio, his
toboggan, and team of five dogs, the only
dog train in the district.

They didn’t arrive at Croteau’s cabin un-
til February 13, after two weeks of battling
the elements of nature. They examined the

Constable Devlin successfully fords the icy
waters of Pine River.

body, and found that death was due to
natural causes. An inquest was unnecessary.
The party then made their way back to

is a different story.

The photographs show danger at every
turn, drama at every corner, death hovering
near.

Only one slip was necessary to turn a
police patrol into another northern tragedy.

Thus is the saga of a northern patrol
recorded by the magic eye of the camera.

MAGISTRATE COMMENDS
POLICE BRAVERY

AMONG ITEMS of interest in the Com-
missioner’s 1937 report is an account of
how Constable S. E. Menzies of Port Ren-
frew detachment upheld the best traditions
of the Force while attempting the arrest of
one Jackson Graves. Called to quieten a
family squabble in the Graves’ household
at Port Renfrew, the constable—in the
struggle with Graves—had his revolver
jerked out of his holster. Graves fired four
shots at the constable in a small room at a
distance of less than ten feet. He was sub-
sequently committed for trial on a charge of
murder. Magistrate Hall, of Victoria, in
referring to the incident, said:

“Tt was disclosed that the constable’s first
thought was to get in front of Graves’ wife
so that she would not be shot. The act of
the constable in considering the safety of the
woman before his own, was, of course,
proper; but that he should do it as a matter
of course, and without thinking he was doing
anything in particular, seemed to me worthy
of particular commendation.”

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