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MURDER ON THE YUKON

* By Guy LAWRENCE

1904, Operator Russell Hall of

the Yukon Telegraph Service
was placidly sitting in his small office
listening to the busy clicking of his
telegraph relay.

This did not prevent him from
gazing out of the small window and
watching the traffic pass up and down
the mighty Yukon River, a sight
which considerably brightened his
lonely station. This day he noted
that one of the many sternwheel
steamers then in operation had
passed on its way up-river. Also, on
the far side of the river a small row-
boat had drifted down stream with
three men in it. He paid very little
attention to the small boat and its
occupants, but just filled his pipe and
went on listening to the wire hum-
ming.

About two hours later he was
rudely awakened from his reveries
when two women and a young man

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burst into the office. All three of the
visitors seemed in a very excited state
of mind, and the two women at least
were both talking at once. The young
man remained silent but it was easy
to see that he was in a very nervous
condition.

It took Hall a moment or two to
grasp what all the excitement was
about, but finally he elicited the fact
from one of the women, that the man
before him, a young Swede, had been
shot in the head by one of his part-
ners. Now Hall took stock of the
young Swede carefully, and he noted
that he was standing in his stockinged
feet and holding his boots in his
hands. Taking a closer look at him,
he also found a large protuberance at
the back of his right ear where it was
evident that a bullet still lodged.

The women clamored for Hall to
telegraph for the Mounted Police at
once, but Hall thought it best to get
more details first, so he asked the
young Swede to tell his story.

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When the Swede got started talking
he couldn’t stop, and although he was
still visibly shaken and spoke in
rather a disjointed fashion, Hall was
able to gather the following facts:—

The young fellow had recently
come North to the Yukon with two
other men whom he had met in
Seattle. One of these men was about
his own age and also of his nationality
whom he had met in a beer parlor.
The second man was quite elderly,
had heard them conversing together,
and suggested that he also go along
with them, as he had been to the far
north before. They therefore formed
a partnership, although the old man
appeared to be practically broke.

Arriving at Lake Bennett they
either purchased or built a rough row-
boat to continue down the Yukon

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