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earlier, would have prevented this shock-
ing tragedy.

The trapper had been at their home on
Christmas Eve when Pete Couture men-
tioned that Ambroise had left the station
with a parcel of liquor. Jumping to his
feet, Desjarlais had ordered Emma and
her mother to go with him—he was going
to get something to drink for Christmas.
Too frightened to refuse, they accompa-
nied him to the Chaboyer home and stayed
outside. They heard Chaboyer refuse to
give Desjarlais any liquor. Loud voices

followed, and the sound of a violent
quarrel.
Mrs. Richards had dashed for the

bush, but Emma, spellbound, had remain-
ed rooted to the spot, gazing through the
window as the trapper struck down Cha-
boyer with an axe. As the assailant fled,
Mrs. Richards sneaked fearfully in,
covered the victim’s dead body with a
coat and hurried home with Emma. Des-
jarlais had warned them with coarse oaths
that he’d kill the whole family if Mrs.
Richards talked.

The door creaked open, admitting
Supeene. “I’ve just had a talk with Mrs.
LeRoux,” he remarked. “Her son’s been

working in a lumber camp at Le Pas
under the name of Joe LeFleur. He'll
be in town tomorrow.” He tossed a grey
bundle on the table. “Take a look at this

. found it under the floor boards of
Desjarlais’ cabin.” Schepers picked up a
long grey, hooded capote of blanket
cloth, the kind sold by traders to the

Indians. Stained with the dirt of the
muskeg, it was matted here and there
with slivers of bark and pine needles.

“Well,” Pete sighed, “I guess our
search for the hooded phantom is over.”

Next day Armand LeRoux reported
to Constable Schepers, and admitted he'd
been in mortal dread of Desjarlais. Visit-
ing the Chaboyer cabin on Christmas Eve,
he tried the door, then seeing two women
lurking in the shadows, he’d jumped in
the cutter and driven on. Next day Des-
jarlais had waylaid him and threatened
to kill him if he told of anything he’d
seen.

Faced with this threat, and fearful the
police intended to arrest him for the
murder, Armand had fled to Northern
Saskatchewan. The grey coat that had
cast suspicion on him, he had, he insisted,
actually found in the snow beside the
roadway, as he had already stated.

So ended the triple tragedy of St.
Laurent. A tragedy wherein two of the
unfortunate victims had signed their own
death warrants when they permitted the
fear of a swaggering braggart to tie their
tongues, thus. preventing the law from
taking its inexorable course in extirpating
a menace to themselves and the com-
munity.

Note: To protect innocent parties the names:
Armand LeRoux, and Yvonne Touchet, have
been substituted for the originals.

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FINGERPRINT KIS

A FURTHER step moder nizing and
streamlining crime detection methods has
been taken by the Montreal Police De
partment with the issuance to members of
the detective bureau of emergency finger.
print lifting kits.

City detectives are now receiving les. |
sons on fingerprint lifting from their con-
freres in the identification division, and |
fifty have already successfully passed eX
aminations.

Inspector Alphonse Cantin, in charge
of the detective bureau, said the use by
members of his department of the emerg-
ency kits will greatly relieve the indentifi-
cation bureau personnel who could barely
answer a fraction of requests for finger-
print lifting.

The kits contain three kinds of powder,
a rubber “lifter,” a duster, a magnifying
glass and special forms for the re-transfer
of prints on paper. The classification of
fingerprints, however, will still be left
to experts of the identification bureat
directed by Det.-Lieut. Marcel Meunier.

AN old gentleman went to a Christ
mas party, and being somewhat deaf, was
unable to join in the general conversation. —
A kind-hearted lady, wishing to make |
him feel at home, said: “Do you like
bananas?" To which he replied: “No, 1

prefer the old-fashioned nightshirt.”

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