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The lonesome Mackenzie River ice road beneath the Northern Lights

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“DEMENTED TRAPPER KILLS CONSTABLE,” Kingston Whig-Standard. February 1 1932. Page 10. ---- Man Was Fleeing From-His Blown-up Cabin in the Arctic ---- EDMONTON, Feb. 1— Constable E. Millien was shot and killed by Albert Johnson, demented trapper, at a point 30 miles up the Rat River Saturday.

Details of the shooting reached Edmonton last night. It was reported to Aklavik by a portable radio with the patrol and the word then flashed to the city. 

The killing occurred in the rolling barrens of the upper Rat River about 30 miles from where the stream flows into the rushing Mackenzie, according to the meagre radio report, apparently Johnson was fleeing westward from his dynamite-shattered cabin to the Yukon boundary about 100 miles distant .A journey of another 100 miles across the northern tip of the Yukon would take him into Alaska, United States territory.

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“Le Prestige d’Henry Ford,” Le Petit Journal (Montreal). November 13, 1932. Page 17. --- Des Esquimaux ont baptisé "Henry Ford” leur chaloupe à moteur. Ils ont voulu ainsi faire honneur au grand industriel américain, dont le prestige s'étend jusqu'aux régions arctiques. Les Esquimaux s’adaptent plus volontiers que les Indiens aux usages des blancs. Le camp photographié ci-dessus est près d'Aklavik.

[AL: A rather obious paen to colonialism and the ‘assimilation’ of Inuit, using the old, inaccurate and offensive name.]

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"Planning to Drop Dynamite Bombs On Trapper’s Lair,” Ottawa Journal. February 3, 1932. Page 7. ---- Arms and Ammunition Being Bushed to Forrce Attempting to Capture Slayer of Mountie ---- Canadian Press by Direct Wire. EDMONTON, Alt. Feb. 2-A war- hero of the air is to join Canada's Mounted Police in a spectacular attempt to capture the mad murderer of a "Mountie" in the barrens of the Arctic Circle. Captain Wop May, noted Northland flyer, is to pilot a plane carrying dynamite bombs and one constable of the R.C.M.P. the lair from which Albert Johnson. crazed trapper, has resisted arrest by a police posse. 

Ammunition and provision for the force which has been seeking the hermit of Rat River since he shot to death Constable E. Millen last Saturday, will be rushed immediately to McMuray. end-of-steel, 250 miles north of Edmonton. Pilot C. H. (Punch) Dickens, one of the ablest of barren-land airman, will hop off for the North tomorrow morning.

Flying Own Plane From McMurray, Capt. May will leave at once in his own plane with the transferred supplies, on the 1,500- mile flight to Aklavik, about 60 miles south of Canada’s Arctic shore.

Inspector E. A. Eames of ‘G’ Division, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Arctic patrol, will direct the bombing, according to official word given out  here today. Dynamite bombs, already used in a vain attempt, to rout Johnson from the snow-bound cabin from which ha later vanished, will be fashioned at Aklavik for the aerial attack.

A trapper army, summoned from the area surrounding Aklavik by a radio appeal. Is gathering for a concerted attack on the little stronghold where Johnson is now believed trapped by three guarding Mounties. It was in a rush by police on that semi-circular parapet that Constable Millen dropped fatally wounded by the gun of the crazed trapper. 

Believed Cornered Johnson is believed surrounded in the bleak hill country 30 miles up the Rat river from Arctic Red river, about 60 miles south of Aklavik. He was cornered after he had fled torn his cabin near Arctic Red river, which had been besieged for 15 hours by Mounties in 50-below zero weather. Johnson disappeared when the police were forced to return to headquarters for supplies and to avoid death by , freezing.

First move against the lone trapper, who came to Arctic Red river from the Yukon last fall with his pocket bulging with gold, came on the complaint of Indians that their traps were being stolen. Constable A. W. King. of Ottawa, was wounded by Johnson as he advanced to the door of the isolated hut. After King was rushed by dog-team to Aklavik, patrols of Mounties returned to his cabin, set siege to it and then were forced to withdraw by hunger and cold.

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“‘MOUNTY’ AT ARCTIC POST SHOT DOWN,” The Province (Vancouver). January 4, 1932. Page 3. ---- Lone Demented Trapper Fired Through Door at Two Officers. ---- LIFE SAVED BY RECORD DOG TRIP ---- Companion Covered 80 Miles in 20 Hours Through Blizzard ---- AKLAVIK, N.W.T., Jan. 4. Shot through the chest, allegedly by a man he was attempting to arrest, Constable A. W. King of the Arctic Red River detachment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is lying In a critical condition in the hospital of Dr. J. W. Urquhart here. 

King was brought to Aklavik during the week-end by Constable R. G. McDowell, who had been his companion when the shooting occurred at Rat River on the oid Yuson trail last Thursday and who drove his dogs eighty miles into the teeth or an Arctic blizzard that he might bring the wounded man to safety. 

DEMENTED TRAPPER SHOT THROUGH DOOR. McDowell and King were Investigating complaints of Indians that their traplines had been tampered with when they visited a lone trapper's cabin eighty miles from here. The owner, Indians said, had been acting queerly and appeared to have become unbalanced mentally as a result of his lonely life in the Arctic. 

The policemen were seeking admittance to the cabin when shots were fired through the door from within. One of the bullets struck King In the lower part of the chest. 

DROVE DOG TEAM to HOURS IN BLIZZARD. McDowell hastily loaded the wounded man on his sleigh and, In a feat which Is acclaimed by residents here, drove his dogs to Aklavik in twenty hours. His average speed of four miles an hour is held to be remarkably good, particularly as he was driving into a blizzard such as few northerners would care to face. Dr. Urquhart reported Monday that King's condition la serious. No arrest In connection with the shooting has been made as yet,

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