"Planning to Drop Dynamite Bombs On Trapper’s Lair,” Ottawa Journal. February 3, 1932. Page 7.
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Arms and Ammunition Being Bushed to Forrce Attempting to Capture Slayer of Mountie
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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.
