“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.
