MAD TRAPPER
SLAIN BY POLICE
AFTER EIGHT WEEKS’ HUNT
(United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
VANCOUVER, Feb. 17.
Aklavik, in the North West territiry, has been the scene of one- of the greatest man hunts in -the history of the north, lasting for eight weeks during mid-winter blizzards and below zero weather.
The man hunt halted to-day, however, when Albert Johnston, the mad trapper of the Arctic, was shot and killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, after lie had made a dramatic last stand on the frozen wastes of the Yukon. Johnston was being sought for slaying a police constable and wounding another, before he was killed, Jonhston on Wednesday seriously wounded another constable.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 February 1932, Page 5
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