Hide Article Text (OCR)
3Provincial Police Got Busydel15.otish, is ionisnryerslil-lis,atireheiiilheisThat the provincial police are not laying down on their duties was the comment of not a few residents here Saturday evening when they gazed upon a veritable walking arnenal in the person of Provincial Police Constable Howieson, after making the arrest of Peter Moar, a German who had been shacking in the vicinity of the Rawhide mine and has reported only twice in eight months.l*o. use mining camp phraesology, Moar has been shooting off his mouth'' considerably of late over a ittlc matter that John Bull proposes to settle to his own satisfaction and no one else's with the exponent -of ‘kultur.”Hanging by a buckskin thong at the head of the bed the constable secured a 44 Colts revolver, and in a trunk close by a 38 U.S. revolver.A No. 351 automatic Winchester rifle was also secured, in addition to a double-barrelled No. 10 bore Lefever shotgun. Eighty-oiie’rounds o( ball catridges was also gathered up by the astute minion of the law and marked for exhibit. A considerable quantity of powder and a .fuse with detonator attached next received.his attention. Moar seemed considerably flustered over the discovery of the last two items, and upon being questioned as to whereabouts of an automatic pistol, disclaimed ownership of such profu.- ely.'- The prisoner was incarnated in the provincial Bastille, and a further search on Sunday morning by the province’s ‘‘Doubting Thomas” for the.automatic revealed one X L. No.4 revolver and nineteen, additionalolaiarcrPlPstlyfmorptn^M'Cwr appCHrcui lt;befqre Stipendary Magistrate W. R.Dcwdney at Greenwood, receiving!: three months' hard labor for having ISfirearms in his ^possession, at the lit end of which time he will be traos- I tc ferred to the detention camp for j A aliens at Vernon.Moar, who speaks Italian fluently, claims to have worked in an iron mine in Austria previous to coming palere from the United States.CO:
Newspaper Details
Phoenix Pioneer and Boundary Mining Journal
Phoenix, British Columbia, CA
Sat, Feb 12, 1916
Page 1
Full Page
Clipped by
Anonymous
WA, USA 09 Nov 2024
Other Publications Near Phoenix, British Columbia
Phoenix Pioneer and Boundary Mining Journal
Phoenix Pioneer
