WEDNESDAY, JULY, 14, 1920 When Ontario Was Exciting OME time when you want to | hear tales of red-blooded, two- | fisted men and Homeric fights just drop into the office of | Superintendent Joseph E. Rogers, of uni Rrovineial Policevat : ment 'Buildings. If you can Induce him to talk you'll forget that you are sitting in a cosy room, its walls | adorned with souvenirs and photo- | graphs, and you'll be out in the | woods and mining camps among erude men who might have furnished ! material for some of Jack London's | greatest stories. There's life, and | death, too, hairbreadth escapes, and | often horror, when "Joe" Rogers | loosens up. i His youth was spent 'round Barrie, | where his father, Major Joseph Rog- | ers, now a veteran 88 years old, was high constable of the County of Stm- cos. Young Joe got his first experi. | ence of police work as assistant to his | father. - 1 Barrie was a nice little town some forty or fifty years ago, but the centre | of lymber camps, which always made for a certain liveliness. The type of man found there then has passed. | tough characters, hard, liviag hard, and drinking heav- fly. Yet crime was not of a serious nature. Saturday night, however, was Generally. celebrated by a wild spree ending in fighting. Bullies from the | woods would flock into the town, and | blows oftem led to a free-for-all. i _ One night young Rogers came om "such a scrap, with 150 people form- | ing a ring. He was pretty husky | then,-and had lots of nerve, so he | went right into the crowd and tried | to stop the fight. First thing he knew | he had been thrown clean over the heads of the people outside the ring. | upt. Rogers joined the Govern- | ment servicp on December 13, 13884. In those days th was only one other police officer, The late John W. Murray. They were then called Gov- ernment detectives. Later the name | was changed to inspectors of criminal investigation. In 1892 the present Inspector ' Greer of the provincial force was taken on. There were just { the three of thein until 1909, when | the present Provincial Police was or- | ganized, with Supt. Rogers as chief. | To-day the force numbers fifty. One of the first jobs Mr. Rogers tackled was the suppression of boot- legging -at Biscotasing, when the C.P.R. were using it as a construc- tion point for the extension of their line out west. He went up there with a band of "specials" from Toronto, with the present Chief Inspector, Robert McLelland, with him as se- cond in command. They seized so much liquor and secured so many fines that they were wmble to build a lock-ép and pay the expenses of the trip. One day the Riot Act had to be read, but Mr. Rogers and his men settled the matter by going into the | Five and walloping them with their e thief, caught un- awares, went®to get his coat and made a break to get away. He and | clinched. The thief was a | fellow and the two men had an up-and-down scrap for a while. At | last the thief pulled a knife and jab- bed at Rogers' throat, missing it but his coat at the shoulder. He been actively in- f the Ontario mur | ders of the last thirty-five years. He the Day murder as one of the | with which he ever i contact. He was associated late Chief Young of Niagara | aging the murderer to the iripool | the sister kept | ruders, Day pushed his | over the steep bank. not found for weeks. stumbled on it, ter lecomposed. ! 'Major Basil D. Hobds, DSO. D.S.C, Sault Ste. Marie, has been bn, \ THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG If you would catch the Fp dy and butter. If you would ge jo children eat it. 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Lead- lay is spending a few days in Toron- to. - Norman Davy and Mrs. Mary Veley, Piecadilly, were quietly miarried in Kingston June 30th. Bad luck is reasonably sure to come to those who trust to luck.