{ WEDNESDAY, DEC. .22; 1920. . THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. ee WIL IMPRESS ESKIMO SPRUCE ODDEST MURDER TRIAL IN HIS- + TORY OF CANADA. | Killer From the Far North Will Be Taken Back Among His Pegple to Pay For His Crime -- Mounted Police Sergeant Travels 8,000 Miles In Connection With This Unique Case. : N extraordinary event is being A staged somewhere along the We have on hand a well assorted stock of choice Spruce in square edge, T. & G. Canadian Arctic Circle; the first murder trial among the | Eskimos. V-joins and coped siding. | Allan Lumber Co. | SAA Phone 1042. : 3 : 3 Victoria Street ST BE A Yuva had brought the criminal to Ottawa | for trial. The Canadian authorities | formed the project of impressing Abe | Eskimos with the dignity of the white man's ews by holding a formal trial among them. Examinations of wit- | nesses, addresses by counsel, admoni- | tions by the court, and all the legal | pomps are being enacted 'by the light | of the midnight sun in a courtroom shack along the shore where the Arc- tic Circle cuts Hudson Bay, and be- (fore a horde of gaping Eskimos. The { tunction will end inpremivey--with | & hanging. In the tar north region of 'Baker Lake there dwells the Eskimo tribe | of the Padlemuts. These Padlemuts | are pacific folk, like all Kekimos, and | do not understand why men should | fight. Nevertheless there grew up {among them a certain Ou-Ang-Wak, | who was a savage fellow -- savage, that is, for an Eskimo. He presently | reigned a rampant bully among the | Arctic people of his region. He was a man of blows and knife thrusts. He swaggered in his furs, took what he pleased, and was held in abject terror by his fellows. 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