Subject: Criminal Activity

Kaslo Notes

Man in Kaslo charged with seduction jumped bond in the sum of $2000 and local newspapers turn cold shoulder to each other.

Internal ID:	0050.0233
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	April 19th 1898

Cranbrook Spy

Former Cranbrook man arrested as a spy.

Internal ID:	0050.0376
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	December 13th 1917

Trail, B.C.

Trail resident fined $25 and costs for using obscene language on Trails main thoroughfare.

Internal ID:	0050.0673
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 2nd 1930

V. Hyde Baker and Bullet

Stray bullet goes through walls of V. Hyde Baker house and narrowly missed the nurse and his little girl.

Internal ID:	0050.0947
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	March 1st 1906

Imperial Hotel Stabbing

Reporting on Olson being given lenient jail time for earlier stabbing.

Internal ID:	0051.0086
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 10th 1926

John Walton

Former operator of brokerage house in Cranbrook being charged in Ottawa for fleecing people there.

Internal ID:	0051.0283
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 24th 1926

'Soapy' Smith Gang

â??Soapyâ?? Smithâ??s gang making delivery of mail secured from U.S. post at Skagway, Alaska, June, 1898.

Internal ID:	0266.0008
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	June 1st 1898

Broken Fence

Broken fence, April 15th 2001.

Internal ID:	0047.0119
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	April 15th 2001

Patricia Cafe Sign Defacing

Cranbrook Court hears testimony from 19 witnesses in a sign destruction case.

Internal ID:	0050.0703
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 9th 1930

Zuckerberg Island

Possible vandalism on Zuckerberg Island, with a large interpretive sign snapped off.

Internal ID:	0496.0111
Medium:	Photograph
Date:	1992

Kuskonook Shooting

Newspaper article man found guilty of shooting at another man with intent to maim and sentenced to 3 years hard labor, hoping to deter other shootings.

Internal ID:	0050.0079
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 27th 1898

Italian Violence

Newspaper excerpt Brooklyn News scrimmage between two Italians in work camp almost ended with one man dead by an axe.

Internal ID:	0050.0091
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	November 2nd 1898

Police Court

Trials of drunks, disorderlies and other offenders agains the law.

Internal ID:	0050.0251
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 4th 1898

Chinese Assaults

Molestation of Chinamen in Nanaimo is the only police court charges on dock of late.

Internal ID:	0050.0496
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 8th 1903

Ktunaxa Prosecutions

Charges brought against local Indians, one for resisting lawful search and the other for beating his wife.

Internal ID:	0051.0284
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 24th 1926

Corbin Strikers Convicted

9 strikers get imprisonment after clash with police.

Internal ID:	0051.0754
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	May 16th 1935

Wentworth Hotel

A rumpus in the hallway of Cranbrooks' Wentworth hotel resulted in arrests and fines for three men.

Internal ID:	0052.0274
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	February 10th 1921

Ryckman

Member of Kootenay Indian band charged with threatened assault on Constable Ryckman and resisting arrest, will be tried in county court in Cranbrook.

Internal ID:	0052.0816
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	February 13th 1930

Ryckman

Windermere Indian band member fined $100 or six month imprisonment for assaulting Constable Ryckman, charge of resisting arrest was dismissed.

Internal ID:	0052.0819
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	February 20th 1930

Provincial Police

Reporting on crackdown by police of motorists speeding and careless driving, dogs running at large and Indians who are in nonobservance of Games Act by hunting during close season.

Internal ID:	0051.0295
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 24th 1926

Game Wardens

B.C. game wardens and N.W.M.Police have prevented depredatory incursions into the Elk River valley by Stony Indians this season.

Internal ID:	0052.0244
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	July 28th 1906

Fined For Blowing Horns

Two Trail men fined for honking their horns and creating a disturbance following a wedding.

Internal ID:	0050.0591
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	November 13th 1930

Change To Provincial Police

Cranbrook City Council meeting over the matter of changing from city to provincial police.

Internal ID:	0050.0122
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	February 5th 1931

Change to Provincial Police

Mayor and five Aldermen resign in what they consider is a vote of nonconfidence in their contemplating changing to provincial policing. Telegrams from many cities received favoring provincial policing, but petition of local citizens against it; mostly hotel owners and bootleggers.

Internal ID:	0050.0138
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	February 12th 1931

Change Poem

Newspaper article in form of poem relating to fight among Cranbrook City Councellors over going to provincial policing, causing Mayor and three Aldermen to temporarily resign.

Internal ID:	0050.0140
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	February 19th 1931

Illegal Whiskey

Mounted police private overhears conversation in french language about an illegal still, arresting suspect who at trial denied he was involved until Private Anger took the stand to reveal he was French and understood the whole conversation.

Internal ID:	0050.0215
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	April 19th 1898

Cranbrook Colour

Amusing happenings in Cranbrook.

Internal ID:	0050.0264
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 4th 1898

Cranbrook Notes

Noting ongoing constuction in Cranbrook and the heat wave it is experiencing, with mountain fires to go along with it.

Internal ID:	0050.0291
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 11th 1898

Basin Notes

Newspaper article noting ongoing prosperity and growth in the basin, including new fire hall in Grand Forks, new post office in Greenwood, Chinese still barred from B.C. mines.

Internal ID:	0050.0298
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 11th 1898

Cranbrook Police Court

Cranbrook Police Court charging two men for drunk and disorderly and one man sent to Nelson jail for three months hard labor for supplying liquor to Indians.

Internal ID:	0050.0330
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	September 27th 1917

Cranbrook Club

Owing to the Prohibition Act a general meeting of the members of the Cranbrook Club was held to discuss the continuing of the Club.

Internal ID:	0050.0337
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 4th 1917

Cranbrook Police

Cranbrook police in full force preventing violators of the Prohibition Act, with penalty for first offence being 6 to 12 months hard labor.

Internal ID:	0050.0338
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 4th 1917

Police Court

Two cases of selling liquor against the Prohibition Act in court.

Internal ID:	0050.0374
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	November 1st 1917

Liquor Law

Three Rossland men fined $50 for accepting an invitation from a guest at a hotel and partaking of drinks in his room.

Internal ID:	0050.0650
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	November 27th 1930

Liquor Licenses

Report on the License Commissioners granting excessive numbers of licenses.

Internal ID:	0051.0167
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	April 11th 1901

Fred Ryckman

Newspaper excerpt Creston Review - Indian population giving police courts a little business, two Indians fined for not sending their boys to school and gambling.

Internal ID:	0052.0621
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	September 29th 1922

Liquor Cases

Newspaper article reporting on the upcoming case of three men accused of being in possesion of alchohol, with the intent to sell.

Internal ID:	0053.0037
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 19th 1927

Murder Of Miss King

Newspaper article reporting upcoming trial for murder of man who killed a women while attempting to dynamite Canada hotel in Niagara, B.C.

Internal ID:	0050.0039
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	March 28th 1908

Chinese Prejudice

Newspaper article Chinaman kills himself and sheriffs officers at a powder magazine after they came for him for killing another Chinaman.

Internal ID:	0050.0082
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	July 27th 1898

Italian Violence

Newspaper article urge for stricter gun control and more searches on Italians for concealed weaponsas another murderer is awaiting trial in Nelson jail .

Internal ID:	0050.0084
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 24th 1898

Railway Violence

Newspaper article trial of man accused of murdering his friend and fellow countryman could not be decided by jury.

Internal ID:	0050.0087
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	September 28th 1898

Italian Prejudice

Newspaper article many Italians in Nelson as interested spectators at the Bruno trial.

Internal ID:	0050.0088
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	September 28th 1898

Kuskanook Notes

Kuskanook to have a post office within a month, and local man charged with murder found quilty and received sentence to be hanged.

Internal ID:	0050.0234
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	April 19th 1898

Moyie Murder

Unknown Italian murdered on grade between Swansea and Moyie.

Internal ID:	0050.0296
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 11th 1898

Moyie Murder

Italian Moyie man murdered now identified and friend and fellow countryman to stand trial for his murder, after leading mounted police on merry chase.

Internal ID:	0050.0309
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 18th 1898

Chinese Murder

Circumstances surrounding the murder of a Chinese merchant at Steveston has three Chinese witnesses afixing the guilt on a Japanese and in turn the witnesses are under arrest for perjury.

Internal ID:	0050.0499
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	December 12th 1903

Cranbrook - Firsts

Detailing some of the important events of Cranbrooks history.

Internal ID:	0050.0984
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	March 19th 1908

Kootenay Mines Report

Article with letters from various individuals with reports on the Kootenay Mines. Featured is a report from Peter O'Reilly, gold commissioner, discussing the progress in the Wild Horse camp.

Internal ID:	0051.0021
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 3rd 1865

Lascelles

After being judged insane, Lascelles was committed to an asylum for killing his Chinaman.

Internal ID:	0051.0446
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 3rd 1901

Chinese Gambling Corrupts

Newspaper article Nelson police keeping a watchful eye on Chinese quarters after Rossland police raid Chinese gambling den.

Internal ID:	0050.0059
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	January 19th 1898

Chinese Discrimination

Newspaper article Nelson Chinamen at a Fan tan game were surprised by arrival of fire chief and assistants who collected poll tax from them.

Internal ID:	0050.0090
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	November 2nd 1898

Queens Hotel

Appeal in favor of men arrested in Queens hotel room on charge of unlawful gambling.

Internal ID:	0050.0326
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	September 13th 1917

City Council

Cranbrook City Council meeting, among other things brought up was approaching C.P.R. in respect to building a swimming pool in connection with the Railway Y.M.C.A., and closing down a street during sleighing season.

Internal ID:	0050.0336
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 4th 1917

Chinese Plays

No Chinese women are allowed on stage by decree of an Empress from 1736.

Internal ID:	0050.0452
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	September 26th 1900

Chinese Place

Newspaper excerpt Rossland World - recent debate in B.C. House of Commons had a letter produced by Bishop Perrin saying nice things of the Chinese.

Internal ID:	0050.0504
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	April 2nd 1904

Game In East Kootenay

Historic description by C.M. Edwards.

Internal ID:	0051.0811
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	December 3rd 1936

Chinese Boxer

New York Morning Journal has discovered a new pugilistic champion in a Chinaman, originally from the tea fields of China.

Internal ID:	0051.0891
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	March 1st 1899

Cranbrook Rotary

Cranbrook Rotary Clubs weekly luncheon with speaker "Dad" Worden telling of his pioneer days in Calgary, Slocan and Cranbrook. Describing methods of transport and life in general.

Internal ID:	0052.0633
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 20th 1922

Cranbrook Police Court

Glaring instance of the need to amend section 211 of the Criminal Code, which allowed guilty man to be freed from charges of two offences against a girl between the ages of fourteen and sixteen.

Internal ID:	0050.0339
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 4th 1917

Olson sentenced in Imperial Hotel Stabbing

Internal ID:	0042.0039
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	June 10th 1926

Cranbrook Police Court

Italian who claimed to have been rolled at Palmer Bar, out of luck in the courts.

Internal ID:	0050.0294
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 11th 1898

Roma Hotel Robbery

Fernie Roma Hotel robbed of several hundred dollars in cash, thought to be perpetrated by a party familiar with the place.

Internal ID:	0050.0632
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	November 20th 1930

Bulb Theft

Miss Kimpton's dahlia bulbs in her front yard were dug up and taken away.

Internal ID:	0050.0676
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 2nd 1930

Cranbrook - Firsts

Detailing first things in Cranbrook, from first building to first baby born.

Internal ID:	0050.0985
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	March 19th 1908

The Blackfoot Mines

An article with accounts from miners out of the Blackfoot region. One miner describes the richest and most extensive gold diggings since California. As well as describing the hardships endured by the miners and on the road. Another miner details the costs of supplies. And yet another miner tells of horse thieves, being caught get their justice and miners say "Served em right".

Internal ID:	0051.0053
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	December 1st 1865

Kootenay Dust Robbers

Newspaper article telling of robbers caught in Portland and charged with theft from J.H. Beckham from Kootenay. Two thieves to be tried.

Internal ID:	0051.0062
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	December 13th 1865

Little & Atchison

On the burglarization of local grocery store. Thieves made off with $4.00.

Internal ID:	0051.0149
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	July 18th 1924

Ballot Box Theft

Article reporting man found guilty of stealing a ballot box is maintaining his innocence.

Internal ID:	0051.0403
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	October 18th 1900

Log Salvage

Newspaper article stating Patrick Lumber Company is refused justice when trying to retrieve ten million feet of lumber that broke free from the company's boom on the Little Slocan River and ended up in Washington.

Internal ID:	0052.0003
Medium:	Newspaper
Date:	August 16th 1908

Patton Sentenced

Patton sentenced to three years for possession of stolen goods, but him and his partner had charges dropped on charge of robbery for lack of evidence.