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Image No: PA-3886-29-1
Title: Judicial party for murder trial at Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment, Herschel Island, Yukon.
Date: 1923
Remarks: Standing L-R: Sergeant Spriggs, Stuart Taylor Wood, Constable Parry, Mr. Howitt (prosecutor), Judge Lucien Dubuc, Mr. Corry (defence). Murderers Tatamigana and Alicomiak (Alikomiak) are sitting at centre in white shirts. They were convicted of the murders of Pugnana, Corporal Doak of the RCMP, and Otto Binder, a Hudson's Bay Company trader. They were hanged in February 1924.
Subject(s): Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Officers / Crime / Inuit - Personalities
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Image No: PA-3886-29-2
Title: Men sitting next to the Anglican Mission House, Herschel Island, Yukon.
Date: July 1923
Remarks: The judicial party for a murder trial were housed here. L-R: Reverend Geddes, Judge Lucien Dubuc, and Dr. P.E. Doyle (police doctor).
Subject(s): Anglican Church - Clergy / Physicians / Judges
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Image No: PA-3886-29-3
Title: Royal Canadian Mounted Police with hangman, Herschel Island, Yukon.
Date: 1923
Photographer/Illustrator: Wood, Stuart Taylor
Remarks: L-R: Sergeant Anderton, Constable Edgar Millen (later killed by Mad Trapper Johnson), Corporal Pasley, Mr. Gill (hangman), Constable Sam Dykes. Taken during murder trials.
Subject(s): Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Officers
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Image No: PA-3886-29-5
Title: Alicomiak (Alikomiak), murderer, Herschel Island, Yukon.
Date: 1923
Photographer/Illustrator: Wood, Stuart Taylor
Remarks: Convicted and hanged in February 1924 for murder of Pugana, Corporal William Doak of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and Otto Binder, Hudson's Bay Company trader
Subject(s): Inuit - Personalities / Murderers
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Image No: PA-3886-29-6
Title: Tatamigana, murderer, Herschel Island, Yukon.
Date: 1923
Photographer/Illustrator: Wood, Stuart Taylor
Remarks: Convicted and hanged in February 1924 for murder of Pugana.
Subject(s): Inuit - Personalities / Murderers
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Image No: PA-3886-29-7
Title: Toktogan, wife of Otto Binder, with child, Herschel Island, Yukon.
Date: 1923
Photographer/Illustrator: Wood, Stuart Taylor
Remarks: Alicomiak [Alikomiak]was convicted and hanged in February 1924 for the murder of her husband, Otto Binder, who was a Hudson's Bay Company trader.
Subject(s): Inuit - Personalities
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