Mr. Carmichael

a port of entry for American trading ships, the only occasional visitors to this remote spot. The fall and winter of 1916-17 were spent at Herschel Island, and in February orders were received, through the police patrol from Dawson, to convey the prisoners the following spring to Fort McPherson. We left on 9 May 1917, and reached Calgary, Alberta, in August by way of the Mackenzie River. The murder trial took place in the Supreme Court of Alberta, before the Chief Justice and a jury of six, when the Eskimo were found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, but almost immediately the death sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life to be served in the Far North. The following September prisoners, interpreters, and escorts returned to the Far North, while the author was fortunate enough to obtain leave of absence and visit his home in Ireland

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