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However, at Cape Crawford at the extreme north of Baffins Island, and had to be sought there.

Joy, leaving a detachment at Ponds Inlet, set out, December 7, for Cape Crawfprd ; arriving there Decem- ber 21, he found the body of the white man five days thereafter: con- ducting an autopsy, he found two bullet wounds and conclusive evi- dence of a violent death.

He removed the body to Ponds Inlet, and, as Coroner, held an Inquest, finding a jury of three among the traders and swearing in another as Special Constable: the Inquisition, found February 11, declared a murder by Noo-kud-lah, alias Ki-wat-soo, with abettors, Oo-roo-re-ung-nak and Ah-tee-tah, all Esquimaux.

Joy issued Warrants for the arrest of the accused but Noo-kud-lah was five hundred miles away.

The rest of the winter and the spring were spent in the arrest of the three men and in collecting the witnesses: they were scattered all over the north part of Baffins Island, an area of some 300 miles long and 200 miles wide moreover, the task was made the more heavy and slow by the scarcity of dog Oo-roo-re- ung-nak was arrested, May, 1922, Ah-tee-tah, June 12 and the main offender, July 10.