Tillie Malcolm

Another picture from Factual Detective Stories of March 1942. This one said to be of a lady called "Maisie Livinski." The picture is later used by C.V. Tench for "Tillie Malcolm," one of the female victims in his Slumach drama.

Liberty, July 1956

In December I posted an item about the July 1956 issue of "Liberty" being offered for sale for only $150 less 5 cents. Click here to read it again.
The good news is that I have a photocopy of C.V. Tench's article "The gold mine murders..." thanks to the clippings folder at New Westminster Public Library.
The bad news is that the illustrations are completely washed out (see sample).
Pray, if you own or know anyone who has copy of that precious issue or just a better reproduction of page 33 of the article with these pictures will you let me know?

Eric Grainger

In August 2008 I posted an item showing that C.V. Tench reused the picture he first claimed to be that of another person to be Slumach in a later article. He used that picture first in an article  under his own name in a pulp magazine called Factual Detective Stories of March 1942.  Click here to refresh your memory.
This evening, going through that same issue of the magazine I came across an article by a "Jack Lunter" about the murdered Macleod brothers titled "Hoodoo Gold." The author (probably C.V. Tench) claimed that the picture (shown here) is that of Charles Macleod. Of course this is also our own Constable Eric Grainger  from Tench's Slumach sagas.

Facebook

Someone in Turkey has started a Facebook Community Page about Slumach and one about Slumach's Gold. The Slumach one contains information from Wikipedia. The Slumach's Gold one has no content yet. Is this guy serious or is it just a physhing expedition?

Addington Point - That's where it happened.

Following is a summary of the witness statements at the Inquisition, Disposition and Assizes, all of which can be found on the Web site under "Legal Records" and "Transcripts from Legal records." 

Seymour went in a canoe with Louie Bee from Lillooet Slough, the place where they were living since the end of the fishing season on Pitt River, to look at their sturgeon lines. They went from Lillooet Slough up about two miles, and finding the lines there without bait, they went a bit further along the shore to look for some dead salmon. Then they heard the rapport of a gun on the opposite (west) shore that is on the left hand side going upstream, and Louie Bee proposed to go across the river—about a quarter mile. Slumach appeared at “about the elbow of slough.” Note that Seymour calls Pitt River a “slough."

After the murder Seymour walked downriver and across the railway bridge to his camp. 

Measured from Alouette River, approximately two miles would have taken Seymour and Bee right to where Sheridan Hill is, and going up a short distance more they would have heard Slumach’s gunshot coming from Addington Point across at the elbow of Pitt River.

Said Aunt Mandy to Mike Collier in 1978:  “You know where Sturgeon Slough is? This point on the west side of Sturgeon Slough across the Pitt River, the corner before you turn north to the quarry, that’s where it happened, just a little west of the corner.”

The Wandering Prospector

Daryl Friesen, who as always is looking for treasure, made a video titled The Wandering Prospector that brings back the warm days of summer rather than the icy glaciers. There is mystery out there and Daryl gives us that feeling throughout this production. Have a look by clicking HERE

Pitt River country? Not the Fire Mountain area?

From Rob Nicholson this little piece in the Report of the Minister of Mines, 1933 in Victoria. Click on the picture to enlarge. Pitt River country and Fire Mountain: perhaps there were two discoveries, the Slumach/Jackson (Pitt River)  find and the Brown & Brown (Fire Mountain) find. Ahhh, sweet dreams. Thanks Rob.