There may have to be a post-mortem." "I doubt whether that will be necessary," said Anderson.
The other looked at him with undisguised curiosity.
"Then you do recognise him ?" "I will tell the coroner what I know." Anderson drew back from his close examination of the dead face, and began in his turn to question the Superintendent.

Was it certain that this man had been himself concerned in the hold-up and in the struggle with the police?
Dixon could not see how there could be any doubt of it.

The constables who had rushed in upon the gang while they were still looting the express car--the brakesman having managed to get away and convey the alarm to Kamloops--remembered seeing an old man with white hair, apparently lame, at the rear of the more active thieves, and posted as sentinel.

He had been the first to give warning of the police approach, and had levelled his revolver at the foremost constable but had missed his shot.

In the free firing which had followed nobody exactly knew what had happened.