#double murderer

“Murderer Is Caught Near Leduc,” Edmonton Bulletin. October 23, 1918. Page 01. --- Joe Cameron Nabbed When in Bed by Police -- Had Obtained Work With a Threshing Gang --- Joseph Cameron, alias J. A. Campbell, alias Joe Madore, who committed the double murder in the city on Thursday morning last and made a sensational escape from the Northern Hotel, was caught in the Leduc district Tuesday night by Provincial Police.

He was arrested by Detective Matheson, to whom he admitted his identity. Cameron offered no resistance and was brought to Edmonton by motor at 2 o’clock this morning and shut up in the Provincial jail.

“Police Have Not Yet Taken Joe Cameron,” Edmonton Bulletin. October 21, 1918. Page 03. --- Believe Accomplices Shelter Him in Hopes of His Slipping Out of City --- Forty-eight hours of search by the uniformed and detective police, aided by the provincial and mounted force, have been unavailing in effecting the capture of Jos. Cameron, otherwise J. A. Campbell, wanted for the murder of Constable Beevers and Sara Zappler on Thursday last.

“Murderer Not Yet Captured; Clues Run Out,” Edmonton Bulletin. October 19, 1918. Page 03. --- Police Receive Many Reports That Suspect Has Been Seen --- The man known as Jos. Cameron, the murderer of Sam Zappler, who died at 5:30 Thursday afternoon, and Frank Beevers, is still at large in spite of the unceasing efforts of both the city and provincial police. Reports received from Prince Albert disclose the fact that the man is an ex-convict and has recently been discharged from the Prince Albert Penitentiary after serving a term for other crimes. Whatever his real name is he is known here as Joe Cameron and is a Frenchman by nationality. His identity has been established beyond all doubt according to the information received at police headquarters here.

Friday afternoon a report was received that a man had been seen hiding in the brush on the Hudson’s Bay reserve and a strong police posse scoured the whole quarter section from and to end. The charred remains of a fire which may or may not have been made recently was the only suspicious thing found.

About 11 o’clock a phone message came in that someone was in the abandoned candy factory at Ross street and Namayo avenue. A force of policemen ransacked the building without result.

The police authorities are investigating every possible clue to his hiding place. They answered hurried calls and went out to Ardrossan, Leduc and other places at an early hour Friday afternoon, but no trace of the murderer could be found. At eleven a.m. a call came from the Calder district that a man answering the gunman’s description had been seen walking from Calder towards the E., D. and B. C. railway, and a special detachment of the city police proceeded to the scene, but so far their efforts to locate the slayers are unavailing.

The man known as ‘Joe,’ the murderer, the police think, may be well dressed and wearing in all probability a black overcoat with a velvet collar which he is supposed to have had cleaned and pressed last Tuesday in the city. He is a man of pleasant manner and of good appearance but may have reduced or shaved off his thick black mustache.