#wolf bounty

“More Money Paid In Wolf Bounties,” Toronto Star. February 27, 1942. Page 8. ---- Lindsay, Feb. 27 - An increase over previous months, $300 was paid out in January and February by the County of Victoria in wolf bounties. The bounties have been paid to hunters and farmers in the Kirkfield and Sebright districts. Hundreds of dollars have been paid out by township councils for sheep killed by wolves.

“Wolf Bounty Frauds,” Toronto Globe. March 26, 1910. Page 04. ---- FINKELSTEIN AND LEVISON COMMITTED FOR TRIAL ---- George Westcott’s Store of His Dealings With Winnipeg Men - Nine Prisoners Who Had Pleaded Guilty Sentence. ---- (C.P.R. Press Despatch.) Fort Frances, March 25. - Interest in the wolf bounty frauds continued to-day when Moses Finkelstein and Bejamin Levison, fur dealers of Winnipeg, were arraigned in the Police Court here charged with complicity in the conspiracy to defraud the Ontario Government. In order to prove the alleged complicity the Crown called George Westcott, now under sentence, who is, in an apparently straightforward story, told the whole circumstances. According to Westcott, he visited the accused fur dealers, and seeing a pile of wolf skins, was told that he could make easy money in this district under certain conditions. Mr. Westcott said he, therefore, arranged to take a number of wolf skins, those with good ears only, on the understanding that he got his money back less $1 for rental. The witness said he had obtained probably one hundred skins from Leviston in this way, on which the bounty had been paid.

The Magistrate committed both Finkelstein and Leviston for trial at the next Court of General Session on June 7th next. A cash bail of $2,000 each was accepted in their own recognizances.