The Vancouver Sun from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 79

plantation-rubber soles. The girl's helmet was found by her right hand but her other clothhad almost completely disintegrated. It ing was believed her underpants were many sizes too big and the slack was taken up by a safety pin. Her shoes were identical with the boy's but half an inch longer. Both skeletons were encircled by black leather belts.

Both children had markedly prominent lower jaws, though the girl's was more so. She had light brown hair, the boy dark brown. Both had many cavities in their teeth, the girl especially, causing doctors to believe she ate too much candy. The boy was sturdy, the girl slender. The girl's age was placed as about four months short of eight years, and the boy's at about six years and four months.

The lunch box found near them had been pale blue with a white trim. Papers in it, presumably from their last picnic lunch, had rotted into a soggy mass of pulp. Beyond that were only a woman's fur coat and a woman's shoe, size with sole, a light grey quarter lining and red quarter binding. RMED with these clues, MacKay set to A work. The father of two children himself.

MacKay, as chief investigator into sudden deaths, was not usually disturbed by murder. But this case was different. He found he could not treat it as routine. "To see two little kids' skeletons like that, would give anyone a turn," he commented to explain why the case has become an obsession with him. He found plenty of help in his frustrating quest, particularly from Percy Easler, then detective-sergeant and now inspector of the Police Science Laboratory.

He went to work on the children's clothing. Although the piece of material obtained from the skeleton seemed a faint clue, it was carefully washed and examined under a microscope, revealing a trace of red. Rayon thread in the material had disintegrated, leaving four threads missing. Eventually, with the help of R. P.

Davenport, manager of the yard-goods department at Eaton's, it was established that the jacket had been made of good quality Fraser tartan. A manufacturer produced some more for police. K. Lopatecki, manager of the Queen Bess Dress was convinced that the jacket was not factory-made. It had three strands of narrow elastic around the waist.

where a manufacturer would have used only one wide one. The children's shoes were as carefully examined and new ones made to police order. A dummy was dressed in replicas of the boy's clothing and photographed in the hope it would help anyone who might have known the children to identify them. The woman's clothing came under equally close examination. Vancouver furrier R.

J. Pop made a pattern for a fur coat based on the lining. He came up with a 1943 model with leg-of-mutton sleeves, a cheap factory mass-production model measuring 40 inches long and about size 16. From it and the one shoe police constructed a picture of the woman who accompanied the children on their last day's outing to the park. She was short and stocky, standing about five feet three or four and (Continued on Page 59) Rubber-soled shoe worn by boy was made by Eastern Canadian firm in only one year, 1947.

Among other exhibits of crime were woman's shoe and boy's leather hat. NEW 20! Cheap fur coat was thrown over bodies. The "Babes In The (Continued from Page 28) It all began when Albert Tong, working within sound of traffic speeding by on the causeway to the Lions Gate Bridge, noticed that "there seemed to be something buried there." The next day, Thursday, Jan. 15, 1953, he raked back the leaves, exposing the skeletons. Summoned immediately, police under Det.

MacKay carefully examined the bones. Noticing that there seemed to be layers of material covering them, police carefully cut out a section. Later examination disclosed it to be leaf mould and police were able to' count five distinct seasons of the falling of leaves from deciduous trees and six of coniferous. Since the coniferous needles fall earlier in the year, the mould indicated the skeletons had lain there for about years. Small trees were growing through both the children's rib cages.

CUBSEQUENT tests showed the bodies had lain in the park since the winter 1947- 48 or 1948-49. Later, credible evidence pointed to Oct. 5, 1947, as the probable date of the murder. And it was definitely murder. The police also discovered in the "grave" a lather's hatchet with a peculiarly worn blade which exactly fitted clefts in the skulls two in the boy's, one in the girl's.

The little skeletons were lying in a shallow depression against a log. The boy was face down, the girl with her head and shoulders across the boy's feet. Both had been wearing aviators' leather helmets, one with goggles. The boy had a jacket of Fraser tartan, with cream or fawn corduroy trousers and play shoes with 6r WHY BUY FM? Because only FM radio brings you hours of the exciting and unusual. Uninterrupted.

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