My theory is Capture... Short incarceration... Released back into the public... After all it sounds like they have had a tough up bringing up to this point...
Ya, don't go worrying about your video games....they're the last thing that will take the heat from all this.
Guess the first item blamed and how they had acquired it?
It was a few years actually. The attempts by the provincial police to find him stretched over 3 years, the last by the Pinkerton detectives in winter 1909. Once the official search was deactivated they upped the reward. There were bounty hunters looking for him for a few more years after that.
As for the two peckerheads still on the run, I think they're probably a little smarter and better prepared than people think. Doesn't make sense to do a marathon drive halfway across the country just to burn your car and run into the bush without a plan. I'm betting they're long gone for now.
Also have my doubts about the sighting of the two by that bear clan patrol or whatever it's called. A bit too convenient maybe? I think for the RCMP to pull out of York Landing this quickly means maybe they know something.
I don’t get the sighting in York Landing garbage dump. Two white dudes scavenging in a dump bolt for the woods on being spotted. The cops are there quickly with ground, water and air assets. And then they pull the plug and say there is nothing there. So did the Clan guys see anyone or not? Did they make it up? Are there a couple of skinny white dudes just happening through and thought they would grab a bite at the dump? Presumably they could not have got far and if it was not the two wanted men then they would have hauled someone out of the woods regardless, wouldn’t they? Perhaps the cops quickly determined there was nothing in the claim so have given up. Whatever, it seems odd to me.
I believe the Bear Clan did give an honest description of what they thought they saw.
After watching the news showing police looking through that garbage dump with black bears doing the same,
and reading many accounts of people thinking they saw a Sasquatch which turned out to be a bear, and further
recalling a time when my wife and I saw what we thought was a fisherman come up a bank, out onto the road,
and then walk across the road on two legs before going down on all fours when he went down the far bank as we
approached him while driving at night which we then realized was a bear, I wonder if their imagination played
tricks with what they thought they saw.