One Hundred Years Ago - Gunanoot Gives Himself Up

One hundred years ago today, Simon Gunanoot, a successful and well-liked Gitxsan hunter and trader from Kispiox, walked into the police station in Hazelton, B.C. and gave himself up . Accused of a double murder in June 1906, he with his family and brother-in-law Peter Himadan fled into the wilderness north and east of Hazelton. For thirteen years he had evaded all the police parties searching for him. No one stepped forward to claim the reward. He was taken to Vancouver and tried for the murders . The jury acquitted him.