A Century After, Cariboo Mystery Still Resonates

So far in their investigation of the missing Halden family, all the provincial police could do was charge farm hand David Clark with the theft and possession of his employer’s jewellery.

The officer in charge in Quesnel, Constable G.H. Greenwood, needed more, much more, to make a case of murder stick. He was determined to dig up every square inch of Grand View Farm and dismantle the house, board by board, if he had to.

That’s next week in the Chronicles.

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PHOTO: Because of their magnificent view of the confluence of the Fraser and Quesnel rivers, the Haldens had named their acreage two miles east of Quesnel township, Grand View Farm. —www.pinterest.com