“Bulldog” Kelly

Posted by twpaterson on Nov 6, 2023 in Articles | 5 comments

“Money and political influence have been too potent, and Kelly is now treading the firm soil and breathing the pure air of a country where all are free—free to make justice a travesty, to treat murder as a joke, and to turn a criminal trial and sentence into a mockery…”—Victoria Colonist. It would take little less than a full-fledged miracle to uncover a murderer’s loot cached near the town of Golden, British Columbia, but if a treasure hunter could match painstaking research with phenomenal luck, he might find himself $4,500 (actually much more at today’s values) richer. Golden, B.C., where “Bulldog” Kelly hung out until committing murder. This is the money stolen in a wild robbery over a century ago; a rip-roaring gun battle whose shots resounded from the wilds of British Columbia to the national capitals of Canada...