Lucie Bones
What did Lucie (Bones) Truran do that made Paul and Spintlum, wanted for three murders and on the run for over a year, want to kill her?
British Columbia history that informs readers while entertaining them.
British Columbia history that informs readers while entertaining them.
What did Lucie (Bones) Truran do that made Paul and Spintlum, wanted for three murders and on the run for over a year, want to kill her?
its hard to fathom why Lucie would be on a hit list other than her marriage to Truran and his connection to the murderers. She spent her whole life in that High Bar-Big Bar-Jesmond area so was well known. Her son Charlie Richardson might have shed light but he passed away in Victoria 1 Oct 1994.
Paul and Spintlum, as the record shows, really meant business. Lucky for Lucie that she and they didn’t run into her while they were on the run from the police, eh? –TW
yes i wonder what would have happened if they’d had an encounter with Lucie!…another interesting connection is Lucie’s brother Jacques Bones (High Bar Reserve) was married to Susan Paul who was related to Moses Paul. Unrelated but Mary Truran (Charles mother) died on the Pollard Ranch 4June 1900. Lucie was born at High Bar 1878 and died 15July 1956 Ashcroft hospital.Her mom & dad were Rousakrat and Brigette. She had a daughter Lily Truran and son James. Lucie used to show her granddaughter Lila (Grinder) a big white rock (when they’d be picking choke cherries in Big Bar Creek area) and said thats where Lucie’s father was buried. Down the road apiece is the unmarked mass grave site. 1862 was a bad year for smallpox. In later years my gg grandather would take the family into the mountains to avoid contact during the epidemics. Their ranch was at Big Bar on the banks of the river. Lucie’s sister Victoria lived most of her life there.
Hi again, John. You mention smallpox. We’re into the second year of lock-down with COVID but what we’ve experienced so far is nothing as compared with smallpox, although the latter–fortunately–never was so widespread. We’ll never know how many people died in B.C. but we do know that it decimated the west coast tribes. Another–like yesterday’s headlines re: the 215 graves at the Kamloops residentials School–sad chapter in Canadian history.
To think that I grew up actually believing that Canada of all nations was above such things. But that’s another subject for another day. Cheers, TW.