Yukon who is who

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Murray Henry Edward Hayne
	
Murray Hayne was a Staff Sergeant in the first Yukon detachment of North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) officers to arrive at Forty Mile in 1895.((Helene Dobrowolsky, //Law of the Yukon: A Pictorial History of the Mounted Police in the Yukon.// Whitehorse: Lost Moose, 1995: 19.)) 

Hayne was an amateur photographer and took with him a consignment of photographic materials.((Ian McLean and Jill Jago, "A Very British Mountie." Montreal: Productions Grand Nord Quebec Inc., 1999: 21.)) He would normally fill the dark slides [frames] with sheet film in his bunk at night but there was no night in the Yukon summer. On the trip north he was on the //Excelsior.// He blocked off the windows with blankets, but the purser opened the door. On the sternwheeler //Portus B. Weare// he went into the hold but had to stand knee-high in bilge water, wrapped up in a blanket. Only four photographic plates out of twelve came out clearly. At Forty Mile he could use a cabin and he rigged up a dark room with blankets and oilskins but views taken during the river trip show light leaks. He developed entirely with the Eikonogen formula supplied with Edward's plates, one of three varieties he took with him. Hayne’s memoir of his time in the Yukon police service was illustrated with his own photographs.((Yukon Archives, //The Pioneers of the Klondyke: Being an account of two years police service in the Yukon.// Narrated by M.H.E. Hayne and recorded by H. West Taylor.  London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1897.))
	
In 1895, D.W. Walker and another armed man had an altercation over a woman, Mrs. Walker, at Forty Mile. Mrs. Walker was prepared to marry J.A. Williams. Staff Sargent Hayne disarmed Walker and took him to Bishop Bompas' residence where the marriage was to take place. Hayne then disarmed Williams and took him to prison. Walker started to fight with Williams on the way back to the barracks and Hayne finally had to knock him down. The guard room was not finished and there were no rations, but Hayne drove a log into the dirt floor and handcuffed the prisoner to that. Williams was obnoxious and everyone wanted to get rid of him and so Hayne helped him to “escape.” Williams was put in a boat with some bacon and allowed to drift into American territory, never to be heard from again.((Jim Wallace, //Forty Mile to Bonanza: The North-West Mounted Police in the Klondike Gold Rush.// Calgary: Bunker to Bunjer Publishing. 2000: 23))
	
Hayne was one of the men sent to Glacier Creek in 1896 to confront the miners after an illegal miners' meeting. Constantine had a poor opinion of some of his men and reported that Staff Sergeant Murray Hayne was out to get all that he could out of the government and do as little as possible in return. In 1896, Yukon labourers were getting $15.00 a day compared to $1 for the Mounted Police constables. A week after Carmack registered the Bonanza creek claims, NWMP members Hayne, Webster, Churchill and Wills took a week's leave and headed out to stake their own claims. Those who succeeded, hired labourers to work them. Ex-staff Sergeant Murray Hayne had finished his two-year posting in the Yukon and was on the //Portland// when it docked in Seattle with a cargo of gold on July 17, 1897. He was with other NWMP officers who had staked claims: ex-Sergeant Philip Engel, ex-corporal Eli Newbrook, and ex-Constables Henry Jenkins, and Edward Telford. They were reluctant to tell reporters how much gold they had recovered, only describing it as "good money."((Jim Wallace, //Forty Mile to Bonanza: The North-West Mounted Police in the Klondike Gold Rush.// Calgary: Bunker to Bunker Publishing. 2000: 33, 37, 46.))