Joseph Genelle
	
Joseph Genelle’s Yukon River steamers //Mona// and //Glenora// burned on 27 March 1902. They were in winter quarters at Steamboat Slough across the Yukon River from Dawson. The Alaska Steamship Company's //SS Rock Island// suffered considerable damage in the fire. The //Mona// and the //Glenora// were being looked after by a caretaker, George Henry McMillan. The firm of McLennan and McFeely held a mortgage on the two burned vessels and they were warned by anonymous letter that the vessels would be destroyed. McMillan was arrested by Corporal John Piper and confessed that he had disposed of the stores and fittings from the vessels and then set the //Glenora// on fire. He said the owner, Genelle, had given him $2,000 to commit the crime. Genelle was in Victoria and he was arrested and charged. The //Glenora// was valued at $5,000.00. The insurance company was asked to help with the investigation but refused because Genelle did not have an interest in the insurance. At the trial, Genelle was acquitted and McMillan got ten years.((Jim Wallace, //Forty Mile to Bonanza: The North-West Mounted Police in the Klondike Gold Rush.// Calgary: Bunker to Bunker Publishing. 2000: 212-13.))