"Light as a swallow in the clouds, arrogant and soaring into the clouds." The lyrics of the lyrics to describe Albert Johnson could not be more appropriate, the strongest fugitive in history, who staged an unprecedented extreme challenge 90 years ago.
Pictured: The strongest fugitive, Albert Johnson
Albert Johnson was one of the top fur producers in Canada's northwestern frontier, the Yukon Region, which was once a top fur producer, attracted countless hunters to pan for gold. But as the influx of aliens began to dwindle, the number of furs began to decline, and the Yukon region gradually declined, with a group of people choosing to leave and Albert choosing to stay behind.
Albert is a low-key, non-verbal person, he rarely communicates with strangers, and always likes to be alone. Because of this, in December 1931, Albert stalled. Other hunters have found that the clips they catch their prey have recently been pulled out and thrown in a mess. Albert, a solitary and unkind "freak", naturally became the primary suspect of the hunters.
So The Orion called the police. On December 26, 1931, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police sent two officers to investigate Albert, and the two saw the chimney of Albert's cabin smoking from a distance, but no matter how they knocked, the door never opened. Since there was no warrant for arrest, the 2 mounted police officers could not force the door to break down and had to return to the city.
Pictured: Canadian Hunters Cabin
Two days later, 5 mounted police officers came again with a warrant, and this time Albert still did not open the door for them, and the mounted police had to break in. However, they underestimated Albert's toughness, and the moment the door was kicked open, the mounted police were greeted by a rain of bullets.
Albert occupied favorable terrain and used the wooden house as cover, and the mounted police were temporarily overwhelmed, paying the price of an officer injured. Because winter temperatures in the Yukon can drop to more than minus 40 degrees, the Mounted Police had to stop the operation and return to the city for the second time, taking into account the safety of the injured officers.
Albert thoroughly annoyed the Canadian Mounted Police. A few days later, 42 dog sledges carrying nine heavily armed RCMP officers made a comeback, and this time the RCMP had not only prepared enough ammunition but also brought 20 kilograms of explosives, and they decided to blow up Albert's wooden house first, regardless of 3721.
Pictured: The Albert Log Cabin that was blown up
With a "bang", Albert's cabin was blown to the ground. At this point, the mounted police finally breathed a sigh of relief, believing that Albert could not be alive even if he had three heads and six arms, so they let down their vigilance, cleaned up the "battlefield", and searched for Albert's body. The mounted police could not have imagined that Albert was really a six-armed Nezha, greeted by 20 kilograms of explosives, or not dead.
There was a cellar inside the cabin, and Albert hid in the cellar unharmed. When the mounted policemen let their guard down, he suddenly rushed out of the cellar, and the mounted police officers who hit him were caught off guard and fled. By the time the Mounted Police regrouped, Albert had long since disappeared into the snowy mountains.
At this point, the hunt for the fugitive Albert began. This is the longest, largest, most bounty, most hostile environment in Canadian history, and the most capable personal pursuit of fugitives. The pursuit team gathered police, soldiers, trace experts, hunters, etc., most of them were good at snow tracking, but it was such a group of masters who were tricked by Albert.
Pictured: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police involved in the round-up of Albert
On January 14, 1932, the multi-day snowstorm ceased and the pursuit team immediately entered action. Because it was an unprecedented hunt, there were radio stations involved in the live broadcast, attracting the attention of the whole of Canada.
Finally, half a month later, the pursuit team found Albert's footprints. However, it was found that the footprints were only the beginning, and the pursuit team always seemed to be half a beat slower than Albert, only to see that the footprints were not seen. The pursuers also wondered who Albert really was, there were planes searching in the sky, the ground pursuit team was chasing after them, and they were stunned that even Albert's figure had not been seen.
If Albert had been chased so easily, he would not have been called "the strongest fugitive in history." Let's first look at the equipment when Albert escaped, it is not just one person and one shot, when he left, he not only had enough dry food, but even brought pots and pans with him, and his whole body weight exceeded 80 pounds, equivalent to 72 pounds.
Pictured: Albert runs faster than a dog in the snow
Winter in the Yukon is almost covered in snow, but Albert weighs 80 pounds and can still be as light as a swallow, walking faster than a dog in the vast snowy mountains. Several times the pursuit team almost caught up with Albert in a dog sleigh, but because Albert ran faster than the dog, he successfully threw the pursuit team away.
Albert wasn't just athletic, his anti-reconnaissance skills were first-rate. The reason why Albert can repeatedly throw off the pursuit team, in addition to running fast, he also has many special skills, such as he will deliberately step on a road, and then walk backwards along the footprints, and then smooth the footprints at the fork to confuse the pursuit team. Sometimes, Albert would walk on the footprints of herds of wild deer, and thousands of wild deer would haunt them, enough to cover Up Albert's footprints and waste the time of the pursuit team.
Albert also had more dangerous times, but he was always able to overcome danger with his super physical fitness. Once, Albert was surrounded by the pursuit team under the cliff, the two sides broke out in a gun battle, watching the desperate situation, Albert still under the extreme challenge of 80 pounds, climbed up the cliff and ran away, Albert also killed one of the opposing mounted policemen, wounding several people.
Pictured: The hunting team has many experienced hunters
In the end, there was no way out, and the Canadian police brought in Wopmay, the ace pilot of World War I, to force Albert from the Richardson Mountains to the Eagle Valley on the Yukon border. The Eagle Valley is flat, the temperature is high, and the flora and fauna are abundant, which provides Albert with a good living environment, but it is also more exposed.
On February 17, 1932, the pursuit team finally surrounded Albert in the Eagle Valley, and another shootout broke out between the two sides, and finally due to the disparity between the two sides, Albert was killed by nine bullets after injuring several RCMP.
After Albert was killed, he also found 2400 Canadian dollars in cash and a bag of gold teeth from his backpack, which was a small rich man. The eight-week contest became an unprecedented escape operation in Canadian history.
Pictured: Albert who was killed
The reason why Albert is recorded in the history of crime, in addition to the name of the strongest fugitive in his history, his identity is also a huge mystery. What is Albert Johnson's real name? Who the hell is he? And where did it come from? These questions remain unanswered and have remained a mystery for 90 years. In order to decipher Albert's identity, later generations even opened his coffin and extracted DNA for testing, but there was still no progress.
Pictured: Albert guns from the Canadian Mounted Police Museum's collection
Who is Albert? No one knows. Some people say that he is like a lone wandering samurai, who originally only wanted to live in a low-key manner, but he became the target of the police pursuit, fought wits and courage with the police, and eventually became a legend.