AN ESCAPED convict: apprehended. | in Horseshoe
~ Saturday ‘after a lengthy manhunt was" slated 10° appea rin
_ West Vancouver: prov incial court today.

Robert James: Watson, 43,. was
‘eaptured after a: tS“:hour, doar-
Jro-dou, “search thar saw heavily

armed police,::dogs’ and a
«helicopter, combing the :communi-
tye :

with a-oweupon,
and being

sexual «assault

‘unlawful, confinement

“unlawfully at large®
West Vane ouver

Sept.s2. from a prison in Bowden,

‘Alta., — was in the area when they. ;
received.a call early Saturday from:

ca woman.who ‘said -she had escaped

froma man who: kidnapped her in :

_ Grand Forks,

“> Watson was’ scheduléd.to appear 3
‘in. court, early, today charged with ©

“tured in Alberta,-but the se
“Watson “moved «to! this © province
Police: when an atlempted abduction was

suspected Watson — who escaped =

eporier

Watson and. another, man
escaped from prison by. smashing

through the fence in a firestruck. °

Watson's companion. was. recap-

reported in Sparwood, B.C. 7
The. 33-vear-old.. woman,
name cannot-be published because

she is the victim of an alleged Sex: °

ual assault, has returned to Grand

Forks, said West Vancouver: Police

THE: SEARCH for Carlo. (Charlie) “Musso,” ; ‘missing ‘on
“Mount ‘Seymour. since Labour ‘Day, was. officially: called . off

wh sL think: he! s 5 still alive, maybe’
> hurt,??- Musso's: wife; Maria,. told:
"the, News. \'God,"l' wish | I knew,"":
“she said: “Sometimes we don’t feel.
“that way, (hopeful), but” otherwise .
we are.) ae vel
* Search officials called: off. the:
: search late Saturday,’ but: a:small .

group of about a ‘dozen kept look- :-

ing ‘Sunday’ for Musso, 61,: who:

went. missing = Labour: Day: “afters:

‘apparently, going. for’ a hike. on, the.
mountain.:.;

wus Every. spot “has: just about been | Labour. Day.:

covered,’’ said® North. and «West
> Mancouver
‘coordinator ‘Jeff Jefferd.”
“: certainly. did not look: very “good:

‘fromthe fact that there’ s no. voice |. “We. still

response.” :
*: Searchers"got a, glimmer: of, hope!

Saturday when, _uacking.: dogs’
; pick p'a human :scent
ice Bluffs. and Theta’:

|, Bute: both” trails led

Classified: ‘Ads. Se
Doug Collins :

nowhere.”

‘Emergency © Program. :
Things

Se pain io

: equipment:
came in,”? said Jefferd,|w hovadded :
sathat 14, searchers. spent: the ‘night

oly STEPHEN BARRING TON:
'. News Reporter“:
went down

“Every time? they.

_ there. (in’ the ‘bluffs area), - they >

picked up’ a ‘scent,’ said “Jefferd:
“Then it
‘nothing.””

JAY total: of 49 ers, track”

ing dogs’ and various helicopters:
“have combed the! mountain since,

‘Musso™ was. listed asm

RCMP. Searcher. Cst::
Campbell. said“, Tuesday
Musso’s. disappearance © is”

‘treated -as'aimissing persor

‘feel; he’s. up.o
‘mountain somewhere,’

: Campbell

‘. 1 : 1 | +
“I there were,some real clues toe
his whereabouts (the search] would |

be remounted), ” said | ‘Jefferd.

“since Monday he won't:be alivi

On Cypress Bowl Sunda
ing, searchers found
who -. had.

~ there

ma °
Brody, 7 were » discovered cold: but

uninjured at6a.m, when’ searchers
= established : voice contact with jthe

were. “just
away.) when,

“We

that’ ‘call

looking for,the-V. Walkers. !
Wandering ‘of f’the owe
“Crest Trail’ at: ‘Cypre Bowl,
cWalkers “were! “separated: from
Maureen Walker and® daughter
“who! fell! ‘behind, but:

‘then Me ched the parking lot first.
* The two, lost hikers Were found
and.

n: the ;Lembke : “Creek area:

“taken ‘out by helicopter: a
“North ‘Shore Rescue Team head

Ross : Peterson said hikers should

“always carry a change of clothes,'a

cover: of "some sort matches, ‘a

whistle and flasnlight.

tive fad li
ooner,.than’ ex

rch for:

whose =:

just’: petered out to’

-plitting our :

> Sound :
the «:

‘Sate Frank Aikenhead.

He: said: he did not know if. the

“woman would have ‘io return to the

municipality to-appear in court.

The woman told police.a-mian -
to: drive

had. forced. her. Friday
trom. Grand: Forks: to West:
couver, :

- Bypassing police
Osoyoos, Princeton
they: travelled to the coast. where
the woman ,managed | to! escape

Van-

when the.man fell asleep i in'the car.,

while it was“parked Jin'a, lot near
the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal:
From “initial” ;reports, .: police

. feared: Watson was heavily armed.
‘They consequently went door-to-
= door:

residents to Stay ‘inside| and lock

in Horseshoe Buy! advising

their doors.

About 25° heavily, armed ‘police

Emergency: Response
ed the drea Saturday searching for
_Watson, Poo

roadblocks "in:
and Hope, ©

head camesup over! the fence,

trlan:
‘behind the ne
. knew thatwa

A

ed convict to cme

from West Vancouver, Vancouver,

and ~ North. Vancouv RCMP 's

Officers < with |: dogs carchied

through backyards ‘asia helicopter /
seeping, Wwe atch.

hovered overhead

- over the community:

At ‘about) 10. ‘p.m.
night, : Bruce. Street: resident:
Huntington wenl «cut onto
balcony:

“The minute, i dia. that wi the
minute ‘the. guy “stood: up

“Guy

Huntington: said in a News inter-
view. ;

Ob thought
All Q ;

cam comb:.

‘Saturday :

“his:

isis

soi

‘ington, ‘who then called: polic .
ust was just chance, actually.”
Watson was arrested without ine
cident -about- five. “minutes: later"
near Huntington's two-storey”
“house. ~The-, man’s” clothes owe

“Aikenhead. °
“twas just bizarre, ty Horseshoe’
Bay-area | residént © Ingrid Octter
“said. of the «manhunt: -‘‘(Police)*
“were dressed in camouflage, with
blackened. faces. and
machine guns,’” said Octters
Hearing «furthers details ‘of the °
incident. later,” Huntington: said: - -
“Ff Pd have: known what! he was: :
like] wouldn't have gone out on
«the balcony."? 7
Aikenhead’; praised the’ citizens
of Horseshoe Bay: for. their’ coop-
ération and a sistance.

., Firefighters, in: all ‘lees No

for: mu cular, dystrophy th

seized as: possible evidence, said a res