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The Wrangell Sentinel
Wrangell, Alaska
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Leon Winfield Jones, bearded and surviving on wild food, was calmly charged with murdering two men with an axe at an Alaska Indian camp on July 20, after an 11-day manhunt ending on the Alaska Highway.
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FAIRBANKS Heavily bearded after 11 days in the wilderness on a diet of berries, birds and porcupine pines, Leon Winfield Jones, 43, heard with outward calm last Friday the murder charges against him for the axe slaying of two men at an Indian camp July 20.
Caught Thursday in Alaska's most extensive modern manhunt, he stood uncommunicative as the charges were read before U. Commissioner Everett E Smith. The Big Delta military project carpenter was captured as he strolled on the Alaska Highway, 10 miles from where Donald R Harris, 33 and Carl Ahnstrom, 68-year old trapper and prospector, were bashed to death with an axe after an Indian camp drinking party.
Special Deputy Bill Cough, one of the many volunteers in the widespread manhunt, said Jones submitted without resistance after Cough recognized arm tattoos through a torn sleeve and gold teeth as shown in a widely distributed photograph.
He said Jones was carrying a .22 caliber rifle. He also was carrying part of a porcupine in a blanket over his shoulder.
Jones has worked on Alaska construction jobs for four months since coming north from Vancouver, Wash, where his wife and four children reside.
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Fairbanks, Alaska; Alaska Highway; Big Delta Military Project; Indian Camp
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July 20
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Leon Winfield Jones, a 43-year-old carpenter, was apprehended after 11 days in the wilderness following the axe slaying of Donald R. Harris, 33, and Carl Ahnstrom, 68, at an Indian camp drinking party on July 20. Captured on the Alaska Highway during a massive manhunt, he was charged with murder before U.S. Commissioner Everett E. Smith. Special Deputy Bill Cough recognized him by tattoos and gold teeth.