Orders of execution. Queen vs Wandering Spirit, Iron Body, Bad Arrow, Little Bear, Miserable Man, Man without Blood, Dressy Man, Round-the-Sky, Charles Ducharme, and Wah-Wah-Witch. Convicted of murder, Battleford, 1885.

Newsclips: (1) Proposed apartment site on Ave. B in Saskatoon. (2) United Way luncheon at John's Prime Rib House in Saskatoon (silent). (3 & 4) Isobel Anderson on economic conditions. Money being counted, travellers cheques, and Isobel Anderson (wildsound). (5) Bill Shukin on field crops (wildsound). (6 & 7) James Lynch on proposed apartment complex in Saskatoon's chinatown district. Exterior/interior of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. (8 & 9) Mr. Mack on proposed Chinatown apartment complex. (10) Lady Godiva ride through University of Saskatchewan campus. (11) Bill McKnight on grain transportation. (12) Bill McKnight on Jack Horner. (13) Unidentified murder investagation. (14) Unknown ceremony/ritual at Saskatoon Indian & Metis Friendship Centre.

News compilation: 1) Cliff Scott, father of missing child Kathy Scott, speaks to other parents about child safety. (colour) 2) Silent footage of lake and wooded areas. An unidentified man encourages citizens to contact police with information about the missing children, Kathy Scott and Samantha Turner. (colour) 3) Footage of police conducting a house to house search in the Sutherland area of Saskatoon. (silent, colour) 4) Silent footage of a police search. A photograph of Kathy Scott. Cliff Scott appeals to the kidnappers for the return of his daughter. (colour) 5) Chief Jim Kettles says in an interview that Saskatoon police have asked the RCMP and police services all across Canada for help in locating the missing children. (colour) 6) Police chief Jim Kettles is interviewed saying that the Darlene Cranfield and Robert Grubesic abduction case has been complicated by the disappearance of two more children. (colour) Jim Kettles and Hugh Fraser announce at the police station that the bodies of the four missing children have been found and that a person is in custody. (colour) 8) Footage of the Robert Grubesic funeral. (silent, colour) 9) Footage of the Kathy Scott funeral. (silent, colour) 10) Jan Aubrey reports from the Saskatoon courthouse on the proceedings of the David Threinen trial. (colour) 11) Footage of people waiting in the courthouse to gain admission to the Threinen trial. (silent, colour, b & w) 12) Man in the street comments about capital punishment. (colour) 13) Jan Aubrey reports about the inquiry into the riot at the Prince Albert provincial prison. Lawyer Ron Barkley of Regina speaks about the causes for the riot. (colour) 14) Jan Aubrey interviews guard Bob Briston who was taken hostage during the riot. (colour) 15) Leon Brin reports on the end of the inquiry into the provincial jail riot from the courthouse in Prince Albert. (colour) 16) Silent footage of spectators and the Saskatoon courthouse. Jan Aubrey reports on the preliminary hearing of David Threinen in the Saskatoon courthouse. (colour) 17) Jan Aubrey reports from the Saskatoon police station that four counts of murder have been laid against David Threinen. (colour) 18) Lorne Schaffer reports about the hostage taking at the Prince Albert Penitentiary. Director Jim O'Sullivan speaks about the plan to deal with inmates' requests. (colour) 19) The Prince Albert Penitentiary enquiry including footage of the prison. (silent, colour) 20) Footage of the Prince Albert hearing into the penitentiary riot. (silent, colour) 21) Director O'Sullivan discusses the murder of an inmate which occurred at the Prince Albert penitentiary. (colour)

Item is a framed colour lithograph is an artist rendition of the dead and dying at Frog Lake during the 1885 Rebellion event that has been characterised as the "Frog Lake Massacre." Image shows a First Nations man firing a rifle into a priest's back, a woman consoling a wounded man and applying a handkerchief to his chest, meanwhile four dead men lie on the ground nearby.

Illustration appeared in Canadian Pictorial and Illustrate War News, Souvenir Part 1 (1885-07-04, p. 7).

Sketches of court trials created in ink, pencil and watercolour. Approximately fifty-five to sixty of the sketches are of witnesses, defendant, judge, prosecutors and lawyers in the murder trial of Colin Thatcher, former Saskatchewan Cabinet minister and MLA.

News: (1) Fire (b&w silent). (2 to 5) Warren Allmand lectures on separatism. (6 & 7) Jean Claude Parrot on unions. (8) B'Nai B'Rith awards. (9) Fire at Caplan Cleaners in North Battleford. (10) Murder scene (silent). (11) CFQC radio tower comes down. (12) Student in wheelchair at Aden Bowman Collegiate. (13) Allan Blakeney at press conference (silent). (14 & 15) Wesley Maloney on road construction industry.

Murder in Uniform, written by Christina Lamont Stewart and Lynn Cameron Wilbert Hudson. An account of the homicide of Mary Wilson at the hands of her husband, John Wilson, a former Sergeant in the Royal North-West Mounted Police, on September 28, 1918 and the subsequent investigation by the Saskatchewan Provincial Police.

Murder on the Plains by R.G. Evans. Frontier Book No. 2 published by Frontier Publishing Ltd. of Calgary, Alberta.

Copy of document compiled by Lorraine Gadoury and Antonio Lechasseur of the Government Archives Division of the National Archives of Canada. Also included is a supplementary index relating to persons sentenced to death in Saskatchewan, including areas previously part of the North-West Territories, and persons sentenced to death as a result of the 1885 Rebellion.