Mountie shot dead in 1913 finally gets regimental headstone at Edmonton cemetery

It was coming onto dusk when Cpl. Maxwell Bailey and two fellow North West Mounted Police officers arrived on horseback at the property of Oscar Fonberg at Grassy Lake, near present day Vegreville.
It was April 23, 1913, and the province was gripped by an unseasonably warm spell. Fonberg was wanted on a warrant of insanity — a legitimate charge in those days — after shooting at a neighbour.
At the sight of the Mounties, Fonberg fled his ramshackle shanty and hid in a dugout