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Linden MacIntyre: IF CASH MACMILLAN TOLD ME TO STAY AWAY, I'D STAY AWAY.
Cash MacMillan: Would you?
Linden MacIntyre: WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS GUY?
Cash MacMillan: I – I don't know. He's put the fear into so many people, maybe he just figured everybody should be scared of him. I don't – I don't know.
Linden MacIntyre: YOU HAD HEARD A LOT ABOUT THIS GUY'S DARK SIDE.
Cash MacMillan: As it went on, yes, I, I started – information came about him. And I was warned to stay away from him, that he was dangerous.
Linden MacIntyre: WHO WARNED YOU OF THAT?
Cash MacMillan: Friends, Rico, my friend Rico, a relative, my brother. My wife offered more information that she knew. She grew up in Mayerthorpe so she knew a little bit more than I did. I was blind coming into that. I'm – it was all new to me.
Linden MacIntyre: SO THEY'RE SAYING THIS GUY'S A BIT OF A JUNKYARD DOG, YOU GOT TO WATCH HIM?
Cash MacMillan: Yeah.
Linden MacIntyre: WHAT, WHAT DID YOU THINK?
Cash MacMillan: Well I started to worry about my family, because I thought when I'm, when I'm there, there's no problem. He's not going to get past me. But when I'm away, I don't know, I feared for my family. So that's when I involved the RCMP, hoping that they would take over and stop this.
Linden MacIntyre: OKAY, TELL ME ABOUT THAT. HOW DID THAT UNFOLD?
Cash MacMillan: Well the first couple of calls I never
gave a name. I said this fellow's coming around our place. What are, what are
my rights? He's doing, he's parking in front of my house, he's parking
in the alley. He's directly – he'll park and stare right
into the windows. It's not like he's sitting there waiting for someone or
doing a different thing. He's there and he knows when I'm not there. Like if
I'm going to work at 8 o'clock each morning, he's there at ten after 8.
If I'm coming home at lunch, he's gone by ten to 12 kind
of thing. So he's, this is intentional what he's doing, what he's
attempting to do. And the police told me at the time that they would come down
and have a look, you know, maybe see what he's up to.
Maybe ask him a question
or two. But they never did. And, and he started coming around more often and
my wife started getting more upset. So then I let them know. I said this is the
Jim Roszko and he's bothering my wife.
So then they come down and talk to me, exactly what is he doing? I
told them he's never entered the yard, he's just parked in the front,
parked in the back. So they told me that it was a public street, public property,
he could do what he wanted.
So then, a couple more instances, he showed up in my backyard.
Look at my wife was washing dishes. She looked out the window and he was right
there.
Linden MacIntyre: IN THE YARD.
Cash MacMillan: Yes, looking up into the kitchen window. So soon as they made eye contact, he left and she phoned me and phoned the police. They would do nothing. They would have nothing to do with it.
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Linden MacIntyre: SO EVENTUALLY HE, THIS SORT OF GOT A LITTLE BIT OUT OF CONTROL. TELL ME ABOUT HOW THAT DEVELOPED.
Cash MacMillan: I had a phone call early in February - I believe it was February. 1998. Yes. My wife called me at work. I was supposed to go out on a job. I wasn't. I was in my shop. She phoned and she was upset and he had been there. He had not been there for about a week. So she thought maybe he was gone.
And then he was pulling up in front of the house again. She was vacuuming and she looked out the window and he was out there. She got upset. She phoned me. I said I'll take an early lunch. It was about 11:30, I believe, when I left the shop. When I pulled up in front of the house, there was no one there. I was driving Dale's pickup. I was with Dale. I didn't bring my vehicle down. I don't know why. It's just the vehicle we jumped into.
And I walked up to the door. I met her, my wife at the door. She was very upset, very pregnant. And she looked over my shoulder and said there he is. And he was just rolling up behind Dale's pickup. And as he came into view, there's a row of bushes, so you kind of - at the last second, his passenger window came into view as we were turning and our eyes met. And when he seen me, he just turned out and he took off in his pickup. There was another fellow with him, a younger fellow.
Linden MacIntyre: A BOY.
Cash MacMillan: Yeah. A young native guy. Yeah. So we proceeded to – we
took chase in Dale's pickup, through the town, high rate of speed. I
was very upset and I was going to deal with this now.
And I got beside him behind the – there's an alley that
runs behind some of the restaurants uptown. I managed to push his truck off the
road and he – when he skidded to a stop, he was up against a telephone
poll.
So I quickly backed in behind him so the truck couldn't move.
And that's when I approached him at the window and just like proceeded.
Linden MacIntyre: SO LET'S – I MEAN THIS SOUNDS PRETTY ORDINARY TO YOU BUT IT SOUNDS KIND OF WILD TO ME. I MEAN YOU'RE, YOU CHASE HIM THROUGH TOWN, YOU JAM UP AGAINST A POWER POLL. SO TAKE ME STEP BY STEP. WHAT DID YOU DO THEN? YOU GOT HIS TRUCK UNDER CONTROL. THEN WHAT DID YOU DO?
Cash MacMillan: I, basically I said stay away from me and the family.
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