In March 1935, several Fraser Valley newspapers reported the robbing and kidnapping of Agassiz taxi driver Charles Inkman. On a foggy Friday night on March 2, Inkman picked up three men in his taxi from a concert in Agassiz. A “towel was thrown around his neck and he was dragged into the rear compartment of his car.”1 The men robbed him of $10 (about $195 in 2021). Two of the men held him down while the third man drove the car.2 The trip to Vancouver took several hours due to the fog. When they arrived at 4:00 a.m., Inkman was taken to a downtown resort.
Newspapers are a wonderful resource for historians—I’ve been
