The engineer slowly moved the train up again and he shot his rifle again, then a third time. The train would finally stop and the RCMP detachment in Flin Flon was notified.
Constables Anderson and Schweitzer responded by taking a train, owned by the Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting (HBM&S) company, from the other direction to block the man on the track, putting a train behind him and a train in front of him.
McGregor, seeing the train in front of him now, stopped walking. Constable Anderson attempted to arrest the man but a shot was fired that thankfully missed him. It was then that police decided to bide their time until they could arrest the man safely.