Lieutenant-Colonel Felix Crooke was with the Royal American Mounted Police and based in Victoria. He was a stocky, pale, clean-shaven man with black hair and blue eyes. He was the RAM's expert on the Sons of Liberty and accompanied Lieutenant General Sir Horace Bragg on his train trip from Victoria to New Liverpool when the Sons stole The Two Georges. The next morning Crooke met up with Bushell at the airship port and together they boarded the Empire Builder. Crooke went to his stateroom for the takeoff and then joined Bushell and Captain Samuel Stanley in the dinning room for breakfast.