PUNISHMENT OVERTAKES THE MURDERER.
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this respect do the Indians differ in the account from that which I have given, and which is said to have been the confession of the murderer himself.[1]
I learn from Michel Cadotte, and the venerable John Baptist Corbin, who came into the Ojibway country when he was twenty years of age and has remained fifty-six years, that this event occurred just one hundred and thirty years ago, in the year 1722.
- ↑ This story as told by the trader, William Morrison, in August, 1822, appeared in the Detroit Gazette, and is reprinted in Vol. VIII. of Wisconsin Historical Collections. The published account says the tragedy of killing the trader, his wife and child, occurred during the winter of 1760–61, and that on his way to Montreal for trial he was released on the St. Lawrence River, and fought with the Indians against the British. His boasting of his murders took place at a dance near Sault Ste. Marie. The Indians, disgusted with his tale of cruelty, invited him to a feast, and as soon as he commenced to eat, he was informed by the chief that as soon as he stopped, he would be killed. He ate for a long time, but at last had to stop, when he was soon lifeless. His body was boiled, but the young men would not eat, for they said "he was worse than a bad dog."—E.D.N.
