Wilcocke, Samuel Hull. Narrative of Circumstances attending the death of the late Benjamin Frobisher, Esquire a partner of the North West Company of Montreal, ca. 1820 [Revised Text]. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0020
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were presented at him, but he knocked the muzzles up with his arm; he was however, soon overpowered, rudely bid to hold his tongue, and was pushed forward at the point of the bayonet.
They were then conducted to the foot of the rapid, where they were all put into the tent or lodge of Racette, in which the two men, Majeau and Boucher, were confined. The two clerks were however, liberated, and were about reembarking, when Mr Frobisher, whom they detained, as they said, because he had attempted to defend himself, finding that there neither was, nor could be, any legal ground to apprehend him, attempted to follow them to the canoes, but was knocked back with the buttends of the musquets of the soldiery; and now a scene of brutal ill-treatment took place, the consequences of which upon that gentleman's frame were such as, if not entirely, yet in a great measure, led to his untimely and miserable death. It is best detailed in the unembellished words of the deposition of Charles Racette. "La deposant étant alors dans
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