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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would have come with a force of 250 at least, prepared to compel them to respect the persons and property of his partners and himself. An exclamation then arose of, "he threatens us," and Williams immediately ordered John Clarke and one Brown to take him into custody, which they did, each of them giving him a blow at the time, for they could do nothing without blows; whilst neither then, nor at any other time, was any warrant produced, or any authority, cause, or pretext, assigned for such arrest. But it is tiresome and sickening to dwell upon these repeated instances of lawless tyranny and brutal violence[;] the offended laws of the country will one day visit the perpetrators, and inflict legal punishment, however inadequate it may be to the real enormity of the offence and the disastrous and fatal consequences which ensued.
The three gentlemen, with the Iroquois Ogoniasto, and Edward Caine, Mr MacTavish's servant, who had also been arrested without any alleged pretext whatsoever, were, in the same manner as their predecessors, in captivity confined in the island at the foot of the rapid with a guard placed over them, who had orders to shoot
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