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.

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

[-]stance that John MacLeod, the person upon whose sole testimony the charge against Joseph Paul, Pierre Paul, and Pierre Boucher was grounded, and who was also one of the party at the Grand Rapid when they were taken, instead of being sent down with them as a witness, as must have been the case had there existed any intention of bringing them to trial, was sent off from the Rock depot to winter at English River, a distance up the country of upwards of three thousand miles in a contrary direction.

More stress is here laid on various circumstances that appear foreign to the relation of M^r Frobisher's individual sufferings and deplorable fate than would be necessary in a mere narrative; but this is done because they all illustrate the malignant spirit that pervaded the perpetrators of the outrage under the effects of which that unfortunate gentleman suffered worse than death – death in all its bitterness – death preceeded, as he himself well described it, by "the last stage of wretchedness."

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