These wounds might not have proved fatal; but there was a subsequent blow, with a small tomahawk, upon his forehead, above the left eye.

He was entirely dead, and had been found so, on searching for him at night, by his wife.

It appeared that he had been drinking during the evening and night, with an Indian half-breed of the Chippewa River, of the name of Gaulthier.

This fellow, finding he had killed him, had taken his canoe and fled.

Both had been intoxicated.