79:, have extended a reprieve to him, for he certainly would not have lived very long in confinement, and the fact that he never ran across law and order in any shape until the latter years of his long life made many hope that he would be allowed to finish his career in the confinement of the penitentiary.” Baptized shortly before his death, he was given the first name "Peter", a name never used in his lifetime. There may have been feelings of sympathy for the old man at the hanging, but there is only one request for clemency on file; and in the time preceding his execution, the newspapers and their readers seemed indifferent about Slumach's fate.
54:, opposite Sturgeon Creek. Bee was shot from the shore as he was sitting in a canoe with “Seymour”, a fellow fisherman. There were no other witnesses to the murder. The motive of the murder had probably more to do with liquor rather than, as some have suggested, gold. Both Bee and Seymour had before done
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