Upper Canada Sketches:
"...September 3, 1792, 'His Majesty's Court of Oyer and Terminer, and General Gaol Delivery' opened at L'Assomption (now Sandwich, Ontario)... ."
"Grand Jurymen were called from both sides of the river--the Judge himself resided in Detroit--an inquisition was filed on the death at Michillinackinac of an Indian man Wawanisse, another respecting Pierre Lalonde killed at Saguina (Saginaw) by Louis Roy, another of the murder at Detroit of Pierre Grocher by an Indian man called Guillet--there had been also a murder of David Lynd, alias Jacko, on the River La Tranche (the present Thames) by two Indians."
"True bills were found by the Grand Jury against Louis Roy, Guillet and Josiah Cutan of Detroit (for burglary). Roy was acquitted of murder... . Cutan, a coloured man, was found, guilty of burglary at Ste. Anne's and sentenced to death. Guillet was not arrested nor were the two Indians who slew Jacko."
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