Simpson, William S.:

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REPORT AT LARGE OF THE TRIAL OF CHARLES DE REINHARD FOR MURDER, (COMMITTED IN THE INDIAN TERRITORIES,) AT A COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER, HELD AT QUEBEC, MAY 1818. TO WHICH IS ANNEXED, A SUMMARY OF ... Account of an 1816 murder that arose out of the violent clashes between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company over Lord Selkirk's Red River Colony. "Owen Keveny, an HBC [Hudson's Bay Company] employee, was murdered September 11, 1816. Reinhard was convicted of the murder, while M'Lellan was acquitted. Jurisdictional disputes meant the sentence of death by hanging was never carried out" - Peel.

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