NEWS BY THE PANAMA MAIL.
(FBO3I THE PANAMA STAB AND HEEALD, APBIIi 24.)
CANADA: ASSASSINATION OF THE HON. d'aBCY m'GEE. New York, April 9, 1868. The city was startled on Tuesday by a despatch from Ottowa,Canada, announcing the assassination of D'Arcy M'Gee, The particulars are contained in the following despatches :—: — At half-past two o'clock this morning the Hon. D'Arcy M'Gee was shot dead by an unknown assassin as he was entering the house of Mrs Trotter, where he lodged, on Sparks street. The ball passed through his head and lodged in the door which Mr M'Gee was in the act of opening. A son of Mrs Trotter, who is one of the parliament pages, was returning home, and was some distance from the house when he heard the shot. On reaching his mother's door he found Mr M'Gee dead on the pavement. He saw no person the neighborhood and heard no footsteps. The night was bright and clear, and the assassin must have been either concealed behind the fence of a vacant lot opposite, or made a very hasty retreat immediately on firing the shot. Mr M'Gee had just left the Parliament House and had a cigar in his mouth when he was killed. His brains exuded from the wound, and the sidewalk was covered with his blood. This fact, in (Continued in paae 4>.J
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West Coast Times, Issue 840, 2 June 1868, Page 3
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