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woven. Ouellet's relations were getting anxi- 

 ous at his non-appearance and made inqui- 

 ries. The description of the body found on 



the North Shore tallied with his. P was the 



man who had last seen him alive. Suspicion rest- 

 ed upon him, and he was arrested and convicted 

 on entirely circumstantial evidence, eliciting the 

 facts above stated, and was hanged at Murray 

 Bay. After his death rumors were current that 

 probably this was not his first victim. A Syrian 

 peddlar had disappeared in that region in a 

 mysterious manner. Some foundation for this 

 rumor is found in the fact that some years later 

 the skeletons of two persons were found on his 

 farm, which was near the sea shore. Were they 



really victims of P or the bodies of some 



shipwrecked sailors buried there? No one can 

 tell! 



