PRELIMINARY OB6£iYATJOHS. IB 



Mainville. and Joseph, Son-of-the-Whi^e-Patridge. It had 

 much blood in it. together with the trunks, and clothes worn by 

 Kereny, but Keveny himself was not thai* On examining the 



cat, there wai percehred to be a ball hole, and an incision, in 

 different parts of it. Kcvcny's trunks were then landed, un- 

 locked, and a division made pf his clothes, linen, and other ef- 

 fects. De Reinhard wiped the blood from his sword, declaring 

 in the hearing of the men. as if glorying in the perpetration ot 

 the act, that lie had killed him, and was entitled to the best ap- 

 parel, which he accordingly appropriated to himself. Main- 

 ville took the perforated coat. 



The facts of this foul deed appeared to be these. Keveny, 

 with the three persons left with him, by the Northwest partners, 

 embarked in a small Indian canoe, to ascend the river. He 

 complained of being unwell, and was landed at a certain spot. 

 De Reinhard, Mainville, and Joseph, waited at the beach. De 

 Reinhard stood near the canoe as Keveny re-embarked, and 

 suddenly drawing a short sword, thrust it into his body. 

 Keveny doubled down under the blow, but being a tall and 

 powerful man, (although weakened by disease,) he recovered 

 himself, seized the blade of the sword, and would have 

 wrenched it away and overpowered the assassin, had he not 

 called to Mainville to fire. The latter obeyed. The ball passed 

 through Kcveny's neck, and he instantly fell. It does not seem 

 that the Indian participated in the act. The body was stripped 

 and left on shore, unburied. Two years after (i. e. IS 18,) De 

 Reinhard, who had, it seems, been a subaltern officer in one of 

 the disbanded foreign regiments, was tried for the murder at 

 Quebec, proved guilty, (by his own confessions to the men at 

 the i -ni •ampment,) and sentenced to the gallows. Mainville 

 escaped. 



