Wyandotte News Herald - September 23, 1881
Murder
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Abraham Brisbois Shot Dead in the
House of Andrew Beaudrey
Sometime last Sunday night, between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. of Monday, Abraham Brisbois, a farmer of Ecorse township, living 1 ½ miles north west of Ecorse village, was shot in the head and instantly killed while sleeping at the house of Andrew Beaudrey, a farmer living about four miles south of Brisbois. Brisbois is a thresher and had gone to Beaudrey's Sunday night with his men and machine to commence threshing Monday morning. His men slept in the barn, but Brisbois was shown to a back upper chamber in the house by Beaudrey, at about 10 o'clock. No one else slept in the second story and only Beaudrey and his wife slept on the first floor of the house. The next morning Brisbois was found dead in his bed lying on his back in a pool of blood, with bullet wounds on the right side of his nose. It has seemed to be almost impossible to invent a reasonable theory to account for this cold blooded murder. The murderer is yet undiscovered, and the inquest is in progress (Thursday). Although many theories have been broached and rumors set afloat, there seems to be no clear chain of evidence pointing in any direction.
Brisbois was a genial, easy man, who was not supposed to have any enemies. Beaudrey has always borne a good character and been respected, and suspicion is not fastened yet, as far as we can learn, with grounds anywhere.
A singular circumstance seems to be that no one was awakened by the shot, and nothing was known of the deed till Brisbois was found the next morning. Mrs. Beaudrey says she heard some one in the house and in her room while her husband was showing Brisbois to his room, but supposed it to be her husband. The post mortem examination on Tuesday last, held by Dr. Walker of Detroit and Christian of Wyandotte, revealed the fact that the ball entered on the right side of the nose and passed through the brain and was found on the left side of the back of the head. The testimony taken at the inquest held by Justice Salliotte of Ecorse has not yet been made public. The trouble is to find a motive sufficient for the committing of such a deed. It was not robbery, as nothing was disturbed about the house.
It is said, with how much truth we do not know, that Brisbois was thought to be on too intimate terms with women, and that some one, to avenge a real or fancied injury in this direction, committed the atrocious deed. The event has caused great excitement in the community, as it is the second murder committed in the vicinity in the short time of about fifteen months, and in both cases the author of the villainy is yet undiscovered. Every effort will be made to unearth the author of the crime and bring him to justice.
Murder
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Abraham Brisbois Shot Dead in the
House of Andrew Beaudrey
Sometime last Sunday night, between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. of Monday, Abraham Brisbois, a farmer of Ecorse township, living 1 ½ miles north west of Ecorse village, was shot in the head and instantly killed while sleeping at the house of Andrew Beaudrey, a farmer living about four miles south of Brisbois. Brisbois is a thresher and had gone to Beaudrey's Sunday night with his men and machine to commence threshing Monday morning. His men slept in the barn, but Brisbois was shown to a back upper chamber in the house by Beaudrey, at about 10 o'clock. No one else slept in the second story and only Beaudrey and his wife slept on the first floor of the house. The next morning Brisbois was found dead in his bed lying on his back in a pool of blood, with bullet wounds on the right side of his nose. It has seemed to be almost impossible to invent a reasonable theory to account for this cold blooded murder. The murderer is yet undiscovered, and the inquest is in progress (Thursday). Although many theories have been broached and rumors set afloat, there seems to be no clear chain of evidence pointing in any direction.
Brisbois was a genial, easy man, who was not supposed to have any enemies. Beaudrey has always borne a good character and been respected, and suspicion is not fastened yet, as far as we can learn, with grounds anywhere.
A singular circumstance seems to be that no one was awakened by the shot, and nothing was known of the deed till Brisbois was found the next morning. Mrs. Beaudrey says she heard some one in the house and in her room while her husband was showing Brisbois to his room, but supposed it to be her husband. The post mortem examination on Tuesday last, held by Dr. Walker of Detroit and Christian of Wyandotte, revealed the fact that the ball entered on the right side of the nose and passed through the brain and was found on the left side of the back of the head. The testimony taken at the inquest held by Justice Salliotte of Ecorse has not yet been made public. The trouble is to find a motive sufficient for the committing of such a deed. It was not robbery, as nothing was disturbed about the house.
It is said, with how much truth we do not know, that Brisbois was thought to be on too intimate terms with women, and that some one, to avenge a real or fancied injury in this direction, committed the atrocious deed. The event has caused great excitement in the community, as it is the second murder committed in the vicinity in the short time of about fifteen months, and in both cases the author of the villainy is yet undiscovered. Every effort will be made to unearth the author of the crime and bring him to justice.
Wyandotte News Herald - September 23, 1881
Murder
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Abraham Brisbois Shot Dead in the
House of Andrew Beaudrey
Sometime last Sunday night, between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. of Monday, Abraham Brisbois, a farmer of Ecorse township, living 1 ½ miles north west of Ecorse village, was shot in the head and instantly killed while sleeping at the house of Andrew Beaudrey, a farmer living about four miles south of Brisbois. Brisbois is a thresher and had gone to Beaudrey's Sunday night with his men and machine to commence threshing Monday morning. His men slept in the barn, but Brisbois was shown to a back upper chamber in the house by Beaudrey, at about 10 o'clock. No one else slept in the second story and only Beaudrey and his wife slept on the first floor of the house. The next morning Brisbois was found dead in his bed lying on his back in a pool of blood, with bullet wounds on the right side of his nose. It has seemed to be almost impossible to invent a reasonable theory to account for this cold blooded murder. The murderer is yet undiscovered, and the inquest is in progress (Thursday). Although many theories have been broached and rumors set afloat, there seems to be no clear chain of evidence pointing in any direction.
Brisbois was a genial, easy man, who was not supposed to have any enemies. Beaudrey has always borne a good character and been respected, and suspicion is not fastened yet, as far as we can learn, with grounds anywhere.
A singular circumstance seems to be that no one was awakened by the shot, and nothing was known of the deed till Brisbois was found the next morning. Mrs. Beaudrey says she heard some one in the house and in her room while her husband was showing Brisbois to his room, but supposed it to be her husband. The post mortem examination on Tuesday last, held by Dr. Walker of Detroit and Christian of Wyandotte, revealed the fact that the ball entered on the right side of the nose and passed through the brain and was found on the left side of the back of the head. The testimony taken at the inquest held by Justice Salliotte of Ecorse has not yet been made public. The trouble is to find a motive sufficient for the committing of such a deed. It was not robbery, as nothing was disturbed about the house.
It is said, with how much truth we do not know, that Brisbois was thought to be on too intimate terms with women, and that some one, to avenge a real or fancied injury in this direction, committed the atrocious deed. The event has caused great excitement in the community, as it is the second murder committed in the vicinity in the short time of about fifteen months, and in both cases the author of the villainy is yet undiscovered. Every effort will be made to unearth the author of the crime and bring him to justice.
Murder
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Abraham Brisbois Shot Dead in the
House of Andrew Beaudrey
Sometime last Sunday night, between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. of Monday, Abraham Brisbois, a farmer of Ecorse township, living 1 ½ miles north west of Ecorse village, was shot in the head and instantly killed while sleeping at the house of Andrew Beaudrey, a farmer living about four miles south of Brisbois. Brisbois is a thresher and had gone to Beaudrey's Sunday night with his men and machine to commence threshing Monday morning. His men slept in the barn, but Brisbois was shown to a back upper chamber in the house by Beaudrey, at about 10 o'clock. No one else slept in the second story and only Beaudrey and his wife slept on the first floor of the house. The next morning Brisbois was found dead in his bed lying on his back in a pool of blood, with bullet wounds on the right side of his nose. It has seemed to be almost impossible to invent a reasonable theory to account for this cold blooded murder. The murderer is yet undiscovered, and the inquest is in progress (Thursday). Although many theories have been broached and rumors set afloat, there seems to be no clear chain of evidence pointing in any direction.
Brisbois was a genial, easy man, who was not supposed to have any enemies. Beaudrey has always borne a good character and been respected, and suspicion is not fastened yet, as far as we can learn, with grounds anywhere.
A singular circumstance seems to be that no one was awakened by the shot, and nothing was known of the deed till Brisbois was found the next morning. Mrs. Beaudrey says she heard some one in the house and in her room while her husband was showing Brisbois to his room, but supposed it to be her husband. The post mortem examination on Tuesday last, held by Dr. Walker of Detroit and Christian of Wyandotte, revealed the fact that the ball entered on the right side of the nose and passed through the brain and was found on the left side of the back of the head. The testimony taken at the inquest held by Justice Salliotte of Ecorse has not yet been made public. The trouble is to find a motive sufficient for the committing of such a deed. It was not robbery, as nothing was disturbed about the house.
It is said, with how much truth we do not know, that Brisbois was thought to be on too intimate terms with women, and that some one, to avenge a real or fancied injury in this direction, committed the atrocious deed. The event has caused great excitement in the community, as it is the second murder committed in the vicinity in the short time of about fifteen months, and in both cases the author of the villainy is yet undiscovered. Every effort will be made to unearth the author of the crime and bring him to justice.
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