Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre)
1839 - Murder in Canada

The body of a Mr. Tasche, the seigneur of Kamouraska, was found a little below Quebec, with a bullet hole through the head, on the 3d inst. It seems that he received his death wound at the hands of a Dr. Holmes, of Sorel, with whom his wife had been engaged in maintaining a guilty connexion [sic]. Dr. Holmes fled to Burlington, Vt., where he stated that he had killed Tasche in a duel, which he (Holmes) Had endeavored to avoid, but which Tasche had forced him to fight. The Doctor has been arrested at Burlington, at the instance of a police officer from Montreal, and at the last accounts was in custody of the sheriff. The Montreal Herald says that Madame Tasche has been arrested, charged with having been an accessary [sic] to the murder of her husband. She is accused of having twice attempted to poison him, but failed both times.
Boston Post.

Sun
Maryland
February 23, 1839

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