L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)
1826 - Strange Robbery Attempt

The editor of the Montreal Herald, has received an account of an attempt to commit a robbery at L'Acadie, but does not know the person who sent it, and therefore cannot vouch for it. The story is, that on the evening of the 8th, two men, with a weighty bag, called at Mrs. Le Roy's house, and asked for lodging, but she could not accommodate them. They then asked permission to leave the bag until morning, as they were much fatigued. To this she consented. The men carried the bag into a room where Mrs. Le Roy's son slept. - About 10, at night, the young man perceived the bag move - informed his mother, but she supposed it to be his imagination and did not examine it. The son saw it move again, rose, seized a gun, and discharged it at the bag, which aroused the family, who on examining the bag, found a Mr. Labarge, with his arm and thigh broken with the shot, and who acknowledged himself and accomplices had a nefarious design. About 2 A. M. his accomplices appeared at the door, but finding persons there, they fled.

New-York Daily Advertiser
New York
October 31, 1826

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