Tracadie, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada (Upper Big Tracadie)
1887 - ARRESTED ON SUSPICION

HALIFAX, N.S., Nov. 8. Four years ago James Bowie, a French youth of 17 years, shot and killed a farmer named Donald McDonald at Tracadie, Antigonish county. The murder was deliberate and cold blooded and was the result of a family dispute over a piece of land. Bowie's father stood by at the time of the murder and prompted the boy to the deed. The youth escaped to the United States, and all trace of him was for a time lost. Recently information was received from East Cambridge, Mass, that the Chief of Police there had under surveilance a young man supposed to be James Bowie. The case was taken in hand by the authorities here, with the result that the suspected party was arrested in East Cambridge this morning. The accused gives the name of Pitts, and denies all knowledge of the crime with which he is charged. The Dominion and the United States authorities are now in correspondence on the case, and the necessary papers asking for extradition will be forwarded from Nova Scotia. Bowie's father is now serving a life sentence in Dorchester penitentiary for his share in McDonald's murder as above stated. He was first sentenced to be hanged, but the sentence was commuted.

Boston Evening Journal
Boston, Massachusetts
November 9, 1887

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