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er, made a death bed revelation.

On that November morning, years before, Smith had surprised the murders of Downey while walking to Charlottetown by way of Todd's Road. Overpowered and knowing that the evidence could be reversed against him, he had sworn a solemn oath never to

tell the terrible secret.‘

Contrary to what has often been written, it is be- lieved that Smith would not and did not, give the

names of the two killers whom he had.recognized.

Guilty or not, however, the suspicion and hostility of the countryside was now directed towards two brothers of the Crapaud district. These men and their families were forced to flee, out of the pro- vince for New Brunswick where, it was reported

later, they both met death in violent form.

The far end of a wooded ravine off the Todd Road and

the mouldering remains of a great tree stump marks i

the place, so well described by Smith, where he

came upon the scene of murder and a dead body in the

bloody snow.