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Grey River Argus, Volume VI, Issue 386, 4 July 1868, Page 3

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Mr D'Arcy M'Gee was buried at Montreal on April 13, and 20,000 persons joined the funeral procession. The evidence that Whelan was the assassin is accumulating. Montreal, April 17. All the correspondence which has passed between the Fenian lodges in New York and Montreal has been seized by the Government, and a grand exodus of prominent Irishmen from. Canada to the United States commenced this afternoon in consequence. Over 400 persons are implicated in the correspondence. It is reported that an international case will be made of it, as documents have been discovered which, tend to show that the murder of Mr M'Gee was plotted in New York and approved of before a committee in Montreal. Ottawa, April 18. This morning Whelan was committed for trial for the murder of M'Gee. It has been discovered that some pipes which passed through the prisoner Whelin's cell, had been taken off. The prisoner was at once searched, when a piece of iron nine inches long was found concealed under his arm and between his two shirts. This circumstance does not tend to lessen the suspicion against him. A large number of parties have suddenly left Ottawa, anticipating evidence implicating them in M'Gee's assassination, in possession of the authorities. A despatch from Ottawa, dated April 21, states that Whelan has been committed for trial for the murder of M'Gee. It is reported that evidence has been discovered which proves that the murder was planned by forty Fenians, that lots were cast as to who should execute the deed, and that lot fell to Whelan. At the Roman Catholic Church of St. Joseph, in Southampton, the priest, the Rev. Father Mount, announced to his congregation during Divine service on Sunday morning, April 26, that a beloved son of her Majesty had been treacherously shot at, and he hoped that his congregation would offer up their prayers to the Throne of Mercy that the Queen may be sustained and consoled in her great affliction, and the whole congregation rose spontaneously and chaunted "Domine salvum fac Reginam nostram Victoriam," &c., with the utmost fervour.