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Show "Why Kiel Was Executed. Montreal, December 2. The defense of the Dominion Government on the execution of Biel is published. The document, which covers five columns, is in the shape of a report to the Privy Council by the Minister of Justice, Sir Alexander Campbell, and reviews re-views the whole subject in an exhaustive manner, declaring that according to the authorities of the Eoman Catholic Church in the Northwest, Biel was not entitled to any mercy, his motives being purely mercenary, mer-cenary, he being willing at any time to sell out the Metis for a few thousand dollars. The document says the question as to his sanity is satisfactorily settled. The report denounces Biel for having raised the Indian tribes of the Northwest, and for having been the direct cause of the frightful massacre of a large number of persons, including two Catholio missionaries. . |