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British Colonist, Friday, June 3rd, 1859 BARBAROUS MURDER On or about Wednesday night, Johnston Cochrane, one of the police was barbarously murdered on the road to Craig Flower, where the body was discovered lying, having received two shots, one through the head and another through the mouth. A colored man is suspected whom the deceased was in search of, for having stolen some pigs. Yesterday he was arrested some seven miles from town, towards Saanitch [Saanich]. His name is Joseph Lewis, alias Portuguese Joe, a native of the Cape de Verde Islands. He will be examined this morning. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Constable Johnston Cochrane was murdered on the evening of June 2nd by an unknown assailant while in search of a suspect. There were several theories that would develop over who was responsible for his death, but it seems that the general consensus among the press and public opinion was that the blame could be attributed to the local Native population, with whom Cochrane had apparently had bad relations due to actions he had taken towards them as a police officer. Specifically, Cochrane had apparently been involved in several "incidents" at Native settlements and had assisted the Sheriff in removing some local Indigenous peoples from one of their encampments. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Documents
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