Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Correspondence (private letter)
Bacher and Eschwege to
Gairdner, Gordon
4 March 1862, CO 60:14, no. 2285, 333.
Abstract
Bacher and Eschwege to
Gairdner, Gordon
4 March 1862, CO 60:14, no. 2285, 333.
Correspondence (private letter).
Minutes (2), Other documents (1).
Bacher and Eschwege to Gairdner (Chief Clerk)
A certain Dr Mac Pfeiffer, native of Germany is in the newspapers
reported to have been murdered in British Columbia in August last.
He was for a long time practising physician at San Francisco,
where he received a few years ago about £3000 from his family; &
the latter wish to ascertain his reported end & in case of his
death what had become of his property.
Please to have the necessary inquiry made in British Columbia
& to inform us meanwhile w[h]ether and when we may expect to learn
the result.
Gordon Gairdner Esq
Chief Clerk to the Colonial Office
Chief Clerk to the Colonial Office
Minutes by CO staff
Mr Elliot
It wd be endless if the S. of S. were to undertake enquiries after dead, or reported dead people in the Colonies.
It wd be endless if the S. of S. were to undertake enquiries after dead, or reported dead people in the Colonies.
I shd ansr by saying that the S. of S. has recd no
report of the alleged murder, and that the writers had better
either address a Letter to the Governor of the British Columbia,
or employ a professional Agent to ascertain the truth of the
report, & proceed according to the circes of the case as they
shall appear after enquiry.
ABd
5/3
Draft.
TFE
5/3
Other documents included in the file
Fortescue to Bacher and Eschwege, 8 March 1862, advising that as no report had been received from the colony on the fate of MacPfeiffer, their best course would be to contact the governor directly on the subject.