Dick, a Puntledge (K’omoks) man, appears in this non-transcribed document as an accused
murderer of a Nimpkish man named Wakeekos. In another document in the same file, Dick’s
lawyer Mr.Ring, reports that Wakeekos stabbed Dick’s brother-in-law named Cock-Eye.
Following this,
Wakeekos was attempting to stab Dick
and Dick
shot [Wakeekos] with a small gun or pistol.
Upon the recommendation of the Chief Justice
Joseph Needham, Dick was sentenced to
imprisonment for life
on 6 April 1866.