John Hicks Met Death on his Doorstep (Part 2)

So: who dun it?

Readers of last week’s Chronicle may have drawn some conclusions of their own from the few facts ascertained by Victoria police and private parties acting as detectives in the fatal shooting of the young clerk, October 28, 1885.

Let’s review the facts: While walking back to James Bay from downtown Victoria, when within 50 feet of the Capt Hamilton Moffatt residence where he’d been staying with his bride Mary since their honeymoon two weeks before, the 35-year-old was accosted by two men.

Four shots are fired and Hicks dies 36 hours later. But the story doesn’t end there and the mystery of John Hicks’s death remains one of Victoria’s most fascinating cold cases of all time.
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