Shot Down On Christmas Eve (Conclusion)

We’ve seen how, just after midnight of Christmas Day, 1890, David Fee Jr. was gunned down on a city street as he and friend Frank Partridge were returning to a Christmas celebration after attending midnight mass.

It was a shocking and apparently senseless crime: a case, it seems, of mistaken identity.

Or was it a mistake?

Was there more—much more—behind this fine young man’s cold blooded slaying than was obvious?

We’ll find out in next week’s conclusion to the fascinating story of one of Victoria’s most sensational murders—this one, sad to say, committed on Christmas morning.

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PHOTO: St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Victoria. Now a National Historic Site of Canada, in December 1890 it was under construction when its watchman, who  supposedly was guarding the site, shot and killed young storekeeper David Fee. —Wikipedia