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A Single Gunshot in the Night

July 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Vancouver Island, Victoria

And now for another tale of murder and mayhem..sort of. Almost 150 years ago, a man named Robert Coombs, a popular musician, was killed by a single gunshot in Esquimalt. Islander author T.W. Patterson describes the tale of Coombs’s unfortunate end. Robert Coombs met sudden and violent death at Esquimalt. Almost two centuries after [his] [...]

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