This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brown, Bernacelo, Sassl Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/1AC.2ACI/1765 Message Board Post: >From the Manitoba Morning Free Press, Winnipeg (Canada), Friday, December 28, 1900, page 7, under SHOT BY AN ANARCHIST. "THE CHIEF OF POLICE OF BARRIE SHOT BY AND ITALIAN IN AMBUSH FOR DOING HIS DUTY. Barrie, Vt., Dec. 27. - Chief of Police Patrick Brown is in a critical condition, with small prospects for recovery, on account of three bullet wounds inflicted by and Italian anarchist early to-day. The chief, had been called to quell a row in a hall in which the anarchists were holding a dance. Several persons were driven from the hall. The chief was shot from ambush on his way back to the station. Otto Bernacelo and Luigi Sassl have been arrested and identified by the chief as being connected with the attempted assassination." For information only. The poster is not related to nor is researching any of the above.