This proposal was accepted, and James Sinclair, the English half-breed leader, undertook the duty.

Sayer was then brought in, guarded by twenty of his compatriots, fully armed, while fifty Metis guards stood at the gates of the Court House enclosure.

An attempt was then made to select a jury, but it was fruitless.

Sayer next confessed that he had traded for furs with an Indian.

The Court then gave a verdict of guilty, whereupon Sayer proved that a Hudson's Bay officer named Harriott, had given him authority to trade.