Friday, November 14, 2014

The History of Agnus McVee




1871 Lodge Agnus McVee Diner is where Sean and I are having our 10th Anniversary Celebration Dinner


Agnus McVee was a Canadian serial killer. McVee ran a hotel and store at 108 Mile House
on the Cariboo Wagon Road from 1875 to 1885 during the Cariboo Gold Rush. Along
with her husband Jim McVee and her son-in-law Al Riley, she is said to have killed many
miners for their gold and kidnapped women for sale to miners as white slaves.
The story has achieved local prominence, but documentary evidence is absent.
Agnus McVee
The story goes that a miner, Jim MacDonald, wished to buy a young girl from the
McVees. Agnus agreed to sell MacDonald a seventeen-year-old girl.The next
morning Jim McVee followed MacDonald down the Cariboo Wagon Road.
McVee murdered MacDonald and took all his money. The next morning, Agnus
McVee poisoned her husband in retaliation for this murder. The girl, however, was able
to escape and to identify Jim McVee to the North West Mounted Police. Upon
investigation, the police found McVee, Al Riley (her brother-in-law), Jim McVee's body,
and eight young girls in the basement of the McVee's hotel.
Upon investigation, the police found McVee, Al Riley (her brother-in-law), Jim McVee's
body, and eight young girls in the basement of the McVee's hotel. The police arrested
McVee and Riley and the pair were taken to Fort Kamloops. They were charged and
convicted of murder and kidnapping. They were than transported to New Westminster
and incarcerated in the New Westminster jail. McVee committed suicide in 1885 while in
the jail by swallowing poison. Riley was hanged shortly after.


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