During the night, Pelley went out and brought his gun in the camp. Sarah or John asked him why he was bringing the gun in, and he said there was a weasel in the camp.

In the meantime, Sarah was sitting over by the fire. She noticed a pair of mitts hanging up that she had knit for her brother. John and Sarah got a bit suspicious. The next morning they left and came back up again to Rocky Harbour and on into Bonne Bay. John Paine got some more men with him. They went down and looked behind the camp there and found the two bodies of the men.

Pelley confessed to the murder. One story states that they tied him to a tree, put birch rind around it and threatened to burn him.

They arrested Pelley and brought him back to whatever Justice was in Woody Point at that time, and then onto St. John's for trial.

Pelley was accused of murder and John and Sarah went in as witnesses. He was found guilty and hanged publicly on September 5th, 1809, while they watched. He was from Bay Bulls.

Sarah Cross's boyfriend was dead, and while they were in St. John's, Sarah and John Paine got married, eight days after Pelley was hanged.

They are my great great grandparents.