 Corporal Bourke was mortally wounded by a scalping party of Indians, and on his death-bed made a solemn confession that he himself had actually stolen the gun, and sold it to Roche, and that Roche had purchased it without any suspicion of the theft.This declaration of the dying man was properly attested and universally accepted, and instantly restored Roche's character.In compensation for the injustice and injury he had suffered, Roche was awarded a lieutenancy in a newly raised regiment.