Abbreviations used
Date August 2 1879
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Telegraph
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
News has been received in (St. John) city that John DISTELL, formerly of St. John was killed on Wednesday last in the custom house at Boston. There is no mention in the Boston papers of that eve.