Abbreviations used
Date June 9 1855
County Northumberland
Place Chatham
Newspaper The Gleaner and Northumberland Schediasma
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.
On following day, Thomas McCURDY of Belledoune in returning from Bathurst (Glouc. Co.) to his home in a cart also lost his life. He had left a friend's house a little after 2 p.m. and was found dead not long after about a mile and a half from Bathurst. The body was discovered under the cart with the neck broken, the cart and horse having upset near a deep bank in the roadside.