Abbreviations used
Date August 4 1883
County Westmorland
Place Moncton
Newspaper The Times
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.
Thursday eve., Frank KEARNEY, a middle aged gentleman living on the property adjoining north Mount Hope Asylum, on the other side of Halifax harbor, while bathing became exhausted or seized with a cramp and was drowned. He left a family and owned the property on which he resided.