Abbreviations used
Date April 9 1853
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper New Brunswick Courier
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.
Thomas HENDERSON, jr. has been committed to jail in P.E.I. to take his trial for the murder of his father. The deceased, age 86, is stated to have been so cruelly beaten that he died in a few days from the effects of the blows.