Abbreviations used
Date May 26 1879
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.
A St. Stephen despatch Thursday says - On the afternoon 19th, Vital PICARD, age 20, while laboring under a fit of temporary insanity, escaped from his friends and threw himself intoi the river some four miles above Edmundston (Madawaska Co.) and was drowned, there being no canoes at hand. The body was not recovered. He was the son of Francis PICARD of that place.