Abbreviations used
Date July 29 1848
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.
The person taken up last week at Calais and lodged in gaol at St. Andrews on suspicion of being Thomas BOWES, the murderer of Mr. GOFF, a policeman in Portland (St. John) last December, underwent an examination on the 21st before the Portland police magistrate, Jacob ALLAN, Esq.. He proved to be a person named Archibald BOWES, a native of P.E.I. who was passing in Calais under an feigned name on account of having committed some crime in (Sunbury Co.) N.B.