Abbreviations used
Date January 6 1887
County Westmorland
Place Sackville
Newspaper Chignecto Post
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 Monday morn., Geo. W. TOWSE, Aboushagan, was working with his hired man, Robert THOMPSON, felling trees near his mill. One of the trees they chopped lodged in another one. They struck the latter one two or three blows with an axe, when the tree fell striking THOMPSON, killing him instantly. Thomspson leaves a wife and three small children.