Abbreviations used
Date July 29 1886
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Telegraph
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.
Yesterday afternoon, five or 6 young men and boys belonging to Fairville (St. John) walked down to Sand Cove on the bay shore to have a swim. With the party was Frederick KING s/o Leonard KING, proprietor of the hotel at Fairville, John MORRIS and William ROBB. (see original Frederick KING, a good swimmer, loses his life in two feet of water)