Abbreviations used
Date April 14 1887
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 train from the west brought Alfred SPENCER of Lunenburg, N.S. to (St. John) city. The lower part of his body and limbs were paralyzed and he was almost unable to move. He was about 30 years of age and said that he had been fishing last summer and lumbering in the winterin Kingman, Maine until a few days ago, when he was stricken with paralysis.