Abbreviations used
Date May 17 1876
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.
Halifax, May 16 - The body of John HACKETT who has been missing for two weeks, was found today in the neighborhood of Rockhead prison in a swamp, where it is supposed he wandered on the night he left home. He had been unwell for some months.