Abbreviations used
Date December 14 1877
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.
Along the North Shore - from the 'Advance' On Saturday eve. 8 o'clock an inquest was held by Coroner Dr. John S. Benson on the body of James GROAT, age 12, at the house of his father on the Mill Hill. It appears from evidence that deceased and a lad named Samuel KINGSTON, about the same age, went on the ice at the lower ballast wharf about 2 p.m. They skated down to Rock Head and were returning when deceased, who was skating about ten yards further from the shore than his comrade, glided into a space of open water. The funeral took place Monday afternoon (see original)