Abbreviations used
Date May 21 1889
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.
Further particulars of the drowning of Mr. MOONEY have been received. It occurred at Gaspereaux Station Sunday, four miles above Clarendon. Mr. Mooney, merchant and postmaster at that place and another man named Walter PATTERSON, went to a stream to bathe when Mooney got beyond hid depth and drowned. He leaves a wife and one child.