Abbreviations used
Date August 22 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.
The Georgetown, P.E.I. 'Advertiser' describes a distressing accident which occurred at Cardigan Bridge on Saturday week. A young man named John McPHERSON in the act of carrying a bundle of treenails, stumbled and fell on a sharp stump which inflicted bodily injuries that caused his death.