Abbreviations used
Date February 1 1888
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper Saint John Globe
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.
William CONWAY, age 35, who claims to be a native of Saint John, N.B. last eve, while under the combines influence of depondency and North end rum, started for the ferry slip with the avowed intention of making an end to his life when Patrolmen Brown and Flynn of station 1 interrupted him and locked him up in warmer quarters than the waters of the inner harbour would have afforded him. - Boston 'Herald', Tuesday