Abbreviations used
Date March 5 1864
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper New Brunswick Courier
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.
A distressing accident occurred at Earltown, Friday morn. 19th Feb., John eldest s/o late Robert MURRAY, Esq., having occasion to drive a hog to a neighbor's, tied a rope to the animals foot, the other end he held in his hand, and passing by a very steep bank, the hog started suddenly down the bank and dragged the young man after him. The rope in the mean- time got round his neck, and having lost his foothold, he was strangled in a few minutes. When he was found life was quite extinct and the hog was still fastened to him.