Abbreviations used
Date September 24 1873
County Northumberland
Place Newcastle
Newspaper Union Advocate
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.
Shortly before 6 o'clock Monday morn., a young man, Augustus HEWARD, amployed as accountant in the Bank of Montreal, Newcastle, took his own life by firing two bullets from a revolver into his breast. Evidences of Robert R. COSTER, clerk in same bank; F.E. WINSLOW, James PENDERGAST (see original)