Abbreviations used
Date July 28 1866
County Northumberland
Place Chatham
Newspaper The Gleaner and Northumberland Schediasma
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.
John JOHNSTONE was killed in the mill of Hon. Peter MITCHELL at Black Brook (North. Co.) on Monday. He was engaged with a stick in putting a belt on one of the drums. The stick got between the belt and the drum, wrenched out of his hands, made a revolution and struck him in the breast piercing him to the heart. We sympathize with his family.