Abbreviations used
Date January 30 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.
On 18th inst., Donald McPHERSON and Peter ELLWORTH met at a grog shop at the Mines, Glace Bay about 15 miles from Sydney, Cape Breton where they indulged freely in liquor. On their way to their homes, they quarrelled and McPHERSON was so badly beaten by ELLWORTH that he died of injuries received. An inquest was held and a verdict of wilful murder returned against ELLWORTH who at last accounts had evaded the efforts of Constables to apprehend him.