Abbreviations used
Date October 20 1882
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper Daily News
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 after 12 o'clock last eve., while under the influence of liquor, Isaac J. McLELLAN of Hampton (Kings Co.), a Scotch pensioner, 72 years of age, who had been a widower for 17 years and has three sons in the American army, threw himself threw the window of No. 16, third flat of Bangor House, striking a fence enroute and by being picked up by parties in A.G. GORMAN's saloon who heard the noise of the fall, expired in fifteen minutes without uttering a word. At 11 o'clock this morn. an inquest was commenced on the remains in Bangor House before Coroner Earle. The following jury was sworn in William DUNLOP, foreman; Andrew EMERY, Calvin POWERS, Dennis BURKE, Samuel SMITH, William CRAFT. Testimonies were given by Mary Augusta CASE, Andrew G. GORMAN, George A. HETHERINGTON,,M.D., James McDONALD. (see original)