Abbreviations used
Date August 7 1878
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.
On Saturday eve. last a man named William LAWRENCE, subject to epilepsy, fell from the rail of the Arichat packet, Guysboro, N.S., and was drowned.