Abbreviations used
Date March 25 1873
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Telegraph
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.
The bangor 'Whig' says that Alexander McPHERSON whose spine was injured so that his lower limbs were paralyzed by a fall of a tree in the woods on the Ricogenus, where he was at work on Friday week, and who was brought to that city Thursday, died from the effects of his injuries Friday afternoon at the house of Alex. McISAAC on Broad St. where he was carried. McPHERSON was a native of Nova Scotia, about 22 years of age, and unmarried. He has no relatives in Bangor, but has resided there about four years.