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Date 4 décembre 1865
Comté Saint John
Lieu Saint John
Journal Morning News
Le langage employé dans les textes est tel qu’il a été transcrit par Daniel F. Johnson à partir des entrées dans les journaux originaux.
d. Yesterday afternoon, William TOWNSEND, age 12, met a horrible death in Hon. John ROBERTSON's Saw Mill, Carleton (St. John) The boys duty was to put out board ends from the box machine, but it would seem that he went below and was probably playing with an intermediate shaft when his clothing caught in the shaft and he was whirled wound and wound, breaking both his legs, crushing the body and killing him almost instantaneously. - Telegraph