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Date 10 novembre 1887
Comté Saint John
Lieu Saint John
Journal The Daily Telegraph
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.
When the steamer "May Queen" called at her wharf, Newcastle, morn. 3rd inst., a report was given that some of the crew had seen a boat adrift near Bailey's Point. A boat was immediately procured, manned and sent out, and it was found that the boat adrift contained the bodies of William ELLIOTT and William TOWER. The boat was towed to the wharf at Newcastle (North. Co.) and Coroner Samuel Stewart empanelled a jury. TOWN (or TOWER was an old man of 70 years; ELLIOTT was 57 years of age. (see original)