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 appeared in Canadian Champion, 29 Jun 1865, p. 2     Murder in Acton. On Thursday the inhabitants of the peaceful village of Acton were startled by a deed of blood being committed in broad daylight, during the solemnities of a funeral. The facts, as far as we can learn, are as follows: A young man of the name of Drumgole, …

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 6 Jul 1865, p. 2     DROWNED. - Yesterday a young man named Henry Fisk, residing on the lst Con. of Nassagaweya, near Eden Mills, was drowned in a small stream near his residence. He was subject to fits, and as the creek was very shallow at the spot where he was found, it is supposed …

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 6 Jul 1865, p. 2     Georgetown Items. A very suddent death occurred here on the 24th inst. A man named James Walker, well known in Guelph, having for some time been bar keeper at Jones' American Hotel, attended a funeral in the fore part of that day. On his return he took a hearty meal, …

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 6 Jul 1865, p. 2     Inquest at Acton. In consequence of a suspicion having arisen among the friends of the deceased Miss Lozier, that her death had been occasioned by poison, which might have been administered to her by Drumgole, who had attended and administered medicine to her for six nights ...

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 1 Jun 1865, p. 2     TWO MEN DROWNED - A THIRD COMITS SUICIDE. - Two men were drowned in the River Credit at Springfield, on the morning of the 26th while fishing below the dam. One body was recovered immediately and the other last evening. One of the men, named Bell, leaves a wife and …

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 1 Jun 1865, p. 2     TWO MEN DROWNED - A THIRD COMITS SUICIDE. - Two men were drowned in the River Credit at Springfield, on the morning of the 26th while fishing below the dam. One body was recovered immediately and the other last evening. One of the men, named Bell, leaves a wife and …

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 22 Jun 1865, p. 2     RUMOURED SUICIDE. - It is reported in Milton that Nesbit, the School Teacher, who murdered his wife, has committed suicide by cutting his throat from ear to ear. He was residing in Caledon at the time. Nesbit was for many years a teacher in Palermo, and before he fell into …

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 20 Jul 1865, p. 2     BURNED TO DEATH. - We regret to learn that a child of Mr. Wm. Noonan, who resides near the Catholic Church, 10th con., Trafalgar, was burned to death. She was playing with matches and striking some off, her dress caught fire and she was so badly burned before assistance arrived, …

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 19 Jan 1865, p. 2     MELANCHOLY DEATH. - John Henderson, farmer, was found dead near the residence of the Rev. Mr. Alexander, near Norval, on Saturday, the 8th inst. There was an inquest held by Dr. Wright, Coroner, of Georgetown, on the Sunday following. Verdict of the jury - That the deceased, John Henderson, ...

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 26 Jan 1865, p. 2     FATAL ACCIDENT. - We learn that on Monday last as three persons were at supper at Payne's tavern, Ashgrove, one of the men named John Davidson, was suddenly choked. The facts, as we learn them, are these: this Davidson, who is better known under the appellation of 'chaeap Charley," sat …

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 3 Aug 1865, p. 2     Fatal Accident at Bronte. A WOMAN KILLED Intelligence reached the city yesterday morning that an accident, attended with loss of life, had an hour or so previously, happened at the Bronte Station of the Great Western Railway. We despatched a reporter to the scene of its ...

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 3 Aug 1865, p. 2     Inquest of Miss Lozier. The adjourned inquest on the body of the late Miss Lozier, met pursuant to adjournment at the village of Acton, Dr. Freeman, the coroner, read the following from Dr Croft of Toronto. Toronto, July 25th, 1865. Dear Sir, - Having most carefully ...

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 24 Aug 1865, p. 2     ACCIDENT. - We learn that a Mrs. Whitfield residing in Muskoka Township, but formerly of East Flamboro, was accidently drowned on Saturday the 5th inst. It appears that she was stooping over the banks of a stream, to recover a pail which had dropped in, when the earth gave way, …

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 21 Sep 1865, p. 2     Trafalgar. Mr Charles McDuffie, of whose illness and that of his family we spoke last week, has since succumbed to the disease, which was not Cholera Morbus as our correspondent informed us but acute dysentery showing typhoid symptoms at its termination....

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 28 Sep 1865, p. 2     FATAL ACCIDENT. - On Tuesday the 19th inst., Mr. Justice Munn, of Campbellsville, was killed by a stump-machine. There was three other men employed about the machine, and the driver perceiving the danger had called out to his men to get away from the stump at which they were digging, …

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 30 Nov 1865, p. 1     Man Killed near Galt. Early on Tuesday morning, the Ayr stage-driver on his way to Galt from Glenmorris found the body of a man underneath a wagon-box full of crockery ware near Mr. Potter's farm, about a mile and a quarter from the town. Coroner Phillips was notified, and an …

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 5 Jan 1865, p. 2     Murder in Streetsville. A FARM LABORER KILLED BY HIS WIFE. A shocking homicide, which will probably be regarded as a murder, was committed on Tuesday night in the village of Streetsville, about seventeen miles from Toronto, on the Dundas road. The facts so far as we ...

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 31 Aug 1865, p. 2     MAN KILLED. - Arriving in Georgetown on Saturday, we heard that a Coroner's inquest was being held at the Hotel of Mr. Higgins, on the body of an old man who had fallen into the culvert on the Grand Trunk Railway near Mr. Dayfoot's tannery. It appears that the deceased, …

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 5 Oct 1865, p. 2     SUDDEN DEATH - One of the most sudden deaths that has happened in Milton, occurred last Friday morning. Old Jimmy Keenan, so well known here in connection with trial of his son Edward Keenan, for the muder of his mother, suddenly expired in Dr. Freemann's office, whither he had crawled …

 appeared in Canadian Champion, 5 Oct 1865, p. 2     We are sorry to learn that the fatal dysentery, which carried off so many of Mr. McDuffie's family in Trafalgar, is not yet arrested. Miss Mary Mullholland, the nurse of whose illness we spoke, has fallen a victim to her courageous devotion, and was buried last Sabbath. She was highly …