File contains a photocopied manuscript statement sworn before and witnessed by Captain John Meyers, J.P., on June 14, 1797. Also contains a photocopy of the title page of a book entitled The Justice of the Peace and the Parish Officer, 1782, which bears the signature of Capt. Meyers.
File contains a photocopied manuscript deposition of Captain John W. Meyers, deposed by James McNabb at Kingston, concerning an assault on Capt and Mrs. Meyers on April 4, 1814.
File contains a photocopy of a newspaper article from the Toronto Star, dated September 14, 1980 about the murder and subsequent trial of Percy Bell, who died 1954 in Belleville.
File contains newspaper articles about Halloween in Belleville including: “Hooliganism” at Albert College, teenagers arrested for disobeying police officers, and money being raised for UNICEF.
File contains a newspaper clipping about a retired provincial police officer retelling the investigation of a double murder in 1925 that occurred in Belleville.
File contains a letter from Fred E. Thain to Mr and Mrs Clarence Cornell, written five days before his execution by hanging for the murder of Arnold and Nancy Wellman.
Correspondence and 'Acts of Parliament' relating to the operation of the Belleville Legal and Literary Society. The President of the society was J. Earl Halliwell.