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File contains a typsecript letter to W. J. Therriault, Governor of the Hastings County Jail from Mary G. Plumpton, Curator, Hastings County Museum, with a list of hangings by date and name of the convicted from 1835 to 1941.

Crime – Montroy murder & suicide 1968

CA ON00156 TR/1019
File
1968

Part of HCHS Textual Records collection: Files 1000 to 1499

File contains newspaper clippings about the murder and suicide of Mr. and Mrs. Montroy of Trenton.

Crime – Aylward's Murder 1862

CA ON00156 TR/0993
File
1965

Part of HCHS Textual Records collection: Files 1 to 999

File contains a newspaper article featuring the retelling of the 1862 public hanging of Richard and Mary Alyward in Belleville.

Crime – Bank robbery 1969

CA ON00156 TR/1014-2
File
1969

Part of HCHS Textual Records collection: Files 1000 to 1499

File contains newspaper articles about the Bank of Nova Scotia in Consecon being robbed.

Crime – Bath – First hanging c1790

CA ON00156 TR/0990
File
1959

Part of HCHS Textual Records collection: Files 1 to 999

File contains a newspaper clipping about the gibbet being erected in Bath to recall the first hanging in Upper Canada in 1790.

Crime – Belleville's First Murder 1835

CA ON00156 TR/0991
File
1835

Part of HCHS Textual Records collection: Files 1 to 999

File contains a retelling of the first murder in Belleville, in 1835.

Crime – Canada's Last Public Hanging 1869

CA ON00156 TR/0992-2
File
1869

Part of HCHS Textual Records collection: Files 1 to 999

File contains a retelling of Canada's last public hanging in 1869.

Crime – Death at the Jail – Billy Watson 1891

CA ON00156 TR/1003
File
1891

Part of HCHS Textual Records collection: Files 1000 to 1499

File contains information regarding the death of Billy Watson (aged 79) in the Belleville Jail.

Crime – Description Of Hangman 1879

CA ON00156 TR/0998
File
1879

Part of HCHS Textual Records collection: Files 1 to 999

File contains a newspaper article about Calcraft, “The Common Hangman”.

Crime – Dismissal of Sheriff (Belleville)

CA ON00156 TR/1001
File
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Part of HCHS Textual Records collection: Files 1000 to 1499

File contains a newspaper clipping summarizing a speech made in the Ontario Legislature which included the dismissal of the Belleville Sheriff and how prisoners had escaped from the Belleville jail.

Crime – Jail Investigation 1881

CA ON00156 TR/1000
File
1881

Part of HCHS Textual Records collection: Files 1000 to 1499

File contains newspaper clippings about jail investigations.

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