Crime – Bath – First hanging c1790
- CA ON00156 TR/0990
- File
- 1959
File contains a newspaper clipping about the gibbet being erected in Bath to recall the first hanging in Upper Canada in 1790.
Crime – Bath – First hanging c1790
File contains a newspaper clipping about the gibbet being erected in Bath to recall the first hanging in Upper Canada in 1790.
Crime in Belleville Area 1835-1961
File contains copies of newspaper articles about crimes and hangings in Belleville.
Crime – Belleville's First Murder 1835
File contains a retelling of the first murder in Belleville, in 1835.
File contains a newspaper article featuring the retelling of the 1862 public hanging of Richard and Mary Alyward in Belleville.
Crime – Postmortem on Poison Case 1862
File contains the results of a postmortem completed by Dr. Burdette (?) for a poison case in Hastings County.
Crime – Petition against Dr. Pomeroy
File contains a petition to Hastings County Council against Dr. Pomeroy for completing an unwanted autopsy on a man who died from accidental drowning.
Police Chief Hugh McKinnon 1877-1886
File contains a 1965 newspaper clipping about Belleville's first chief constable, Hugh McKinnon.
File contains copies of newspaper clippings from 1878 about burglaries in Belleville.
Belleville Police Gaol Statistics 1880
File contains the prison statistics of 1880 collected by the Belleville Police.
File contains a report made by the prison inspector in 1864.
Crime – Police Record by H. McKinnon, Chief 1880
File contains the annual report by Hugh McKinnon, Belleville's Police Chief.
Crime – Jail Investigation 1881
File contains newspaper clippings about jail investigations.
Crime – Dismissal of Sheriff (Belleville)
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.
File contains a Prisons Commission from 1890 given by Jailer Appleby and Sheriff Hope of Belleville, their testimony given in Kingston discussing treatment of prisoners and causes that led to crime.
Crime – Death at the Jail – Billy Watson 1891
File contains information regarding the death of Billy Watson (aged 79) in the Belleville Jail.
Murder/Hangings – James Kane 1891
File contains a newspaper article about the hanging of James Kane in Belleville in 1891.
File contains newspaper clippings about assaults in Belleville in 1880.
File contains a newspaper clipping about a libel case in Belleville regarding bribery.
Crime – Reference To Dominion Bank Robbery
File contains a newspaper clipping about Mr. Lott being charged with conspiring to defraud the electors, there is a reference to the Dominion Bank Robbery.
Canada Cement Plant Robbery 1914
File contains a newspaper clipping about the confession of a Windsor man to the 1914 robbery at the Canada Cement Plant in Belleville.