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MARKHAM TOWNSHIP.t(l.illVAUGHAN TOWNSHIP.(muuniwuHnumnnrouutiUMHUiuMHuuniuutt•n-cvc uuiiaiu i idAiiMi »iiwpointed out that there were other building needs in the county which should also beTheIn Days Gone By(Continued from Page 2)the Kingston Penitentiary for life. Thirty years later, on a 9-7585 Petition signed by a large num- her of gentlemen in Kingstonand elsewhere, she was pardoned and liberated.During the trial McDermott, in an effort to save his own neck, accused the 18-year-old Irish immigrant of being the instigator and promoter of the terrible deeds.tiRYteryhairsThe bodies of Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery were interred in Richmond Hill Cemetery. They were disinterred for a post-mortem examination andthen re-interred. Around thecaptain's grave was placed afancy railing six feet by six. three bars high through which were framed inch square pickets, the whole painted white. Around Nancy Montgomery’s grave was a six feet by four feet railing painted black. There was no monument at the head of either. Someone planted a June rose bush on Nancy’s grave, which grew until it filled the railing and reached far above the pickets.In course of time an order came from the cemetery authorities that all wooden monuments were to he cleared away. The railings disappeared with |them and so did knowledge of |the exact last resting places of the two murder victims.bassa stiis anarnwith earl it relig; cellei in tlfieldtionIndiamusilt;in tl theorsaidor p;
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Richmond Hill Liberal
Richmond Hill, Ontario, CA
Thu, Jun 23, 1966
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