1914 Jan 6 Incident

The following brief column from the Hamilton Spectator is reprinted as it appeared on January 16, 1914.

“Andrew Marshall and Edward Porter, police officers of Own Sound, arrived in Hamilton yesterday afternoon accompanied by a negro, whom they were taking to the Hamilton asylum. The officers said the man was a hopeless lunatic, and a very dangerous one. He was heavily shackled and the officers in charge kept a close watch on him at the asylum. While waiting for a cab at the T. H. & B. depot, the officers had considerable trouble with him. Every person who came near him he regarded as an enemy, who wanted to take his life, and the officers were forced to contain the man at the back of the deport to keep him from seeing people.”¹

¹ “Dangerous Lunatic : One From Owen Sound Was Brought to the Local Asylum”

Hamilton Spectator. January 16, 1914.