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ROBERT SIBBETT

KILLED

Formerly of Crowland

[People’s Press, 28 May 1912]

Mr. Robert Sibbett, a Crowland boy, met with a terrible accident while working in the carbon works at Niagara Falls, N.Y., on Tuesday last, being caught on some shafting and whirled around, breaking his limbs and crushing in his ribs, causing his death on Friday evening.

Mr. Sibbett was 44 years of age. He leaves to mourn their loss, a wife (nee Miss Jessie MacIntosh) and two daughters, also three brothers and four sisters. The brothers are John, Thomas and William of Willoughby; the sisters, Mrs. Walmsley of Willoughby, Mrs. Simpson of Port Robinson, Mrs. Edgar Holditch and Mrs John Misener of Crowland.

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