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GEORGE BUCKLEY
GEO. BUCKLEY DROWNED
Thorold News
[Welland Tribune, 6 August 1897]
Geo. Buckley, hostler at the Mansion house, was found drowned in lock 24, old canal, on Tuesday morning. He was last seen on Friday night about eleven o’clock. There were no marks of violence on the body. His watch had stopped seven minutes to 2, indicating that he went into the water at that time. Coroner Cumines of Welland was called and investigated the circumstances, which were as follows:-
The proprietor of the Mansion house, Mr. Donnelly, had heard deceased say he wished he was killed, and sometimes he would take out of his pocket a razor he carried and ask people if they saw that, acting as though he intended to use it on himself to commit suicide at some time. As deceased was not drunk on the night of his drowning, and so far as known had no occasion to go near the lock, and in view of the foregoing, the coroner considered it evidently a case of suicide, and that an inquest was not necessary.
Deceased was an English emigrant boy; his age, 28 years. He formerly worked for Thomas Emery at Niagara Falls. He had no known relatives. Had no enemies, was good-natured and liked by all who knew him
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