Kingston records (regionally related)

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a partial explosion had taken place — Had the whole ignited as had been intended the result must have been awful and yet this accomplished vagabond is looked upon in the United States as a martyr by many and has even been styled by one of their highest officials a great man

Lett himelf who had no idea that he had been thus betrayed was immediately arrested while sitting on the steps at the door of an Inn. — The constables knowing the desperate character they had to deal with, seized him by the arms from behind — A pistol and bowie knife were found on his person — He was shortly afterwards tried for the offence, and while on the railroad in charge of the Sheriff on his way to Auburn to undergo the sentence of his imprisonment like Kelly was suffered to escape from the custody of that official

This villains next enterprize was the destruction of the monument on Queenston Heights by means of gunpowder, which has rent it in twain the splendid testimonial of the heroic deeds of the Gallant General Brock not only erected to immortalize his heroism, but in the circumstances of its destruction also the gothic barbarism of a people who style themselves the most enlightened in the world

The monument was erected over the remains of the General near the spot where he recieved his mortal wound when defending the