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Freeholder at 175: The last man hanged in Cornwall
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On Friday, June 26, 1908, the left side of The Freeholder’s front page was dedicated to a catastrophic event: a disaster at the Cornwall canal.
The headline that day provided a quick synopsis of what happened, “Break at Lock 18 – 200 Feet of Bank Carried into the River – Collapse of the O. & N. Y. Draw Bridge.”
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Considered the “worst break in the history of the Cornwall canal,” a large slice of the south bank above Lock 18 washed out into the river. This caused the swing bridge of the Ottawa & New York Railway (which crossed the canal at that section) to collapse into the water.
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Editor’s note: We continue a special look back at the 175 years of continuous publication of the Cornwall Freeholder, the Cornwall Standard, and the Standard-Freeholder, through this series that will appear regularly until the end of this calendar year. In this entry, Sara Racine, known as Cornwall’s Little Historian, takes a look at the last execution to ever take place at the Cornwall Jail, back in 1954.
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On the afternoon of May 25, 1954, anyone picking up a copy of the Standard-Freeholder was met with a photo of a very large crowd.