Oshawa Historical Society and Oshawa Public Libraries’ March Local History Speaker : Dan Buchanan
Oshawa Public Library McLaughlin Branch 65 Bagot Street, Oshawa, Ontario, CanadaThe most sensational trial of the mid-1850s resulted in the only hanging in Northumberland County. Dr. King poisoned his wife with arsenic in Brighton and, after the trial and hanging, was buried in the front yard of the King family farm house at Codrington – the same house where the author grew up! Here is...