Deposition of Mary Hastings O’Connor, February 1880
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MARY HASTINGS O’CONNOR. — I am the mother of Johnny O’Connor; I recollect the day after the murder; […] I asked him how he escaped? He said, O, ma, I got under the bed; she said, did they see you under the bed? he said, if they did I’m sure I’d have been killed; I was shaking, and I did not like to listen to it: he went to the Village with his father afterwards: […] he would not tell me when I asked him the names: he said he was afraid of their killing him: […]
Source: Public Archives of Ontario, Irving Fonds, F1027, 82 80, MS6500, Unknown, Deposition of Mary Hastings O’Connor, February 31, 1880.