Capt. Richard Terry

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-406700

Richard — . Unknown [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Lowell
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-388568
• Birth: 1815
• Birth: Oct 1815, Whitby, Yorkshire Co., England
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Episcopalian
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; English Church

Notes:

In Galt, on the morning of Tuesday, the 10th inst., Mary Lowell, wife of Francis Lowell, aged 66 years and 11 months; daughter of the late Capt. Richard Terry, of Whitby, England. The death of this lady will occasion sincere regret to her many friends. It was not unexpected, for she had been a sufferer for some time. A very old resident of Galt, kind hearted and affectionate, she has left many friends, who most sincerely regret her removal from amongst us.

Galt Reporter - Sep 13, 1878, pg 3

Mary — Francis "Frank" Lowell. Francis was born 13 Aug 1814, St. Davids, Niagara Twp., Lincoln Co., Ontario; died 18 Feb 1900, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Trinity Anglican Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Interesting: crime, murder
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-254800
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Episcopalian

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MURDERS IN WATERLOO COUNTY

For the 6^th time, (in the history of our county, as far as we know definitely,) someone has been marked with the sign of Cain, in that he has stained his hands with the blood of a fellow human-being. As is usually the case with such crimes, there were no eyewitnesses to the horrible deed except the murderer himself and his victim, who has been silenced forever. Of the 5 known murder cases, only 2 came to trial, and in each of these, the accused was released, exempt from punishment.

The first case of which we have any information concerns an old Tiroler who resided in this area about 30 years ago and who disappeared inexplicably. For verification of the matter, nothing further appears to have come to light and the case never came to trial. A second case took place in Galt, also several years ago. In the Queen's Hotel there, Richard Lowell threw a boot-jack at the head of the negro cook. The cook's skull appears not to have had the customary thickness of most of his fellow countrymen, with the result that the victim died of his injuries.

On November 5, 1885, a youth, named Jertz, was killed on a farm near Strassburg, in the barn. A former worker on the place, named Ravennes, was arrested and despite strong circumstantial evidence, was released; he had confessed his guilt before the police chief of Galt. Since then, he has been accused of several crimes in the U.S. and now is confined under lock and key. On July 16^th, 1891, an old man Zackmann, by name, was shot in Lexington by Edward Stricker; the latter, along with several comrades, had serenaded the man, who lived alone with his wife, and a lot of nonsense took place at the same time. The coroner's jury found Stricker guilty of murder; he, however, had escaped and the indictment, apparently, was dropped. The 5^th case, the stabbing of Michael Haus by Martin Reinhardt on December 19, 1891 in New Germany, is known to everyone. The deed could not be denied, but strong extenuating circumstances existed and the accused had these to thank for his acquittal.

In the most recent case, a fight also appears to have been the cause of the deed. Whether the prisoner, or someone else, committed the deed, still has to be decided and this can only be determined by circumstantial evidence. In any case, this case exceeds the earlier ones in the atrocity of the perpetrator, who attacked his victim like someone possessed and then, to make sure the job was done, cut his throat.

BERLINER JOURNAL AUGUST 15, 1895: Page 4 - Column 6.

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-67020

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• Crime: Lowell, Charles; Charged with Inciting and attempting to induce J.C. McEwan to commit perjury; Subornation of perjury:
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-389126
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Episcopalian
• Occupation: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; English Church
• Occupation: 1881, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Hotel Keeper

Charles married Anna Miller 18 Aug 1865, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Anna was born Abt 1865, Of, Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Charles — Sarah Hearn. Sarah was born 1855, , Ontario, Canada; died 3 Jul 1907, Brantford, Brant Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Trinity Anglican Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Maggie Lowell
• Name: Margaret "Maggie" Main
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-102113
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Episcopalian
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Recipes: 1898, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Income
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican

Notes:

Recipes:
WHITE CAKE - Mrs. Main

Two cupfuls of sugars, one cupful of butter, one cupful of milk, four cupfuls of flour, four teaspoonfuls baking powder, whites of ten eggs. Flavor with almond or any desired flavoring. Excellent.

Margaret married Henry Main 2 Jun 1870, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Henry (son of William Henry Main and Harriet Babcock) was born CALC 23 Nov 1834, Beverly Twp., Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada; died 8 Feb 1888, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-388569
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Episcopalian
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; English Church

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• Interesting: murder, crime, life story
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-102483

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THE HOLLOWED CHOCOLATE

from Memoirs of a great detective:
incidents in the life of John Wilson Murray (1904)

compiled by Victor Speer

A CALL to Galt awaited Murray on his return from Thessalon and the search for Maud Gillespie. Great excitement prevailed in the county of Waterloo. Many people were terrified; others were infuriated. A fiend was among them spreading death and planning the extermination of whole families. No one had any clue to the mysterious one's identity. It might be a stranger, it might be a neighbour; it might be a person of high estate or it might be a creature of low degree. None knew, and there were myriad suspicions. It was as if an avenging angel or a deadly devil were abroad in the county, lurking to slay and escape unseen, leaving no trace of the manner of death. A victim arose in the morning well and happy, and fell lifeless before noon without a sign of sickness or an intimation of the end.

"The climax came when little Meta Cherry, the three-year-old daughter of John Cherry, a prominent mill-owner of Galt, died in a sudden and mysterious way," says Murray. "I went to Galt, a prosperous town near Berlin, in the county of Waterloo It was September 1888. Several persons were sick, as if a plague were upon them. I looked at the little child. She seemed startled, even in death, as if the hand that thrust her into eternity had seized her roughly and scared her. I talked with John Cherry, and he told me of a box of chocolate drops that had come through the mail. He showed me the box. A few of the chocolates were gone. Meta had eaten them. I took one out, and carefully scraped the chocolate off with a knife-blade. I found on the bottom of the chocolate a spot where a cavity had been bored, and this had been filled with a whitish substance, unlike the cream candy of the chocolate, and the hole then had been sealed deftly by glazing over the bottom with more chocolate. I took the contents of the box, and sent the chocolates to Professor Ellis for analysis.

"I examined the box minutely. It revealed no clue, simply an ordinary pasteboard box. The wrapper in which it came showed a label pasted over an old address. The address on this label was printed with a soft lead pencil. I steamed the label to get at the address underneath it, but it had been washed out and scraped away, except for the one word 'Miss.' The package had been mailed in Galt. On inquiry I learned that similar packages had been received by the Rev. John Ridley, minister of the Church of England in Galt, and by Miss May Lowell and Mrs. Lowell, daughter and wife of Charles Lowell, proprietor of the Queen's Hotel in Galt. The boxes were quite small, and the inscriptions were alike as to the soft lead pencil. The packages had been dropped in the mail when no one was around, and the sender had vanished unseen.

"Professor Ellis reported that the cavities in the chocolate drops were filled with strychnine. This established clearly the intent of the poisoner to kill many people, and wipe out a number of families.

"I spent days gathering all the gossip of the town for generations back, hearing all the tales of trouble, and searching for some secret feud or some deadly hatred that would supply a motive for the deed. I ransacked ancestral closets for family skeletons, and I poked in all the after-dark affairs and twilight scandals since the days when the oldest inhabitants were gay young folk, fond of walking hand-in-hand through the gloaming. I ran down secrets that distressed dear old ladies, and left them in tears. I heard confessions of errors of youth that had lain locked in gentle bosoms for many kindly years; in fact, for a time I was an old Paul Pry Gadabout, poking my nose into other folk's business, until I felt I had sifted the lives and winnowed the chaff from the wheat in the collective career of the entire community. Every town has its chamber of horrors, where the sad episodes of indiscreet living are laid away to crumble in darkness, and the town of Galt has no more than its share of secrets of the passing generations. I found nothing in the long-gone years to throw light on the crime. There was no venerable hatred sufficient to inspire the murder of a little child. So I turned to later years, and for entanglements of recent months.

"In the meantime, about the middle of October, I arrested Hannah Boyd at Thorold. Hannah was a fine-looking girl, and had been living as a domestic in the Queen's Hotel, of which Mr. Lowell was proprietor. Later she removed to Thorold, and worked for a family there as Hannah Bond. Her home was in Hamilton. I kept her a week, and interviewed her thoroughly, particularly as to the family life of the Lowells, and whether she knew of the receipt of the package of chocolates by Mrs. Lowell and Miss Lowell, and whether she ever had heard of any trouble with the Ridleys, the Cherrys, and the Lowells. I was satisfied after these interviews with Hannah that she had no guilty knowledge, and that she had nothing whatever to do with sending the packages.

"I did develop promptly a strong suspicion as to the person who did send the poison packages. I searched the drug-stores through Canada, and examined the poison-books in all of them, and went so far as to describe to some of the druggists the person I suspected; but I found no clue that would hold in a trial as sufficient evidence to convict anybody. It is one of the most aggravating cases of my entire experience, yet I hold steadfast to my first impression."

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-102114
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-62355
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-102116
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-62357
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican

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• Name: Frances Leroy Main
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-62359
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican