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MEMORABLE EVENTS The pilot engine came up at 12.20 p.m., and the Royal Train at 12.30 p.m. Captain Patton's Rifles were there as a body guard. After receiving the address which was presented by Mayor Mr. Whitlaw, the members of the Town Council were presented and several others. There was a great crowd of people assembled. His Royal High- ness is a very modest gentleman prepossessing and intelligent looking youth of five feet seven, light hair and norman nose. He was dressed as a private gentleman of London. Having a blue coat, white hat, grey unmentionables and common gaiters. His suite were composed of the Governor General, Duke of Newcastle, Earl St. Germaine, Sir Fenwick Williams, etc. He seemed very much pleased altogether. I was very sorry that they did not cheer him more. He left Paris about one p.m. for Brantford in a car fitted up by the Brantford shops. Curtis and his sisters, and hundreds of other Parisians, followed the Prince to Brantford where they watched the Indians "present him with a box of curiousities for his mother", and where "there were thousands of people assembled from all parts, but was lacking in vocal chords". That night, after returning home, Curtis again rode into town to discuss the great day with his friends. And when he at last re- turned to Brumhill, and had lighted his candle and taken his loyal pen in hand, he expressed his satisfaction by writing: The arches were really very fine and the day being all that a man could wish. There were, no doubt, many thousands returned to their respective abodes in extaeies of having seen their future king and various members of the peers of the realm. All well, and perfectly delighted with the sights of the day. May God Bless Him ! Murder at the Bridge In 1870, a road curved westward from the end of the Nith Bridge, ran along the south bank of the River, and then turned northward to an abandoned distillery at the west end of the Wincey Mill dam. This road, which was built to connect the distillery with Grand River Street, was called Distillery Road, and the high bank it traversed was called Distillery Hill. Seventeen squatters, together with their families, lived along the road in shacks and cottages. The first shack, which stood a short distance from the south end of the Nith Bridge on the left-hand side of Distillery Road, was occupied by Arthur Pierce (a teamster) and Catharine, his wife. He was thirty years old: she was forty. About 1.30 o'clock on the afternoon of June 20, 1870, Tom Mac- donald and four schoolmates crossed the bridge on their way to the high school. They turned right onto Distillery Road. Suddenly, when they were about thirty yards from the Pierce home, they saw Mrs. Pierce emerge from the woodshed door, closely followed by Mr. Pierce. He was shouting and swearing; she was shrieking and cursing, and was quite naked. Her body (according to the coroner's report) "presented the appearance of a somewhat stout and well nourished person, about five feet in height". 257