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— TORONTO MIRROR, November 23rd, 1843.†
Chpt 2 *

Toronto = largest city in Canada
THE MURDERS OF THOMAS KINNEAR, ESQ. AND OF HIS HOUSEKEEPER NANCY MONTGOMERY AT RICHMOND HILL AND THE TRIALS OF GRACE MARKS AND JAMES McDERMOTT AND THE HANGING OF JAMES McDERMOTT AT THE NEW GAOL IN TORONTO, NOVEMBER 21st, 1843.†
Chpt 2
O Nancy dear, do not despair, To town I now must go, To bring some money home for you, From the Bank in Toronto.†
Chpt 2
They robbed Kinnear of his silver, They robbed him of his gold, They stole his horse and wagon, And to Toronto they rode.†
Chpt 2
All in the middle of the night, To Toronto they did flee, Then across the Lake to the United States, Thinking they would scape free.†
Chpt 2
You are aware that she has spent time in the Lunatic Asylum in Toronto, seven or eight years ago it was, and although she appears to be perfectly recovered you never know when they may get carried away again, sometimes she talks to herself and sings out loud in a most peculiar manner.†
Chpt 3
They hanged him in front of the jail in Toronto, and You should have been there Grace, say the keepers, it would have been a lesson to you.†
Chpt 3
It's the only way with the hysterics, you may be sure Ma'am, said the Matron, we have had a great deal of experience with that kind of a fit, this one used to be prone to them but we never indulged her, we worked to correct it and we thought she had given it up, it might be her old trouble coming back, for despite what they said about it up there at Toronto she was a raving lunatic that time seven years ago, and you are lucky there was no scissors nor sharp things lying about.†
Chpt 3
— DR. JOSEPH WORKMAN, Medical Superintendent, Provincial Lunatic Asylum, Toronto; Letter to "Henry," a young and troubled enquirer, 1866.†
Chpt 4
To Dr. Simon Jordan, M.D., Laburnum House, Loomisville, Massachusetts, The United States of America; from Dr. Joseph Workman, Medical Superintendent, The Provincial Lunatic Asylum, Toronto, Canada West.†
Chpt 4
I could not help but observe, that the enclosed letter is from the Lunatic Asylum in Toronto.†
Chpt 4
I have not yet met my correspondent and, as it were, employer, the Reverend Verringer, as he is away on a visit to Toronto, and so I still have that pleasure to anticipate; although if his letters to me are any indication, he suffers like many clergymen from a punishable lack of wit and a desire to treat us all as straying sheep, of which he is to be the shepherd.†
Chpt 4
From Dr. Samuel Bannerling, M.D., The Maples, Front Street, Toronto, Canada West; to Dr. Simon Jordan, M.D., care of Mrs. William P. Jordan, Laburnum House, Loomisville, Massachusetts, The United States of America.†
Chpt 4
The eminent Reverend Egerton Ryerson, of Toronto, followed much the same course.†
Chpt 4
They have it in a bottle, at the University in Toronto.†
Chpt 4
My name is Grace Marks, and I am the daughter of John Marks, who lives in the Township of Toronto, he is a Stone-mason by trade; we came to this country from the North of Ireland about three years ago; I have four sisters and four brothers, one sister and one brother older than I am; I was 16 years old last July.†
Chpt 5
I have lived servant during the three years I have been in Canada at various places......— VOLUNTARY CONFESSION OF GRACE MARKS, to Mr. George Walton, in the Gaol, on the 17th of November, 1843, Star and Transcript, Toronto.†
Chpt 5
At last we reached Toronto, which was where they said the free land could be obtained.†
Chpt 5
The house of my new employment was very grand, and was known as one of the finest houses in Toronto.†
Chpt 6
Are you acquainted with a family called Parkinson, in Toronto?†
Chpt 7
He is currently a partner in a Toronto law firm, having made a rapid professional rise.†
Chpt 7
Nancy was in Toronto to make some purchases at a dry-goods auction down at Clarkson's stores; she showed us some very pretty crimson silk which she'd bought for a winter dress, and I wondered what a housekeeper would be wanting with a dress like that; and some fine gloves, and an Irish linen tablecloth on behalf of her employer.†
Chpt 7
I did worry about being out in the country, rather than in town, as I was now used to Toronto life — there was so much to see while walking out on errands, and sometimes there were shows and fairs, although you had to watch for thieves there; and outdoor preachers, and always a boy or a woman singing on the street for pennies.†
Chpt 7
I'd seen Red Indians in Toronto, as they would sometimes go there to collect their treaty money; and others would come to the back door at Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's with baskets to sell, and fish.†
Chpt 7
Mr. Kinnear said to him, Hello Jamie here is Grace Marks come all the way from Toronto, I found her at the inn, and the boy looked up at me and grinned, as if he thought there was something funny about me; but he was only shy and awkward.†
Chpt 7
The boy Jamie walked along beside me, and he said shyly, Is it big, Toronto, is it very grand, I have never been there, but I only said Grand enough.†
Chpt 7
I could not find it in me to answer him about Toronto, because right then I was bitterly sorry I had ever left it.†
Chpt 7
Mr. Kinnear said I was very inquisitive for such a young person, and soon he would have the most learned maidservant in Richmond Hill, and he would have to put me on display, and charge money for me, like the mathematical pig in Toronto.†
Chpt 7
He went to Toronto and lived idly on the money he had saved; but then his funds dwindled, and he knew he would have to look about him; and it was in search of a position that he'd gone north up Yonge Street, and had come as far as Richmond Hill.†
Chpt 7
To Toronto, she said; he goes there every Thursday, and stays overnight, to do some business at the bank and also some errands; but first he will go to Colonel Bridgeford's, whose wife is away from home, and the two daughters as well, so he can visit safely, but when she is there he is not received.†
Chpt 7
— CONFESSION OF GRACE MARKS, Star and Transcript, Toronto, November 1843.†
Chpt 8
When I left off last time, Sir, I believe Mr. Kinnear had rode away to Toronto, and then Jamie Walsh came over and played his flute, and there was a lovely sunset, and then I went off to sleep with Nancy, as she was afraid of robbers with no man in the house.†
Chpt 8
He'd meant to return on the Friday, but had been delayed by business in Toronto, or so he said; and had stopped part of the way back, at an inn which was not far north of the first toll gate; and Nancy was none too pleased to hear that, as the place had a bad reputation and was said to countenance loose women, or so she told me in the kitchen.†
Chpt 8
and if she must know, he'd been on a special errand of Mr. Kinnear's, entrusted to him before Mr. Kinnear left for Toronto;†
Chpt 8
— CONFESSION OF GRACE MARKS, Star and Transcript, Toronto, November 1843.†
Chpt 9
We then commenced packing up all the valuable things we could find; we both went down into the cellar; Mr. Kinnear was lying on his back in the wine-cellar; I held the candle; McDermott took the keys and some money from his pockets; nothing was said about Nancy; I did not see her, but I knew she was in the cellar, and about 11 o'clock, McDermott harnessed the horse; we put the boxes in the wagon and started off for Toronto; he said he would go to the States and he would marry me.†
Chpt 10
I consented to go; we arrived at Toronto, at the City Hotel, about 5 o'clock; awoke the people; had breakfast there; I unlocked Nancy's box and put some of her things on, and we left by the boat at 8 o'clock, and arrived at Lewiston, about 3 o'clock; went to the tavern; in the evening we had supper at the public table, and I went to bed in one room and McDermott in another; before I went to bed, I told McDermott I would stop at Lewiston, and I would not go any further; he said he would make me go with him, and about 5 o'clock in the morning, Mr. Kingsmill, the High Bailiff, came and arrested us, and brought us back to Toronto.†
Chpt 10
I consented to go; we arrived at Toronto, at the City Hotel, about 5 o'clock; awoke the people; had breakfast there; I unlocked Nancy's box and put some of her things on, and we left by the boat at 8 o'clock, and arrived at Lewiston, about 3 o'clock; went to the tavern; in the evening we had supper at the public table, and I went to bed in one room and McDermott in another; before I went to bed, I told McDermott I would stop at Lewiston, and I would not go any further; he said he would make me go with him, and about 5 o'clock in the morning, Mr. Kingsmill, the High Bailiff, came and arrested us, and brought us back to Toronto.†
Chpt 10
— CONFESSION OF GRACE MARKS, Star and Transcript, Toronto, November 1843.†
Chpt 10
It will take us a long time to reach Toronto, I said, in the dark; and also Charley Horse will be tired, having made the trip once today already.†
Chpt 10
And so we went on through the night, and at last the sky grew lighter; and we reached Toronto a little after five in the morning.†
Chpt 10
Then we found that the next ferry did not leave for the States until eight o'clock, and we would have to wait in Toronto another two hours or so.†
Chpt 10
Dr. Jordan has gone off to Toronto.†
Chpt 11
They put us into the jail in Toronto, locked up in cells, like animals in a cage, but not so close together that we could speak; and then they examined us separately.†
Chpt 11
By now I was thoroughly terrified, as I could see that feeling was running very much against me; and the jailers in Toronto made cruel jokes when they brought in my food, and said they hoped when they hanged me that the scaffold would be high, as that way they would get a good look at my ankles.†
Chpt 11
We were bound over for trial, which was not to take place until November; and so I was three weary months penned up in the Toronto jail, which was worse than being here in the Penitentiary, as I was all by myself in a cell, and people coming on the pretence of some errand or other, but really to gawk and gape.†
Chpt 11
Simon has taken the morning train for Toronto.†
Chpt 11
The train pulls into the station at Toronto, and Simon attempts to put such thoughts behind him.†
Chpt 11
I had the very experience myself, or the twin of it; for I had to pass many hours with her, in her jail cell in Toronto, while she spun out her yarn for me to as great a length as it would go.†
Chpt 12
He is talking to people in Toronto, trying to find out if I am guilty; but he won't find it out that way.†
Chpt 12

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(1) (Toronto)
largest city in Canada; in southern Canada about a ninety minute drive from Niagara Falls
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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