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Record #15822
Name :
: James STEVENS (1900 - 1915)


Father
:
Mother
:
BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 1900 (approx.)

Marriage (1)
:
Marriage (2)
:

Date of Death
: 18 Mar 1915   Notes : Suicide by Severing Artery
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Caledon
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 1912
Country
: Canada

Ship
: - Unknown -

Placement Family
: Armstrong
Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
:

Agency
: Barnardos
NotesOn March 18, 1915, James Stevens, 15, born in England, committed suicide after murdering Annie Violet Armstrong, 14, by severing her artery and then severing his own. Both died within a few minutes.

Toronto Star
Friday, March 19, 1915

MURDERED GIRL, THEN
CUT OWN THROAT

Double Tragedy on Farm Near
Orangeville -- "Home"
Boy the Slayer

Orangeville, March 19.--James Stevens, a Barnardo Home boy in the employ of Robert Armstrong, who lives three miles from here, in Caledon, murdered the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong and then cut his own throat.

Mr. Armstrong was absent at a neighboring farm, and Mrs. Armstrong was in the barn, where young Stevens was doing chores. Stevens took this opportunity of returning to the house where violet, the daughter, was. She had not yet risen. She evidently, from the appearance of the room, struggled hard for her life, and made her way downstairs and out of doors in her night dress as far as the pump where she fell and died.

Stevens cut his throat at the foot of the stairs, then walked upstairs to his bedroom where the body was found.

Mrs. Armstrong, returning to the house, saw the blood, and making her way upstairs in search of her daughter, found the body of Stevens. She then came down again and found her daughter quite dead in the snow. No one else was near the house. The only son was away at school.

No motive is known. The boy was treated as their own child, and the girl and he had always been on the best of terms. Stevens had been in Canada three years.

Toronto Star
Friday, March 26, 1915

The Jury on the murder of Annie Violet Armstrong by James Stevens, a Barnardo boy, who afterwards killed himself, near Orangeville, criticized the Barnardo Homes for lack of attention to teh habits and training of boys placed in Canadian homes. 
ContributorsCreated : 2011-12-30 22:59:32 / From original database

Last Updated : 2012-01-04 22:12:26 /

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