![]() At the age of 15 she had been living in the village when the Donnelly massacre occurred. Recently I interviewed a very elderly Toronto woman, the former Sadie Frank of Lucan, Ontario, and daughter of the late John Craven Frank. One of the mobsters said, "It began in blood, it ended in blood," and it would seem that the Donnellys of Lucan had been none too popular with their neighbors that an out-raged vigilante committee had finally accomplished its drastic purpose which - according to The Toronto Telegram of Febru- had been "to extirpate the vipers."Īnd how that kill-crazed mob had proceeded to "extirpate!" It occurred at a notorious farmhouse on a lonely sideroad, surrounded by fields "piled high with snow," while from afar the baying of a farmer's hound intermingled with whistling winds. It happened during the dark hours before the dawn of February 4, 1880, in an icy cold that would have made a Spartan sob. ![]() Canada's Most Feared Family Strikes Back from the Grave ![]()
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